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It's not just land that's sinking, so are "infrastructure hubs," said lead author Leonard Ohenhen, a graduate student at Virginia Tech’s Earth Observation and Innovation Lab.
Brindha Shunmuganathan of Georgia was killed after a strong California wave knocked her and her daughters down last week on Pismo Beach.
Satellite images show major cities on the U.S. East Coast, including New York City, are sinking. This has caused concern among scientists.
<p>Major cities on the U.S. Atlantic coast are sinking, in some cases as much as 5 millimeters per year – a decline at the ocean’s edge that well outpaces global sea level rise, confirms new research from Virginia Tech and the U.S. Geological Survey.</p> <p>Particularly hard hit population centers such as New York City and Long Island, Baltimore, and Virginia Beach and Norfolk are seeing areas of rapid “subsidence,” or sinking land, alongside more slowly sinking or relatively stable ground, increasing the risk to roadways, runways, buil...
El Niño is sloshing the sea around. Climate change means the sea is rising. It's a bad combination for California's coast.