3NUMBAS Posted April 29, 2014 Share Posted April 29, 2014 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/scientists-warn-that-land-subsidence-is-a-more-immediate-threat-to-the-worlds-coastal-megacites-than-climate-change-9302052.html quote Real-life Atlantis? The world's megacities that are sinking 10 times faster than water levels are risingScientists have issued a new warning to the world’s coastal megacities that the threat from subsiding land is a more immediate problem than rising sea levels caused by global warming. A new paper from the Deltares Research Institute in the Netherlands published earlier this month identified regions of the globe where the ground level is falling 10 times faster than water levels are rising - with human activity often to blame. In Jakarta, Indonesia’s largest city, the population has grown from around half a million in the 1930s to just under 10 million today, with heavily populated areas dropping by as much as six and a half feet as groundwater is pumped up from the Earth to drink. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MB1 Posted April 29, 2014 Share Posted April 29, 2014 It must be the weight of the people that are causing the singage then, half a mill in the 30's and ten mill today in Jakarta and maybe they eat fat Mcdonalds which adds to the weight of ten million people, surely it must be obese people that is causing the world to sink... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeverSure Posted April 29, 2014 Share Posted April 29, 2014 Gee, if my house sinks about 1650 feet (about 500 meters) I'll have river frontage instead of a view. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benalibina Posted April 29, 2014 Share Posted April 29, 2014 It must be the weight of the people that are causing the singage then, half a mill in the 30's and ten mill today in Jakarta and maybe they eat fat Mcdonalds which adds to the weight of ten million people, surely it must be obese people that is causing the world to sink...I read a lot of stereotyping on this forum about the typical expat living here. Fat...comes to mind. Guess that it doesnt help...anyway a valid reason for many thais to openly show their dislike of foreigners and blame them for above mentioned problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JO1973 Posted April 30, 2014 Share Posted April 30, 2014 It must be the weight of the people that are causing the singage then, half a mill in the 30's and ten mill today in Jakarta and maybe they eat fat Mcdonalds which adds to the weight of ten million people, surely it must be obese people that is causing the world to sink...I read a lot of stereotyping on this forum about the typical expat living here. Fat...comes to mind. Guess that it doesnt help...anyway a valid reason for many thais to openly show their dislike of foreigners and blame them for above mentioned problem. Sure, blame the foreigners -- it truly can't be anyone else's problem! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JO1973 Posted April 30, 2014 Share Posted April 30, 2014 It must be the weight of the people that are causing the singage then, half a mill in the 30's and ten mill today in Jakarta and maybe they eat fat Mcdonalds which adds to the weight of ten million people, surely it must be obese people that is causing the world to sink...I read a lot of stereotyping on this forum about the typical expat living here. Fat...comes to mind. Guess that it doesnt help...anyway a valid reason for many thais to openly show their dislike of foreigners and blame them for above mentioned problem. Sure, blame the foreigners -- it truly can't be anyone else's problem! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSPS Posted April 30, 2014 Share Posted April 30, 2014 It couldn't have anything to do with the fact that many cities, like Bangkok, were built on swamps, could it? Then there's the amount of excavation for buildings, subways etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CharlieH Posted April 30, 2014 Share Posted April 30, 2014 Its not just the excavation, look how dense the building structures are, how high they now go, the shear weight of all those structures concentrated in small areas is bound to have an effect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosmo88 Posted April 30, 2014 Share Posted April 30, 2014 The article mentions "parts of Bangkok". Anyone know which parts might be at highest and lowest risk? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
celso Posted April 30, 2014 Share Posted April 30, 2014 The article mentions "parts of Bangkok". Anyone know which parts might be at highest and lowest risk? Without wanting to sound obvious, I think its the parts that got flooded in 2011. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marko kok prong Posted April 30, 2014 Share Posted April 30, 2014 The paper talks about cities mainly located on swampy river delta's,Dhaka,Bangkok,ho chi min,Jakarta and New Orleans,of course this is risky but if you think back to the old Bangkok it would have been light weight wooden houses for the most part,the same for all these places,so not much of a problem,unfortunatley this has been replaced by heavy concrete which has caused the problem,i beleive also the filling in of many of the Klongs in Bangkok contributes to flooding,sure if sea levels rise as predicted by some many parts of Bangkok could be permanently flooded,of course nothing will be done until it is too late. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thaiready Posted April 30, 2014 Share Posted April 30, 2014 Global Warming.......give me a break. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enuff said Posted April 30, 2014 Share Posted April 30, 2014 . Oh BOY! Can't wait to get me a condo right downtown. ~ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3NUMBAS Posted April 30, 2014 Author Share Posted April 30, 2014 when you see piles being sunk for a mighty condo theres a load of sludge being sucked up from the holes not much site of any bedrock or hard core Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HannahD Posted April 30, 2014 Share Posted April 30, 2014 The depth of the clay layer over the Bangkok area is estimated to range from 550 meters to 2000 meters according to Engineering Properties of Bangkok Clay by S. Shibuya and S.B. Tamrakar. As the area subsides and the sea rises will this clay turn to soup and swallow Bangkok? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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