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title: The German Town That’s Literally Breaking Apart — HIGH T3CH
url: https://hight3ch.com/the-german-town-thats-literally-breaking-apart/
date: 2017-11-20
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# The German Town That’s Literally Breaking Apart

The town of Staufen, in the south-west of Germany, has a problem: a drilling operation in 2007 that went very wrong. Half a metre of movement might not sound like much, but in this town, that’s enough for the buildings to crack and fall apart.