Chicago sinking?

[Amoraq]

   I found this article in the news.


Scientists Say Chicago Sinking Every Year

CHICAGO (May 20) - Shifting land caused by the melting of Canadian glaciers causes Chicago to sink at the rate of about a millimeter a year, a Northwestern University study has found.

The shift also causes water in the Great Lakes to slosh from the upper Great Lakes into their lower reaches.


It's not Chicagoans' fondness for Bratwurst that's sinking the city, it's glacial activity to the north.  
 
The study was done by researchers at Northwestern University with collaborators around the U.S. and Canada. It was presented Wednesday at a joint meeting in Montreal of the American and Canadian Geophysical Unions.

Scientists used 10 years of readings from global positioning satellites at more than 200 points across North America to determine the shift.

"All of Canada's going up," said Seth Stein, a Northwestern professor of geological sciences who helped organize the study. "The U.S. is going down."

The reason lies far beneath the Earth's surface, in a mantle of semimolten rock. More than 20,000 years ago, the weight of glacial ice sheets created depressions in the Earth.

When the ice began to melt around 12,000 years ago, the land returned to its original shape, forcing some areas to sink and others to rise, like a seesaw, scientists said.

Regions south of the U.S.-Canadian border are generally sinking, while regions north of the border are generally rising, the study found.

 
At the same time, water has been tipped toward Chicago beaches, as well as rivers and marshes all over the northern United States.

"Water is moving from the Canadian side, slowly but surely, to the U.S. side," said Chuck South of Environment Canada, which monitors water levels in the Great Lakes. "Over a century, it's got quite an effect."


I don't think it is that serious.
So what do you think?
 

[Trogdor 22]

 Egads! Haul out the SCUBA gear boys, get in the boat!
Pssh! Wow, a millimeter every year! :rolleyes:

"All of Canada's going up," "The U.S. is going down."

An omen, maybe?

[Juby (Tercios)]

 heh, I wonder what the range for human error is, I bet it's like give or take a couple millimeters  :lol:  

[Amoraq]

 Yah I know. But they are making a big deal of it. So I wanted to see what other people think.

[IFman]

 Chicago will be 1st to sink when the US does. I predict around  March 16 2018 it will sink

[Amoraq]

 

Chicago will be 1st to sink when the earth does. I predict around March 16 2018 it will sink

So how did you figure that out, or did you get it from someone else?

[Juby (Tercios)]

 isn't venice sinking faster than that Iffy?

[IFman]

 ooops, left out "in the US

[Aqualis]

 
Salt will give you a heart attack!
Meat is bad for you!


In other words, no, I don't believe it.

[Ashyra Nightwing]

 Sinking? O.o that's... odd.

[Scarwake]

 I don't think its true, just because it mentioned Bratwursts in there, and it has no relevance to the whole story.

[General Austin]

 Just because the author writes strangely doesn't mean his story is false.. :blink:  

[IFman]

 *reminds him of what he learned in history yesturday*
Yesturday I learned that the mayans thought that "the end of the world" is on
Sunday December 23rd 2012.

strange

[sanaru]

 hello