Sahwa@reddthat.com to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoMexico City is sinking so fast that the subsidence can be spotted from spacewww.independent.co.ukexternal-linkmessage-square26fedilinkarrow-up1150arrow-down12
arrow-up1148arrow-down1external-linkMexico City is sinking so fast that the subsidence can be spotted from spacewww.independent.co.ukSahwa@reddthat.com to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square26fedilink
minus-squareSCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·edit-22 months agoConsistently multiple inches a year is actually insane One must pose the question, then: …Where is it going? Edit: thinks about tectonic plates … Oh no…
minus-squarestoly@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·2 months agoIn this case it’s compressing because the water has been drained. It used to be a lake. Same problem in New Orleans.
minus-squareSCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 months agoAhhhh… That’s better than a gap in the earth opening and sending one of the largest cities on earth between tectonic plates to basically hell
minus-squaremlg@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoIt’s gonna sink like the artifact from Indiana Jones and cause the Yellowstone supervolcano to erupt lol
Consistently multiple inches a year is actually insane
One must pose the question, then:
…Where is it going?
Edit: thinks about tectonic plates … Oh no…
In this case it’s compressing because the water has been drained. It used to be a lake. Same problem in New Orleans.
Ahhhh… That’s better than a gap in the earth opening and sending one of the largest cities on earth between tectonic plates to basically hell
It’s gonna sink like the artifact from Indiana Jones and cause the Yellowstone supervolcano to erupt lol