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How water pumping change the Earth's surface?
Posted on 28 June, 2023 by benyamin chahkandi
Summary: A recent study found that the Earth tilted about 80 centimeters (31.5 inches) east between 1993 and 2010 due to human activity in extracting water out of the earth and transporting it to other locations.
Scientists previously calculated that between 1993 and 2010, humanity pumped 2,150 gigatons of groundwater, or more than 6 millimeters (0.24 inches), of sea level increase, based on climate models. It's challenging to verify that estimate, though.
One method involves using...
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15 March, 2024Today In History
Here are some interesting facts ih history happened on 4 October.
- 1st code of law for Plymouth Colony
- Peter Stuyvesant establishes Americas 1st volunteer firemen
- Mexico becomes a republic
- Market Street's "Path of Gold" lit for 1st time
- the dahlia is officially designated as SF city flower
- The comic strip Dick Tracy debuts
- Wrestling returns to Madison Sq Garden after 12 year lay off
- Indians beat Red Sox in 1st AL playoff game
- Brooklyn Dodgers only World Series victory beating Yankees
- USSR launches Sputnik I the 1st artificial earth satellite
- Leave It to Beaver debuts on CBS
- Transatlantic coml jet passenger service began
- USSR Luna 3 sent back 1st photos of Moon's far side
- Courier 1B Launched; 1st active repeater satellite in orbit
- Whitey Ford's world series 33 2/3 scoreless inning streak ends
- Lesotho (Basutoland) gains independence from Britain (National Day)
- UN starts issuing postage stamps at Geneva headquarters
- Janis Joplin dies at 27
- Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz resigns after racial 'joke'
- pier 39 opens in SF
- Yanks clinch AL East
- 21st Space Shuttle Mission - Atlantis 1 is launched
- James Jefferson of Winnipeg scores 2 TDs on interception returns without making an interception. (He scored on laterals.)