Mexico City Is Sinking at an Alarming And Largely Unstoppable Rate, New Data Finds

[jeffreyi]

"Mexico City, the most populous metropolis in North America, has sunk too low for us to save it, according to new research.

After centuries of water drainage from underground aquifers, the lake bed on which this city sits has grown increasingly dry, causing the clay sheets to compress and crack at a largely unstoppable rate."



https://www.sciencealert.com/mexico-city-is-sinking-at-an-alarming-and-largely-unstoppable-rate-according-to-data

[world wide wally]

1. Over a foot a year?!!

Yikes!
That is scary

[Random Boomer]

2. This is not exactly news

Mexico City has been sinking for the past century. The rate of sink may be getting worse, but the downward trend has long been inescapable.