Earth changes: Beijing sinking four inches a year
Scientist say the sinking is related to the pumping of groundwater.
Click here for reuse options!The city sits on extensive natural reservoirs of water that are drying out through human use, causing areas to subside.
The team behind the research, which used satellite imagery for its findings, say the city’s central Chaoyang business district is among the worst-affected areas, subsiding at four inches a year.
Because different areas are sinking at different rates, the subsidence is a major threat to the city’s infrastructure and poses a particular risk to its high-speed rail network.
Copyright 2016 Liberaland
5 responses to Earth changes: Beijing sinking four inches a year
Leave a Reply
You must be logged in to post a comment.
17 June 24th, 2016 at 12:51
Nobody will care until the money goes down the drain, and now that “money” actually sits as Ones and Zeros in ivory towers, where does that leave us?
CHOCOL8MILK June 24th, 2016 at 13:57
China also has all those “Ghost Cities” ripe for a population. I’m sure the government will relocate the population as needed to those cities.
bpollen June 24th, 2016 at 16:09
Read about an instance where China had a good reason for fearing flooding. They mobilized a million people for sandbagging, etc. To me, it’s just stunning.
fahvel June 25th, 2016 at 02:52
did any of the sandbag people survive the flood?
Dwendt44 June 24th, 2016 at 17:37
As an aside, some of the rabid critics of ‘climate change’ that denied the sea level was rising justified that by saying the land was sinking. Any thing to dispute the obvious.