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- Cities all over the world, including on the coast of the eastern and Gulf of the United States, are drowned.
- This phenomenon, which is called landing, can make severe floods worse and infrastructure damage.
- From New York to Houston, these 13 cities lose altitude every year.
Cities all over the United States, some of them in some millimeters every year, while others lose up to six millimeters per year.
Manoshir Sherzai, a geophysic scientist in Virginia Tech, said he participated in authored a Ticket It was published in nature in March, which measures a decline in 32 coastal cities in the United States.
Drowning can come from the huge weight of skyscrapers and infrastructure, or from people who paint water from under the ground. Some of them are the remains of the last ice age.
Coastal cities around the world are already vulnerable to catastrophic floods with high sea levels due to the climate crisis. A worker in drowning, and the world’s weakness for coastal floods in the future, according to 2019 Ticket.
In the United States, sea level rise can offer 109 billion dollars of coastal property of high -layer floods by 2050, according to Sherzai accounts.
The good news is that there are relatively inexpensive solutions to landing.
“The main fast food is that we still have enough time to manage this danger,” he said.
Below is the largest cities that sink more, according to its new studies, in the geographical system starting from the northeastern coast.
Boston, Massachusetts
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Sherzai and his participating authors found that there are many differences in a decline throughout Boston. When drowning occurs at different rates of such such, it can put additional pressure on the infrastructure.
For example, some Boston areas flood about 1 millimeter annually, give or take. Others drown nearly 4 millimeters annually – which translates into approximately 4 centimeters in the nodes.
New York City
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Big Apple loses about 1.5 mm of height each year.
All three airports in the New York City area are also sinking, according to Ticket Participated in the composition of Shirzaei in 2024. JFK drowning about 1.7 mm per year, Laguardia at 1.5 mm per year, and Newark Airport holds 1.4 mm per year.
For one, Laguardia has installed water pumps, bones, flood walls, and flood doors. former Estimates If Lacardia had overwhelmed the month by 2050 and fully succeeded by the year 2100 – this is without landing.
Jersey City, New Jersey
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Through the Hudson River, Jersey City is about 1.5 millimeters per year.
To measure drowning at this granular level, Sherzai and its participating authors have deformed ground satellite technology called Insar (short of the artificial aperture radar overlap).
Atlantic city, New Jersey
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Soon after the south, Atlantic City beat its neighbors by about 2.8 millimeters annually.
Part of the landing of the eastern coast is the reaction of the remnants of the disappearance of the ice cover of Lorentide, which covered many North America during the last ice age. The largest part of the ice cover causes exposed land swelling around its edges to the top-and the Atlantic medium region is still settling from the decline in the ice cover.
Virginia Beach, Virginia
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Virginia Beach, Virginia, drown 2.2 mm per year. Meanwhile, sea level rise has become an increased concern for the local population.
In 2021, the population voted for a program worth $ 568 million to build the infrastructure guarded against sea level rise, according to L. PBS News.
Charleston, South Carolina
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Charleston is the most populated city in South Carolina and its center in a peninsula surrounded by the Ashley and the Cooper River. The city is generally drowned at an average rate of 2.2 millimeters annually, although in some areas more dramatic at a rate of 6 millimeters annually.
Savana, Georgia
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Savana loses approximately 2 millimeters annually, although some areas flood up to 5 millimeters annually.
More than 13,000 drugs in Safana are at risk of floods over the next thirty years, according to the Climate Risk Analysis Group. This is more than 23 % of all homes in the city.
Miami
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Last year, a study found that the high luxury was slowly drowning on the barrier islands surrounding Miami, perhaps due to the vibration of the near construction. Shirzaei found that the main mainland drowns, too, by about half a millimeter every year.
Mobile phone, Alabama
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Mobile loses 1.87 mm annually. The city of the Gulf Coast faces some of the highest amount of rain in the United States, according to The official website of the cityAnd all residents are encouraged to obtain disasters survival groups, including canned foods and electrical lamps, at hand in the event of an emergency in the floods.
Peloxi, Mississippi
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Biloxi has the most landmark in all American cities that shirzaei team. On the whole, Biloxi drowns about 5.6 millimeters per year, with a lot of contrast. Some parts of the city may flood up to 10 millimeters annually.
New Orleans
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New Orleans loses 1.3 mm per year. First Street stated that 99.6 % of all real estate in the city is at risk of flooding in the next thirty years.
Houston and Galviestone, Texas
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Shirzaei found that Galveston, Texas, sink more than 4 millimeters annually, but the inner parts of Houston have been drowning for decades due to the extraction of groundwater.
Corpus Christie, Texas
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Corpus Christi sinks approximately 3 millimeters annually. Some researchers believe that dug oil and local gas has contributed to a decline, The Kiiv local ABC port was reported
“Extracting, in general, we believe that it begins and stimulates the movement around faults and can start land landing in some areas,” said Mohamed Ahmed, a professor of geophysics at Texas A &M Corpus Christi.
What about the West Coast?
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The Shirzaei team did not find a lot of landing in the coastal cities in California, although the state’s internal central valley is drowning due to the extraction of groundwater.
As for Oregon and Washington, researchers simply do not have good data so far they say what is happening on the ground there.