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NYC is sinking under the weight of its buildings, geologists warn
nypost.com ^ | May 17, 2023 | Alex Mitchell

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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KEYWORDS: bedrock; newyork; nyc
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To: M Kehoe

“Isn’t there a dormant fault line running through the East River.”

How can it be awakened?😎


21 posted on 05/17/2023 4:35:33 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: lowbridge

What a load of SCHIST!

(NYC is built atop a large deposit of schist rock).


22 posted on 05/17/2023 4:37:15 PM PDT by FrankRizzo890
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To: lowbridge

Global climate-sinking or sumpthin.


23 posted on 05/17/2023 4:38:45 PM PDT by Huskrrrr (Alinsky, you magnificent Bastard, I read your book!)
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To: lowbridge

A 70 foot tsunami won’t care about a millimeter or two either way.


24 posted on 05/17/2023 4:39:58 PM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: lowbridge

The place is going all to schist.


25 posted on 05/17/2023 4:41:28 PM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: lowbridge

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.


26 posted on 05/17/2023 4:43:15 PM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: lowbridge

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.


27 posted on 05/17/2023 4:45:33 PM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: lowbridge

Guam is tipping over. The sky is falling. Oh look, a talking chicken.


28 posted on 05/17/2023 4:46:26 PM PDT by SkyDancer (Hold on tight to your dream)
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To: FrankRizzo890

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.


29 posted on 05/17/2023 4:51:40 PM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: ArtDodger

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


30 posted on 05/17/2023 4:51:57 PM PDT by Roccus (Veritas, non verba magistri)
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To: lowbridge

Wait until they go all electric vehicles.


31 posted on 05/17/2023 4:56:29 PM PDT by McGruff (Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f*** things up - Barack Obama)
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To: lowbridge

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32 posted on 05/17/2023 4:58:00 PM PDT by sauropod (“If they don’t believe our lies, well, that’s just conspiracy theorist stuff, there.”)
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To: lowbridge

They should just embrace the water...become another Venice...the subways could actually have submarines...


33 posted on 05/17/2023 5:16:35 PM PDT by rottndog (What comes after America?)
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To: lowbridge

So, I guess now might be a good time to sell all my skyscrapers?


34 posted on 05/17/2023 5:30:15 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> --- )
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To: smokingfrog
So, I guess now might be a good time to sell all my skyscrapers?

Or move to the top floor.

35 posted on 05/17/2023 5:31:29 PM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn’t become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: lowbridge

If NYC sinks, NY state goes republican hahaha.


36 posted on 05/17/2023 5:43:24 PM PDT by entropy12 (Food is most popular anxiety drug, exercise is the least popular.)
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To: lowbridge

What’s the down-side?


37 posted on 05/17/2023 6:21:21 PM PDT by StAntKnee (Add your own danged sarc tag)
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To: billorites

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?


38 posted on 05/17/2023 6:52:54 PM PDT by rolling_stone
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To: Irenic

Empty buildings! Fill them up with illegals crossing the borders and homeless illegal problem solved.


39 posted on 05/17/2023 7:09:06 PM PDT by seabeeson
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To: lowbridge

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.


40 posted on 05/17/2023 7:49:38 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Procrastination is just a form of defiance.)
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