{"id":36211,"date":"2026-05-14T13:06:02","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T11:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/mexico-towards-sinking\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T13:06:02","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T11:06:02","slug":"mexico-towards-sinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/mexico-towards-sinking\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexico towards sinking?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/meksika.jpg\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;margin-bottom:20px\"><\/p>\n<p>The largest city in North America, Mexico City, is sinking at a rapid rate, visible from space.<\/p>\n<p>NASA satellite images have shown that the Mexican metropolis is sinking at a rate of nearly 30 centimeters per year, making it one of the fastest-sinking cities in the world, something that could threaten its foundations, CNN reports.<\/p>\n<p>Due to the combined effects of pumping. of groundwater and extensive urban development, the aquifer, an underground layer of water-bearing material, has dried up to the point of almost complete depletion, leaving the city sinking for more than a century.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, some areas have sunk by hundreds of meters, while significant steepness has been observed in historic buildings such as the Metropolitan Cathedral, whose construction began in 1573.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers measured rate of its sinking, using data from NASA&#8217;s satellite, known as NISAR, between October 2025 and January 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Surface subsidence is not the only problem. Experts fear that the shrinking aquifer could also lead to serious water shortages.<\/p>\n<p>In the future, the team hopes to create a picture of the rate of sinking for each individual building, which will provide important information on how to mitigate the damage.<\/p>\n<hr style=\"margin:30px 0\">\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#666\">Source: <strong>prizrenpost<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The largest city in North America, Mexico City, is sinking at a rapid rate, visible from space. NASA satellite images have shown that the Mexican metropolis is sinking at a rate of nearly 30 centimeters per year, making it one of the fastest-sinking cities in the world, something that could threaten its foundations, CNN reports. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-20"],"views":12,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36211"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36213,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36211\/revisions\/36213"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}