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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Vishwam Sankaran

Weight of a million buildings may be causing New York to sink, study warns

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Several parts of New York appear to be sinking at the rate of one to two millimetres per year under the weight of countless skyscrapers, a new study warned.

Parts of the Big Apple, including Brooklyn, Queens and Lower Manhattan, seem to be sinking due to a geological process called subsidence in which sediments shift and settle, said the research, published recently in the journal Earth’s Future.

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