For an even more urgent example of this in action right now, see how Mexico City is currently sinking at an incredible rate: https://www.washingtonpost.com/clim

For an even more urgent example of this in action right now, see how Mexico City is currently sinking at an incredible rate: https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/06/04/mexico-city-sinking-water-crisis/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/06/0... "Some areas in Mexico City are slipping as fast as 20 inches a year in recent decades, according to researchers. Overall, the clay layers under the soil have compressed by 17 percent in the last century. A culprit for the uneven sinking in Mexico City, researchers say, is pumping water from underground. The water extraction enables the porous soil to compact and depress. Because more than half of the city’s water supply comes from underground aquifers, its leaders have struggled to tackle the problem. Most of this sinking, the researchers say, is irreversible because the Earth is still compacting and responding to the ways water was drained a long time ago. Cabral-Cano and his colleagues project the land is going to sink another 100 feet over the next 150 years."