Talento Posted May 18, 2023 Posted May 18, 2023 New York City is sinking due to the weights of its skyscrapers, according to a study published in the journal Earth's Future. The study compared satellite data to the geology beneath Manhattan and it showed that the city is collapsing into the earth. NYC is sinking at a rate of 1-2 millimeters per year due to the weight of it's highrise buildings. Although this may not seem like an alarming rate, some parts of the city are subsiding significantly faster than others. This is on par with the fastest understood rates at which tectonic plates rebound when glaciers melt. The cumulative mass of more than 1 million buildings in NYC works out to be 1.68 trillion pounds. This only includes the mass of the buildings and their contents, not roads, sidewalks or railways. “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. https://nypost.com/2023/05/17/nyc-is-sinking-under-the-weight-of-its-buildings-geologists/amp/
imabadkid Posted May 18, 2023 Posted May 18, 2023 omw that leaves Chicago, LA, Boston or DC as the next culture epicenter... RIP Miss New York </3
MingYouToo Posted May 18, 2023 Posted May 18, 2023 shes tanking on the BMI scale i fear, miss skinny angeles can't relate!
Steve Johnson Posted May 18, 2023 Posted May 18, 2023 6 minutes ago, MingYouToo said: miss skinny angeles can't relate! Sure
Jude Posted May 18, 2023 Posted May 18, 2023 Yet people won't stop buying 2 bedroom apartments worth $10M.
WEEKND Posted May 18, 2023 Posted May 18, 2023 45 minutes ago, Sept said: 1mm per year, so 1 metre in.... 1000 years Yeah that doesn’t concern us
nadiamendell Posted May 18, 2023 Posted May 18, 2023 58 minutes ago, imabadkid said: omw that leaves Chicago, LA, Boston or DC as the next culture epicenter... RIP Miss New York </3 Chicago is already the best city in the US.
Saintlor Posted May 18, 2023 Posted May 18, 2023 AI will be able to fix this long before it becomes an urgent problem
shinyshimmery Posted May 18, 2023 Posted May 18, 2023 It's the perfect time to buy a high floor apartment in NYC <3 the poors could never
BionicWooHoo Posted May 18, 2023 Posted May 18, 2023 29 minutes ago, nadiamendell said: Chicago is already the best city in the US. How can someone be so wrong yet so brave, truly inspiring
Swirl900 Posted May 18, 2023 Posted May 18, 2023 While interesting - this isnt that much tbh. Places like Jakarta are sinking like 10cm a year which is 100x faster. I think sea level rise will play a much bigger role for everyone way before something like this could affect things.
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