(29 May 2023)
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New York - 26 March 2023
1. A bronze statue of the Archangel Gabriel blowing a trumpet stands atop the Cathedral of St. John the Divine as the sun rises in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of the borough of Manhattan
HEADLINE: Researchers say NYC is sinking
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New York - 23 May 2023
2. Lower Manhattan as seen from Governors Island
ANNOTATION: If rising oceans aren’t worry enough, add this to the risks New York City faces: The metropolis is slowly sinking into the Hudson and surrounding waters — weighed down by skyscrapers, apartment buildings, asphalt, concrete and humanity itself.
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Weehawken, New Jersey - 22 March 2023
3. Manhattan skyline during sunset
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San Francisco Bay Area - 23 May 2023
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Tom Parsons, U.S. Geological Survey:
“It's inevitable that the ground is going down, the water's coming up. At some point, those two levels will be. But I just am not able to give you a date.”
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New York - 30 October 2022
5. Fall foliage in Central Park
ANNOTATION: It could take hundreds of years before the city becomes submerged into the Atlantic Ocean, according to federal researchers who used satellite imagery and data modeling to study the unsettling news.
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San Francisco Bay Area - 23 May 2023
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Tom Parsons, U.S. Geological Survey:
"The dominant cause is the glacial effect from the last ice age that pushed down the Mid-Continent and caused a bulge along the eastern coastline. And when the ice melted, that reversed everything. So the midcontinent rising and the Eastern seaboard is sinking about 1 to 2 millimeters a year. That's the primary signal we see. But superimposed on that or other things, we have different kinds of soils across New York City, including artificial fill that can that was put in to enhance some of the land areas and that can sink just under its own weight because it's so poorly consolidated. And if you build on that, of course, that it exacerbates it. And of course, the other contribution that we we looked into in this manuscript was the the weight of the buildings themselves, the force that they applied to the ground and caused further subsidies."
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New York - 26 March 2023
7. East Harlem in the morning
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Weehawken, New Jersey - 22 March 2023
8. Manhattan skyline
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New York - 30 October 2022
9. Central Park
STORYLINE:
If rising oceans aren’t worry enough, add this to the risks New York City faces: The island metropolis is slowly sinking under the weight of its skyscrapers, homes, asphalt and humanity itself.
New research estimates that the city's landmass is sinking at an average rate of 1-2 millimeters per year, something referred to as subsidence.
That natural process happens everywhere as ground is compressed, but the study published this month in the journal Earth's Future sought to estimate how the massive weight of the city itself is hurrying things along.
More than 1 million buildings are spread across the city’s five boroughs. The research team calculated that all those structures add up to about 1.7 trillion tons of concrete, metal and glass — about the mass of 4,700 Empire State buildings — pressing down on the earth.
While the process is slow, lead researcher Tom Parsons of the U.S. Geological Survey said parts of the city will eventually be under water.
No need to invest in life preservers just yet, Parsons assured.
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