Posted on 05/17/2023 4:12:42 PM PDT by lowbridge
The city that never sinks?
New geological research warns that the weight of New York City’s skyscrapers is actually causing the Big Apple — whose more than 1 million buildings weigh nearly 1.7 trillion pounds — to sink lower into its surrounding bodies of water.
The city is plopping closer to the water at a rate of 1 to 2 millimeters a year, “with some areas subsiding much faster.”
While that may not seem significant to untrained eyes, the gradual descent makes NYC extremely vulnerable to natural disasters, according to lead researcher and geologist Tom Parsons of the United States Geological Survey.
Lower Manhattan is particularly at risk, and there is concern for both Brooklyn and Queens as well, according to the study.
“New York faces significant challenges from flood hazard; the threat of sea level rise is 3 to 4 times higher than the global average along the Atlantic coast of North America … A deeply concentrated population of 8.4 million people faces varying degrees of hazard from inundation in New York City,” he and his team wrote in the new report.
The city has already seen these harsh effects starting more than a decade ago.
“Two recent hurricanes caused casualties and heavy damage in New York City,” he wrote. “In 2012, Hurricane Sandy forced sea water into the city, whereas heavy rainfall from Hurricane Ida in 2021 overwhelmed drainage systems because of heavy runoff within the mostly paved city.”
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“Isn’t there a dormant fault line running through the East River.”
How can it be awakened?😎
What a load of SCHIST!
(NYC is built atop a large deposit of schist rock).
Global climate-sinking or sumpthin.
A 70 foot tsunami won’t care about a millimeter or two either way.
The place is going all to schist.
Well, it doesn’t matter. According to the climate czar Kerry, the whole world’s coastal cities will be under water in just a few years anyhow.
I remember reading in some amazing-facts thing when I was a kid that the weight of the dirt and rock excavated to build NYC exceeds the weight of the buildings themselves. No idea if that’s true or not.
Guam is tipping over. The sky is falling. Oh look, a talking chicken.
Yeah, I don’t think you are going to compress metamorphic rock. It has already been into the bowels of the earth. Nice try, though “geologists.” I have worked with similar morons in the past. Dry hole, dry hole, dry hole.
Odd, since there used to be a rather heavy structure there before the library.
https://gothamist.com/arts-entertainment/this-massive-reservoir-used-to-be-in-midtown
Wait until they go all electric vehicles.
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They should just embrace the water...become another Venice...the subways could actually have submarines...
So, I guess now might be a good time to sell all my skyscrapers?
Or move to the top floor.
If NYC sinks, NY state goes republican hahaha.
What’s the down-side?
First Guam capsizes, now NYC sinks.
beat me to it....we would miss Guam but not NYC how about
DC can something happen to them?
Empty buildings! Fill them up with illegals crossing the borders and homeless illegal problem solved.
Oh my! Oh noes! What will we do? What will we do?
Is there nothing safe? /s
The Long Island Schist is harder than a whores heart. It doesn’t settle.
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