Image From Space Shows Downtown San Francisco Sinking Slowly Around Millennium Tower
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- The Millennium Tower may be the most recognizable sinking building in the city, but one researcher says earth-based and space-based observations confirm the entire downtown area around it is sinking as well. Jaxon Van Derbeken reports.
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People want to build SF like Manhattan, forgetting that Manhattan sits on granite while SF sits on silt, abandoned gold rush ships and fault lines.
It should be built like Paris, which has hardly any skyscrapers bc it’s built on catacombs.
Of course a huge part of the problem is a local government that, for 20 years has been totally complacent with wealthy international investors building massive vanity towers and empty investment properties.
All of the new modern development was placed at La Defense. A pretty lame-O area. Too futurist for my liking.
Built on ships? Have a link for that?
You might've missed the part where they said Manhattan is sinking also...
GREED is the culprit.
it's expected and not a problem.
SF and Bay Area in general is sinking in more ways than one.
yup
Reeeeeeeeeeeeee....
@@DonLicuala San andreas ain't gonna save you, but Jesus christ will
When I visited Berlin, I noted that there are no big skyscrapers because the city is built on what was originally a swamp. Much of SF is built on landfill. The "City Knows How" sure got it wrong when the city government allowed the construction of so many huge buildings.
That is a lot of bull shit. Chicago is build on a swamp. In the past chicago architects made their own bedrock in a floating foundation made out of concrete and steel - those buildings were only a dozen stories high. The city has some of the tallest buildings ever - which were anchored to the bed rock hundreds of feet below the surface. In face the entire city is build on landfill and was raised 10-30 feet across the entire city - you can see the old houses in some places that were built at the original grade.
The part of SF this building was built is naturally elevated.
They delved too greedily and too deep. You know what they awoke in the darkness
@@CulturedThugPoster
The point is they didn't delve deep at all.
They delve-ed quite shallow
and now they wallow is internet sorrow
and it takes all their might to fight
the idea that they slumber in the murkiness.
@@tvviewer4500 lol bro, you’re arguing with someone who is quoting a wizard. Just stop.
@@mtunofun1 Brosof, if I let wizard talk run amok without a rhyming retort I can't live with myself as more and more people use wizard language. Stop the Wizards!!
*And people should have listened. Back in the 1970s, San Franciscans opposed to the 'Manhattanization' of the Financial District area. However, Diana Fainstein and others heavily involved in the real estate business didn't listen. Most of the Embarcadero buildings area is landfill, much of the Marina is built on a former landfill, and is susceptible to soil liquefaction during strong earthquakes.*
Ralph Smith exactly, SF probably goes up and down with the tides.
Feinstein has put money above what is good for San Francisco and America.
Many major cities have the same problem. Areas of Milwaukee are sinking due to being built on fill or unstable soil. If you live in an older building that is built near the coast you can tell if your building is sinking by how tight your doors close or if your door swings open by itself.
It should be called Chicagoization. Since we did this architecture called skyscaper first. Give credit where credit is due. New York has been using our architecture for years
That tower is now a metaphor for the culture of that city.
Bingo Bango
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Say no more my brother
Actually a pretty good and interesting report.
Living in Fremont it became very obvious the sinking is accelerating. A telegraph pole opposite our 3 story high apts suddenly 'visually sank' beneath the peninsula skyline two years ago, almost three now. A new fissure opened under our complex going south east and running north west same time from the Hayward fault. Our building was tipping north east. Now heavily tilts south west. Two sinkholes growing from a couple of inches to at least a foot under the driveway on the east side of the property. The doors were tight fitting, now loose. The walls have heavy cracking. The patios buckling. $10 mill grant given to refurbish the place. When its a high tide? The drains don't work and the parking lot floods.speeding up. The city is built on more or less level, flat ground. But the higher the tides? The more the flooding occurs. Newark, Union City and Fremont all affected. No idea how to fix things. Watching in fascinated horror and praying nothing bad happens to any of us.
The scientists never once mentioned rising sea level. The reporter mentioned it a couple times. Anyone nor paying attention would completely miss the facts.
Oh and I'm sure building these high-rise structures on top of the 1906 earthquake debris has nothing to do with differential settlement
The way things are going in San Francisco the city can't sink fast enough.
DAAAAAMMMM !!!
The entire planet's coastlines are going to disappear.
