American Cities Sinking Into the Ground — Land Subsidence Explained

Added: 2026-05-23

[00:00:00]Parts of Houston are sinking 2 in every single year. It's not just Houston. New Orleans sits more than 10 ft below sea level and it's still going down. San Jose, California already sank 13 ft in the 20th century and Hampton Roads, Virginia, it's the fastest sinking coastline on the entire East Coast. The cause, we pump so much groundwater out from under these cities. The ground itself is collapsing inward. NASA satellites are tracking it in real time.

[00:00:26]In some Houston neighborhoods, the soil dropped 6 ft between 1 920 and 1979 and it never came back. When the ground sinks, flood maps become wrong overnight. FEMA zones are recalculated years behind where the ground actually is. Phoenix has sinkholes forming from aquifer collapse and the thing nobody's publishing, the rate is accelerating. 34 American cities confirmed sinking right now. Your zip code might be one of them and the timeline they're not publishing, some of these areas have less than 30 years before the damage is irreversible.

[00:00:58]Could your country be unavailable with 13 years? So please guys, answer my question. Thank you so much for watching. Goodbye to you.