The threat of flooding, land subsidence (land subsidence), and so the threat of rising sea bebarapa world's major cities. It is quite possible that in 20 to 80 years there is a city that will disappear from the map of the earth. Plus global warming causes melting of ice at the poles of the earth.
Check out five of the world's endangered submerged below.
1. Bangkok
In 2100, Bangkok is predicted to be the second Atlantis. Capital of Thailand is sinking due to several factors, including climate change as greenhouse effect, rising sea levels, coastal erosion, and shifting soil.The prediction was stated by the head of Thailand's National Disaster Warning Center Smith Dharmasaroja.By a number of parties, Smith predicted taken seriously. Previously he had predicted the tsunami around the Indian Ocean in 2004.
In addition, the location of the city is 1.5 meters below sea level causes Bangkok always flooded every year.
2. Ho Chi Minh City
One city in Southeast Asia are threatened with drowning Ho Chi Minh City. Every year, floodwaters rose as high as 2 inches.
3. Shanghai
Soil structure which was originally swampland and then filled with high-rise buildings, causing the ground Shanghai dropped half an inch each year.The need for the Brazilians skyscraper impact of surging populations Shanghai. In 2001, the city located at the mouth of the River Yangze numbering 20 million people.
4. Mumbai
In 2008, the activist group Greenpeace estimates that, in 2100, the city of Mumbai will be submerged by seawater. Rising sea water up to 5 feet caused by melting polar ice.In a report titled 'Climate Migrants in South Asia "Greenpeace melting polar ice caused by rising temperature of the earth up to 4-5 degrees due to global warming.
5. Jakarta
In addition to its geographical location below sea level, the need for high groundwater suspected to be one cause of the sinking of Jakarta mainland. The population continues to increase the main reason the need for ground water. In the past 20 years, the estimated number of people in the capital increase of up to 40 million people.Hydrology expert from the Netherlands, Janjaap Brinkman explained, if the water extraction process that continually do not stop immediately, at the end of the century, Jakarta will sink."If extraction (suction) ground water is not stopped immediately, at the end of the century, Jakarta will sink to a depth of five to six meters," he told theatlanticcities.com.
Regards, Dwi Hartoyo, SP
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