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Why are 46 cities in China sinking?
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Posted on 06/25/2016 3:26:23 PM PDT by Java4Jay

According to the Chinese government, 46 cities across China are sinking into the ground. In the last decade alone, Beijing has sunk 14 inches. The city continues to sink at a rate of nearly 11 centimeters per year.

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To: Java4Jay
And there are other cities which are exploring potential solutions, including Mexico City, which is sinking even faster than Beijing, at a rate of 28 centimeters per year.

But Mexico city starts sinking at 7,359 feet. Beijing is at 171 feet!

41 posted on 06/25/2016 4:19:29 PM PDT by JimRed (Is it 1776 yet? TERM LIMITS, now and forever! Build the Wall, NOW!)
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To: Calvin Locke

NO!!!!! Good Lord.


42 posted on 06/25/2016 4:19:45 PM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: shibumi

+1


43 posted on 06/25/2016 4:19:51 PM PDT by Carriage Hill ( Peace is that brief glorious moment in history, when everybody stands around reloading.)
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To: MUDDOG
Wi Tu Lo.

LOL!

See Ri Zing.

Ho Lee Shet.

LOL

44 posted on 06/25/2016 4:19:56 PM PDT by Lazamataz (Hillary: "Weapons of war have no place on our streets."... Laz: "Muslims are weapons of war.")
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To: dp0622
i’m ignorant on this subject, and many others :) How serious is this? Will it get much worse? Why isn’t it happening to us or is it? Is there a way to stop it?

Basically, look at the author's name:

Wi R. Zo Scruut

45 posted on 06/25/2016 4:20:56 PM PDT by Lazamataz (Hillary: "Weapons of war have no place on our streets."... Laz: "Muslims are weapons of war.")
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To: Java4Jay
Too many people in the middle ... and if they were to shift to one side, the damned thing will tip over !

I TELL ya ... what's a social engineer to DO ?

46 posted on 06/25/2016 4:24:07 PM PDT by knarf
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To: MUDDOG

Exactly.


47 posted on 06/25/2016 4:24:42 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: Java4Jay

I heard a report today that said Guam tipped over.

I’ll try and confirm it...

5.56mm


48 posted on 06/25/2016 4:24:42 PM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: Java4Jay
This sinking phenomenon, called subsidence, has a number of causes.

crisis + scare tactics + exaggerations + dishonesty + disregard for freedom and natural rights = need for environmentalism, socialism, and other libtard solutions

49 posted on 06/25/2016 4:26:13 PM PDT by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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To: Java4Jay

Yo!

China is goin’ DOWNNNN!


50 posted on 06/25/2016 4:27:31 PM PDT by Maelstrom (To prevent misinterpretation or abuse of the Constitution:The Bill of Rights limits government power)
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To: Bryanw92

You’re wrong, it’s guns. We need gun control to stop the sinking. I thing that it is all due to the lead bullets.


51 posted on 06/25/2016 4:28:16 PM PDT by DeSoto
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To: Lazamataz

Lack of nookie
no assatall


52 posted on 06/25/2016 4:28:22 PM PDT by GregB (Prayers for Griffin.)
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To: Java4Jay

Sinking Feeling

Róisín Murphy

Deep in
Quick sand
You dive in
At the shallow end
You break your
Neck and
You’re never ever gonna get up again

The glass house that you lived in
Is deep in the quickening
Angels might call by
But fools they rush in
Bring some peace to your mind

For today is a new day
Here in my hand
Time is just sand
Fine lines of love and hate
There on your face

But I look at this way
In the next seven days
In the next
It might just change

How can I write
The story that
Went and wrote itself
Down on paperback
Called “the foutain of know thyself”

It’s a lonely book
Still upon the shelf
It’ll be all smiles
And we’ll rise and ride
On the waves of a sinking feeling


53 posted on 06/25/2016 4:28:55 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: dp0622
According to some sites, Mt Everest is growing by about 2.5" a year.

On another front The 3 Gorges Dam, the largest in the world, the reservoir has triggered numerous seismic activity, because of the weight of the water.

54 posted on 06/25/2016 4:30:15 PM PDT by mountn man (The Pleasure You Get From Life, Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
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To: plain talk

Mexico City was built on a lakebed.


55 posted on 06/25/2016 4:30:18 PM PDT by zek157
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To: Java4Jay

sinking because the earth sucks. . . .


56 posted on 06/25/2016 4:30:56 PM PDT by Godzilla (3/7/77)
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To: Lazamataz

Pe King?

No. Sin King.


57 posted on 06/25/2016 4:31:18 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: bigbob

Actually the Asian continent is sucking the Indian continent


58 posted on 06/25/2016 4:31:29 PM PDT by mountn man (The Pleasure You Get From Life, Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
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To: Java4Jay

Let the fastest sinking one be Yulin.


59 posted on 06/25/2016 4:42:57 PM PDT by MarMema (`)
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To: Java4Jay

Sedimentary consolidation...


60 posted on 06/25/2016 4:57:23 PM PDT by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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