Early estimates put it at 20ft (6m) deep and 30ft in diameter but officials have created a 100ft-wide safety zone fearing the top of the sinkhole is growing.

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In the mid-1980s the smallest features on chips were 1 to 2 microns wide, about one hundredth the diameter of a human hair.

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