Image from space shows downtown San Francisco sinking slowly around Millennium Tower. - nbcbayarea
Oakland Police Officers Leaving the Struggling Department for Others Across the Bay Area: Police Union
He says all the buildings downtown likely weigh enough to exert sufficient downward force to influence an earthquake fault. Fortunately, the San Andreas fault runs offshore before it reaches the city. So, he says, the billions of extra pounds will not likely have seismic implications. “If you have a series of buildings, fairly heavy buildings all clustered together, they're going to influence each other,” said Harry Poulos, an internationally recognized expert on tall building foundations. He says while there may be no seismic concern for San Francisco, there’s been little research about the collective impact of entire corridors of high rises on the earth below.
Parsons says he’s now studying Manhattan, because it is also sinking and faces the same threat as San Francisco from climate change. Parsons points out that ground level and sea level heading in opposite directions is a dangerous scenario for coastal cities.
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