@@sentientflower7891 they will just be different coastlines they won't disappear
I totally agree.
@@karlaskitties nobody lives where Republicans live as all the youth despises you and leaves as soon as they can never to return.
The San Andreas is not “a fault”, it’s a fault zone. Other ruptures can occur parallel to the known fault lines anywhere in or near the fault zone. A building doesn’t have to be right on a known fault line to be affected, or collapse in an earthquake, the geological materials underlying it are more important than its immediate proximity to a fault. The downtown area is underlain by a hundred feet or more of very weak clays, fills and other materials above the bedrock, which continue to subside. All high rises in downtown should be required to have foundations seated in the bedrock, just look at the Millennium Tower fiasco. I hope it’s only a financial disaster in the end, not one which kills thousands of people.
And you this how? Last time I heard SF was built on piles of shit and garbage compressed over time and filling with tons of cubic feet of methane. SF is one giant fart from exploding and leveling it once again. And The San Andreas is a FAULT, get your facts straight!
NY is facing the same problem because it too was built on shit, garbage, and giant crushed clam shells tons of them.
Mexico City is another one that is sinking because it was built over an ancient lake.
@@edithdlp8045 Parts of it not all of it
@@MichaelSmith-jb5md yes, you are correct. The part that has the major problem is the Basilica built in honor of the Virgin Guadalupe, they even had to build another one next door because the original was sinking.
San Francisco is sinking...soooo how can we help the process along?
I got a shovel!!
let it sink.
Keep voting democrat
Aww honey
The buildings aren't the only thing sinking in the bay area.
You are so RIGHT!
"Smash & grabs " in the east bay are heartbreaking
I don't think, Stanford and Hillsdale will be affected
Could the sinking be from the landfill from the 1906 earthquake?
What else? My home is rising rising rising.
@@kathleenking47 Exactly that!
True
I feel like I Can’t believe a word NBC says
Yeah lol nasa satellites 🛰 can detect 3 inches over 100 years settlement from blurry photo. Lmao
Couple of ivy league foos here. 👌
@@agolftweetler3995 Work on your spelling and you might get in someday chief 👌
@@colourfaze86 JAR foo
Big reason I left my job there
When I was a teen, the Sleeping Prophet warned that California would crack off and fall into the ocean. This could do it. But my money is on all the nonsense that is really sinking you: no law and crime without consequences,
California will not fall into the ocean. At 2:00, it clearly says the San Andreas Fault is miles west of San Francisco. Also the two plates of the fault move horizontally, not vertically.
@@RaymondHng Been there. Seen it. Big chasm. You missed my joke, dear. Thanks for the lesson.
@@susanjaneterry1073 no law and crime is unpunished? Which is it california can be both overly regulated and lawless?
@@artypyrec4186 Got me. Cali probably has more regulations than any other state, why companies are relocating. But, I left the state 3 yrs ago when there were laws that were enforced and there were consequences, What happened?
@@susanjaneterry1073 if those laws aren't enforced then doesn't that mean those companies should be moving back? That would be a logic fallacy then, if laws aren't being enforced then those companies wouldn't leave, if laws are enforced then that would be the reason they are leaving. Which laws aren't being enforced?
Then there is the "spirit of the law and word of law" argument.
Couldn't happen to a better place.
kinda ironic that the tallest and heaviest buildings tend to be built on the coast.
@Charley Sheen I agree. Pause at 0:37. That view is insane. I didn't know SF's area was that beautiful.
People live near water... 🤷♂️
@@user-sz6kp1tn6c It's absolutely beautiful here... And the weather is fantastic, I had outside brunch yesterday in a T-shirt... We have our problems but sometimes it's worth it 🙂
Pelosi just bought property in Florida by the ocean while claiming climate change. Or how about Obama's vine yard beach front? Rising sea levels?
@@depthcharge6215 Just need 1 hurricane storm surge to destroy that investment.
Too much poop weighing down the land.
All new buildings should be built with the assumption that at some point the first 20 stories are going to be underwater.
It's also sinking into a blackhole of homelessness and crime.
Media always portrays things worse than they really are
Is there any way this can be expedited?
SF should plan ahead and become the Venice of America.
Gondolas sound eco friendly🤔
@@leechurchill1965 sooo....looters will roll up to ransack LV in gondolas instead of Altimas and Chargers? Cool!
