Ping!
Maybe it's all those baby girls they've tossed into the Yangtze and buried alive.
I fail to see why. A little learning is a dangerous thing.
I can see every fruitcake from Toledo to Timbuktu going off their meds long enough to claim that it's global warming... or CO2 emmisions... or too much silica... or deforestation in South America... the usual litany of tiny people without a clue of the magnitude of geologic and solar system precesses, never mind cosmic ones.
China has no more control over this type of Gaia hissy fits than the U.S.A. does. I can think of other reasons that will be screamed out incoherently and in the usual panic, but suffice to say we are sharing a curious and unexpected phenomenon. I am looking forward to discussing it with the more rational members of the human race.
The article doesn't seem to go into the cause of it. Is it because they're overpumping the ground water?
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Cities sinking due to excessive pumping of groundwater
An excerpt:
Surface subsidence picked up speed over the last two decades as a result of an increasing demand for groundwater caused by fast economic growth and urbanization, pollution of surface water and the construction of skyscrapers, analysts note.
Interesting.
It seems that Beijing has a number of problems.
I read an article awhile back that stated if the Chicom government fails to stop the desertification process that is taking place to the north, they may have to end up relocating the capital city.
The desertification is the cause of the horrible brown cloud (dust cloud) that engulfs Beijing from time to time. If I remember right, I think I read something about it crossing the Pacific last year and hitting parts of the Western United States.
"It cited one incident in 1998 where a crack caused by sinking ground had forced a rubber factory in the capital's Shunyi district to stop production. The crack is now about 800m-wide and 25km-long."
Anyone else call BS on this. A chasm 800 meters wide?? that's half a mile lol.