Which U.S. Cities Are Sinking And How Much It Will Cost To Stop Them?

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The land below many U.S. cities is sinking. Known as land subsidence, this natural and man-made phenomenon can have a direct effect on home values and put critical infrastructure such as railroads and airports in danger. Luckily, some land subsidence can be reversed. “It’s not cheap and it’s not easy. But we have tools in our toolbox that can implement that and see the results in … months or years,” said Manoochehr Shirzaei, professor of geophysics and remote sensing at Virginia Tech.

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0:00 Introduction
1:43 Infrastructure and homes at risk
3:50 Causes
5:39 Solutions

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Which U.S. Cities Are Sinking And How Much It Will Cost To Stop Them?
コメント (21)
  • @shiftymcgee9359
    Meh. If I know my country, the US and its people will ignore this until it’s too late.
  • @OptimumSlinky
    It's almost as people should have listened to the scientists warning about this for last the 40 years, or paid attention to all of the insurance companies pulling out of at-risk markets, and not waited until the last, most expensive minute...
  • @kevinthompson2111
    My House is in Miami i have lost more then 3 feet of my yard and im not on the the beach im near the everglades😅
  • @Raspaholic_DBF
    san antonio and austin about to become beach cities 💀
  • @malav_patel
    I was not mentally prepared to know the city I bought a house in just a week ago is sinking......God hates me
  • @mmane257
    me in new orleans watching this.sounds like a bad outcome for me in the dirty south.
  • @lesliemoore1656
    I do know that Louisiana has always had this issue and they called engineers from the Netherlands for help with their problems. Another reason for this are these are large coastal cities with a lot of weight on land plus erosion. I live about 90 min from the Gulf Coast in a small town. No one wants to live on or too near the coast because of the cost and all the many issues that go with a coastal home, we have seen it for many decades.
  • @MissEtak87
    Sorry, thought this was about global warming melting the ice caps which will cover land with water. I look at the draining of the aquifers close to the ocean as a political/business strategy for the upcoming polar ice cap issue.
  • @quikslvr01
    we cant fix homelessness and you think government and our taxes can fix this. 😂
  • @gqrob28
    Hmmm? I just went out to a pier and boat ramp here in San Diego that has been here for 62 years, and no change in water depth at all except for usual tidal changes. This CNBC report is complete BS!