@@pushslice 😂
it already is, havent you seen the rivers of poop?
Which itself is sinking. At east the Italians a built a barrier to protect it.
Couldn’t happen to a nicer place.
I'd buy that for a dollar!
It's a nice place, but the people and politics just suck. How can so many brainiacs be so dumb?
Interesting. I understand Manhattan is built on granite. Downtown S.F. is built on ship carcasses and mud and is vulnerable to earthquakes and liquefaction.
I'm getting a sinking feeling that this isn't going to turn out well. It could all end in a catastrophe that rivals the 1906 quake. It's a bit
late to think 0f the big picture. The trick is to get out before the property values of all downtown skyscrapers start to plummet.
Once this video goes viral (Monday).... okay everybody you gots 2 days to GET OUT! 🤣
I see this happening as well.
Strange the weight of a buildings is never mentioned in toronto because all foundations go bedrock even low rise
All the homeless people pissing on the streets is causing major flood in SF
Ironic that the area is close to the largest homeless population in SF. There's an old saying about living in an "ivory" tower isn't there? This is nature restoring balance IMO.
Ironic that this area is home to a bunch of gentrifying millionaires. This couldn’t happen to a more deserving group of people.
@@debbiehunt5940 Yes you should totally move there.
@@colourfaze86 sorry, not a gentrifying millionaire
@@debbiehunt5940 you think they don't have some complex deep in the mountains to escape? Their investment payed itself off already, they don't care about the poor inhabitants
@@debbiehunt5940 Doesn’t matter. Sounds just right for you 👌
3inches a year? Is there anything we can do to speed up the process?
3” in the last 100 years… 3” a year is wishful thinking 😂😂😂
Build more skyscrapers! That'll help speed up the process 😂
The mayor and idiots in DA office are pushing hard to speed it up.
You can count on them 👌😮
I thought everything in san Francisco leans left. No surprise right
But yet We keep building because there must be no other land anywhere in California where we can build on. And don’t bring up the fact that we don’t have enough water for us who are already here let alone more people moving in who will need water too. Makes Sense doesn’t it?
Only if you're a short sighted profiteer or real estate investors, money is the only thing that matters to them. They'll pick up shop and move elsewhere when the walls of society crumble. Then they'll let people rebuild, and steal everything again
Wow, you can see busted out car windows from space, sweet.
One could read a newspaper from space in the 60's. No joke. Ask Russia.
Feces and dirty needles show up pretty well too.
San Francisco is sinking because of heavy skyscrapers then we should build more to help it sink faster
@Swen nah they got a clean up poop squad and a poop app so you know the non peasants don’t have to step it
It's like space time. A black hole curves space time more because it has more mass that pulls space around it. The millenium tower POS also bends space around it because it is not attached to bedrock...unlike every other building around it. Don't try to make it sound like it's not the building's builder's fault.
i'm with you brother
That's excellent commentary and cosmic humor. 🥃 .....🦖☄
I personally felt the extreme building in SF ruined it. Building more offices than housing.
More housing?? There is too many people here already! U want more people here, SMH 🙄
TRUE horrible and makes traffic so much worse as well. Sad so many people got priced out of living in that beautiful city.
@@MisfitsFiendClub138 im pretty sure they mean more afforable housing for its large homeless population
@@PeaceMastah Traffic is horrible because you have more jobs than housing which forces people to commute to work. Build sufficient housing and people won't have to travel as much as they do.
@@taoliu3949 That’s not the solution but no shit, look at the comment I’m replying to lmao
SF isn’t sinking fast enough.
Finally some one is standing up to say something about these heavy building structures..
Funny how when the ground sinks, they say that sea levels are rising !!!
Man if only your brain could comprehend that! Oh what a world! 🤡🤡🤡
Building up the sea wall? Basically adding more weight. You can't win against the forces of nature.
Took a century to move 3 inches, sea level moving much faster than that.
Wish it would all drop off, and fast at that so no one can flee. Everyone in that city is sick In the head.
Lmfao someone needs to get laid 😅
SF can't sink fast enough.
Why’s that bud
When the earthquake hits half of the city will drown be prepared if you work or live in sf so glad I got out that hole
Everyday I am baffled and confused as to how California is able to exist
Democrats thrives in their utopian territory. There.
@@kheemirbioch6413 Lobbyist basically republican my eyes.
