and San Jose and Long Beach, Calif., are already below sea level, but they are still inhabited cities and not Atlantises. To protect Manhattan's 29-mile waterfront from a one-foot rise would cost just $30
some of the deepest trenches in the world are found in the area of the Bermuda Triangle, including the Puerto Rico Trench, which goes down to 27,500 feet (8,229 meters) below sea level. Ships or planes that sink into these
As the ground becomes saturated from rising seas and bigger storms, the land begins to sink, cave in, submerge... and it doesn't matter what or who is on top. Houses go under, building go under, cars fall in, people disappear into the abyss. When New York built their subway system ...
of the workers at 2 in the morning dumping — not only dumping barrels off of the barges in the middle of the Santa Monica Basin,” he said, “but before they would dump the barrels, they would take a big ax or hatchet to them, and cut them open on purpose so they would sink.”...
Ships or planes that sink into these deep trenches will probably never be found [source: Mayell]. Other possible environmental effects include underwater earthquakes, as scientists have found a great deal of seismic activity in the area. Back in 1817, a 7.4 earthquake at the northern end of ...
Ships or planes that sink into these deep trenches will probably never be found [source: Mayell]. Other possible environmental effects include underwater earthquakes, as scientists have found a great deal of seismic activity in the area. Back in 1817, a 7.4 earthquake at the northern end of ...