New York is Sinking Disaster Like Joshimath Says Nasa Study

The news of the ancient and well-known city of Uttarakhand ‘Joshimath’ shocked everyone a few months ago. A similar situation is happening in the American city of New York (New York is Sinking). A US space agency NASA (NASA) Report It is said that the city of York is slowly being pressed due to its weight. In the report, the reason for the sinking of New York is stated to both human and natural. Scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Rutgers University identified several areas of the city in their study between 2016 and 2023, which are collapsing. For this, remote sensing technology called interferometric synthetic aperture radar (Insar) was used.

The report says that Lagardia’s runway in New York is pressing at the rate of 3.7 mm annually, while Arthur Ash Stadium is pressing at the rate of 4.6 mm annually. Both areas are built at the place where there used to be the first Landfill site.

The report also said that due to increasing sea water level, the risk of sinking of New York city is increasing. Not only this, this city may face storm and floods in future. The study has revealed that the areas of the city are sinking, where there have been changes related to the surface of the earth in the past. The construction of the building there increased the pressure on the land.

The cause of the collapse of the city areas is also considered to be thousands of years of natural processes of the ice age. It is said about the city of York that it is on the ground raised outside the snow sheet. The study states that the metropolitan area of ​​the city is going to collapse about 1.6 mm every year.

The interesting thing is that some areas have also been detected in the study which are rising up instead of sinking. These include Eastern Williamsburg, Brooklyn and Woodside, Queens. Why this is happening, it is being ascertained.