Not only exist, thrive more than any other state. 🙂
@@agolftweetler3995 the brains are mostly in california, the ass end is florida
not for long,but we have a real build back better plan,it's called locals!
The devil be like "this city is literally going to hell"
Lmao I like going party there but you're right. It is a sinful city. Haha
They voted for it👍🏽
Clean up the city....
Developers company has to be held accountable.
Now if the whole city would just sink...
AND NEVER RESURFACE
Please restock all the looted stores so the criminal element will go down with the ship
It doesn't have to be directly over fissures. When St Andreas opens up it will be catastrophic and the whole coast will go. SF to TIJUANA.
The San Andreas Fault moves horizontally, not vertically and definitely not apart. It will take a few million years for Los Angeles to move north and be next to San Francisco.
@@RaymondHng Oh OK 👌 wutever YOU SAY? But YOU are gauging by old school info. You didn't FACTOR in 100 years of ON AND OFFSHORE DRILLING AND FRACKING FROM WASHINGTON STATE TO TIJUANA then there's the INLAND 🌋 that IS DUE TO ERUPT AGAIN??? AND HOW BOUT THAT PESKY CLIMATE CHANGE? HAVE A HAPPY DAY 🦃🇺🇸👍
They should just let the tower sink down to the bedrock. It would then be super stable but of course you'd only have a five story building then. 🤣
Nice reporting job, Jaxon.
building a larger sea wall will just move the water elsewhere
Can you straighten the Millennium Tower with Photoshop?
Like you can repair a broken CD by gluing the two halves together.
NO CRAZY GLUE ONLY,AND DON'T FORGET THE RUBY SLIPPERS.
Finally, good news about San Francisco.
I have been wondering about this for a looooooong time now!!!
I have been writing politicians about this for years , there is a real natural threat to the real estate of San Francisco moreso than Florida - and that is Severe however Millennium Tower has Huge HUGE imminent issues other than sinking
The Hayward Fault is over due to slide - the Millennium is Not a Fixable situation whereas the additional attempts at support is going to further damage the structure .
The City should have never built buildings into what was the Bay. It was never supposed to be built upon.
How long does it take to get through traffic in downtown?! So many buildings!
Everything in SF has been sinking for years lol
With that city running so smoothly, it goes without saying that the weight of buildings on the earth and sea level rise over the next 100 years, is the top priority.
Lol you don't even know if you'll be here tomorrow, let alone 100 years. Bozo
this needs to be fix or collapse is coming. nothing is guarantee safety. least building engineer knows its sinking at rapid rate each year or monthly.
3 inches over 100 years doesn't sound that bad. The water level rising is more concerning and it's same everywhere. Plus most of the city is up on hills, the average elevation is 52 ft.
Dude, if it keeps going at that rate, buildings could actually fall over, three inches doesn't seem like a lot, but to an entire building it's really dangerous.
@@sandunderrad they expect buildings to settle and this is over 100 years.
beautiful !
Wow. If my house sabk 3 inches in a century, I have no idea what I'd do. Of course, I won't be living to see my house reach the century mark.
Of course, maybe 3 inches a century on the earth's moving plates isn't really that much. If it continues and downtown has sank a full foot 300 years from now, it MIGHT be worrisome.
It might be normal and inconsequential for small structures, however for a 50+ story building it is a different situation. Remember the crust compared to the rest of the earth represents around 1.67% if its total volume. So a slight change in the mantle under certain areas (the mantle is also moving continuosly ) could cause dramatic changes to the surface.
We have only been making super tall structures for around 100 years (things like the pyramids are solid stone and wouldn't be effect by any sinkage) and have only been studying the earth in depth for around the same time.
Greed might have caught up with the bay area. Literally being a victim of their own success & it happens to everyone & everything.
Do a report on Coronado bridge in SD. I went there years ago and it's not safe. Felt like it was warping already. We cannot control the oceans.
Is this sinking or flooding? They state rising sea levels which would align with flooding but sinking due to the weight of the concrete buildings and correlating that with rising sea levels?
Not just SF, the whole world is.
Don't pee on the sidewalks , just saying.
When will it fall over?
They need to just give up and condemn it. Start taking it down from the top before it kills everyone in the neighborhood.
That town is sinking alright and in more than one way
I have lived all over the world and written several books-including a 600 page book book on communism-- and Americans’ failure to oppose it-since obtaining my P.hD. at Columbia University.
