• OT: cities on the US east coast are sinking

    From Jan Panteltje@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jan 3 05:29:21 2024
    From NYC to DC and beyond, cities on the East Coast are sinking
    https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/01/240102151937.htm
    5 mm per year!

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  • From John Larkin@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jan 3 08:03:37 2024
    On Wed, 03 Jan 2024 05:29:21 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>
    wrote:

    From NYC to DC and beyond, cities on the East Coast are sinking
    https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/01/240102151937.htm
    5 mm per year!

    Mostly from drainage and pumping out groundwater.

    Parts of New Orleans are sinking at 20 mm/year. The levees keep
    Mississippi River silt from refreshing the land, and the rainwater is
    pumped out. There's no rock, so everything sits on mush.

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