{"id":537904,"date":"2026-03-22T03:37:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T03:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/537904\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T03:37:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T03:37:26","slug":"nasa-says-san-francisco-is-sinking-rapidly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/537904\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA says San Francisco is sinking rapidly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">SAN FRANCISCO (CNN) &#8211; San Francisco is sinking faster than previously thought.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">NASA data show that relative sea levels could be double what scientists predicted for 2050.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Relative sea levels are calculated from both sea level rise and vertical land motion, or sinking land. Vertical land motion was previously calculated indirectly using data from tide gauges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The research used satellite imagery from 2015 to 2023 and determined that the old calculations were too low.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Higher relative sea levels amplify flooding and other impacts, meaning extreme weather would raise the city\u2019s risk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The research shows that sea level rise is similarly underestimated for Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 CNN Newsource. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN FRANCISCO (CNN) &#8211; San Francisco is sinking faster than previously thought. NASA data show that relative sea&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":537905,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[241019,241013,3031,241018,241015,241017,241014,5284,241012,241016,79,193],"class_list":["post-537904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-is-los-angeles-sinking","tag-is-san-francisco-sinking","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-sinking","tag-nasa-san-francisco-sinking-rapidly","tag-nasa-says-san-francisco-is-sinking","tag-nasa-says-san-francisco-is-sinking-rapidly","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-sinking","tag-san-francisco-sinking-rapidly","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=537904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/537905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}