Name of book? It sounds quite interesting
Mhm, yeah nobody cares.
Republicans in Northen California live in rural communities
I always knew this would happen.
Knowing my home will eventually be under water is scary.
Don't live near the coasts and work to turn back climate change.
BULLLL SHIT THAT GUY HAS INSPECTED ALMOST A MILLION BUILDINGS! if he’s like 60 and did 20 buildings a day every day of his life he would only be at 438,000 buildings.
THE SKY IS FALLING!!
Lets not forget that the shoreline used to be Montgomery street when the state was taken from the Spanish. All that land to the current shore is landfill
Drum roll, please.
Is there a way to use Rosie O'Donnell as a counter balance on the other side of the fault? Oh wait, sea level would go up 300 feet.
Tell me you’re 50 without telling me you’re 50
Yes. There has been a rise in the sea for 15,000 years. The current rate of rise is what it was 100 years ago
Climate change denier, what a bozo
@@realhuman4396 Hardly a climate change denier, but rather one who recognizes that climate changes and has changed throughout Earth's history.
"ISOSTACY" - empty space excavated underground to compensate for building weight. Why so many tall structures have underground parking garages. That's how high rises are buklt in Seattle on Glacial Till hillsides, along with vertical and 45 degree angled concrete pilings.
Big One, where are you?
Drain the bay lol!
The best thing that could happen is that not only SF but also the entire state of CA would sink....forever.
The Pacific plate is sliding north. Unfortunately the ocean is in the way. You can see evidence of this process on the north tip of Pt Reyes.
is it sinking or- all the drilling and draining water from the ground?
The city is sinking? OMG. Remove all those buildings at once!
In fact, the area just off and slightly further away from the epicenter of an earthquake fares worse than directly on top of the epicenter.
The epicenter of the 1906 quake was in downtown Santa Rosa in Sonoma County.
I thought these downtown areas such as SF and Lower Manhattan were built on top of rubble! Wouldn't that eventually be a problem?
Did they consider the ground water and oil pumping in the area?
Yay! Anything to lower the cost of loving in the Bay Area and SF is good, and if that means it's sinking into the sea, than that's what it takes to have a more comfortable life here. The Millennium Tower is shaped like a giant phallus and the streets of SF smell like a human rectum, thus lending those aesthetics to SF's most famous demographic.
Say you're a homophobic piece of shit without saying you're a homophobic piece of shit.
I hope this video is still up in 100 years when things will look a lot different.
lol.
Wow.
The sea level may be rising but so is the time for the "Big Earthquake". That is the real and most probably danger to the City of San Francisco. There are too many heavy buildings in too small a space.
A large earthquake could level and bring about a massive destruction of these buildings.
Now we know why there’s a lot of looting going on in downtown SFO. SFO downtown will be underwater sooner than expected
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God killed his only son, and frankly blames man for his shit design. Get this, I build a house, it withers away, I blame the inhabitants, then kill my son in a blood sacrifice to nullify my mistakes? Weird belief constructs
@@chrism8180 I'm sorry but your understanding and comprehension of this subject is so off and completely wrong. You know what you're doing. Saying utterly offensive and controversial comments hoping to cause outrage and thus giving you attention in a TH-cam comment section. Pathetic. Aside from my reply, I'm glad it didn't work. I feel sorry for people like you. Its sad.🙄
@@nikkibest5010 what makes you an authority on the subject? Why would your OPINION of the belief you adhere to make it true?
@@nikkibest5010 if you think I haven't thought about this heavily to weigh my opinion, you're wrong. I'm not simply trying to cause a ruckus, I want people to think for themselves, not blindly follow. I feel sorry for people who lack autonomy and need to cater to group think
@@chrism8180 Fair enough, but there's a time and place for that. Do you think replying to this person's comment, who was trying to give love and hope to those who read it, is the appropriate way? You simply come off as a spiteful, mean jerk . This situation is not the place to try to start some intellectual conversation about faith and religion, and you that.
I live on the coast line . 64 years old . Sea Level hasn't changed at all . San Francisco is SUBSIDING < SINKING .
Those weight figures showing without the fittings, furniture, goods, and people, or cars if they have parking lots in their buildings too or am I wrong?
How will they blame Trump for this
Let’s go Brandon
How appropriate
Please God bring on the earthquakes and reclaim Commiefornia back to the Pacific