NYC Is Sinking 1-2mm every year (an inch every 12-24 years)

[Economy 42,936]

https://phys.org/news/2023-05-york-weight.html

 

A study has found that NYC is sinking an average of 1-2 millimetres every year (which adds up to an inch every 12-24 years)

 

The 2 main reasons for this are natural tectonic shifts, and the heavy weight of the city that amplifies that ground movements downwards

 

The sinking of the city adds to the issue of low sea level as the sea level itself rises although sea level rise is still the bigger of the two issues as the sea is rising faster than the city is sinking

 

Investments are being made in Sea walls  and enhanced sewage systems to try to protect the city from the ocean

[LateToCult 33,506]

It’s curtains for the rats at Joanne Trattoria!

[MonsterJay 1,471]

Rain on me.. Tsunami…?

[Economy 42,936]

1 hour ago, LateToCult said:

It’s curtains for the rats at Joanne Trattoria!

My brain is slow this morning... I don't get the joke/reference

[Better Day 5,713]

I will be dead when it fully sinks, not my problem. 

[Economy 42,936]

5 minutes ago, Better Day said:

I will be dead when it fully sinks, not my problem. 

How empathetic of u

[Better Day 5,713]

37 minutes ago, Economy said:

How empathetic of u

Well, I won’t have children and not even from the US. 

[RAMROD 90,209]

New York City is sinking in part due to the extraordinary weight of its vertiginous buildings, worsening the flooding threat posed to the metropolis from the rising seas, new research has found.

The Big Apple may be the city that never sleeps but it is a city that certainly sinks, subsiding by approximately 1-2mm each year on average, with some areas of New York City plunging at double this rate, according to researchers.

This sinking is exacerbating the impact of sea level rise which is accelerating at around twice the global average as the world’s glaciers melt away and seawater expands due to global heating. The water that flanks New York City has risen by about 9in, or 22cm, since 1950 and major flooding events from storms could be up to four times more frequent than now by the end of the century due to the combination of sea level rise and hurricanes strengthened by climate change.

The authors added that the risks faced by New York City will be shared by many other coastal cities around the world as the climate crisis deepens. “The combination of tectonic and anthropogenic subsidence, sea level rise, and increasing hurricane intensity imply an accelerating problem along coastal and riverfront areas,” they wrote.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/19/new-york-city-sinking-skyscrapers-climate-crisis

 

 

[nkta 142]

So, how soon will it disappear under water at current pace?

[Illuminati 15,002]

A disaster, where will the rats go

[Pop a 911 3,416]

8 minutes ago, Illuminati said:

A disaster, where will the rats go

Gags kitchen 

[Controversiaga 4,542]

1 hour ago, nkta said:

So, how soon will it disappear under water at current pace?

Probably more than another 1000 years 

[Better Day 5,713]

1 hour ago, ControversiaGa said:

Probably more than another 1000 years 

So essentially nothing to worry about. Our great grandchildren great grand children will be dead and forgotten by that time. 

Edited June 5 by Better Day

[Lukasson 360]

5 hours ago, Better Day said:

Well, I won’t have children and not even from the US. 

Haha Q. E. D.

Please look up the word empathy in a dictionary.

[Better Day 5,713]

6 minutes ago, Lukasson said:

Haha Q. E. D.

Please look up the word empathy in a dictionary.

The species that will exist in 1000 years simply will not be homosapiens who would probably eat us in our current state.