KHON has this really interesting story that seeks to answer the question, coming on the heels of the Florida sinkhole that suddenly opened up and swallowed a man inside his house this week.

Reporter Marisa Yamane interviewed a University of Hawaii expert on sinkholes. Turns out Hawaii has had a few of its own and has a similar limestone underpinning.

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