GREATER BANGKOK – High tide brings a rush of salt water into this seaside city, where sewers overflow many mornings and flood the streets.

While taxis slosh through filthy puddles, dozens of rusty pipes and generators begin pumping floodwaters back into the bay. And by late morning, the pools have receded through gutter grates and the roads are dry.

Originally posted by noahproductions
Prior to the end of 2010, starting on December 23, 2010, sinking along the southern coast of Java was evident, with no remission in this flooding a week later on December 29, 2010. Now there is evidence of flooding along the eastern shores of Malaysia, the eastern shores of northern Sumatra, Sri Lanka and the Philippines.

Read the articles here:
Sinking Asia

edit on 11-1-2011 by noahproductions because: edit link

Originally posted by boondock-saint
related story from another source

China's largest city, Shanghai, is to slash construction of new high-rise buildings to try and stop the city from sinking under the weight of all the concrete and steel.

Shanghai is reportedly sinking 1.5cm each year. Parts of Shanghai are now sinking at a rate of one-and-a-half centimeters a year, largely as a result of a massive building boom there over the last 10 years.

news.bbc.co.uk...

Originally posted by Skywatcher2011

Originally posted by noahproductions

Originally posted by Skywatcher2011

Originally posted by noahproductions

On a side note, keep following up with the developments in southern asia "sinking". Could this be a result of the polar shift?

Personally I think it has got to do with the pole shift and change of earth magnetic field....
We follow up.............

Any particular reasoning why you think it could be the result of a pole shift & the change in earth's MF?

Because all tectonic plates are very active around the globe, especially the one of Indonesia at the moment....
Then the mass bird and fish kill..... I suppose because they use magnetic fields for navigation wich is momentarily disturbed
You can also follow that topic here:
Changes of Environment

Wei Zixin and his colleagues at the Shanghai Geological Survey Institute and staff from the municipal land-management bureau worked round the clock when there was a cave-in at the construction site of a local cross-river subway tunnel early this month...The cave-in took place along the M4 subway line now under construction and led to a wide area of land subsiding. In a chain reaction, one building in the area collapsed and several others began to tilt. Part of a flood wall along the river also broke.

Although the city's land managers and geologists concluded that the incident was not linked to subsidence, it still highlighted the fact that they are at the forefront of a battle against land subsidence in the country's most urbanized metropolis. The fight is still arduous despite the fact that the rate has been kept in check to a certain extent.

Built on coastal sand and clay that lie 70 metres below the ground surface, Shanghai is suffering from creeping subsidence, like Los Angeles, Mexico City, New Orleans, Osaka and Venice. ...The city sank 10.22 millimetres last year. Wei noted: "It is the slowest rate in the past decade." Shanghai sank 10.94 millimetres in 2001 and 12.12 millimetres in 2000, according to the institute. From 1990 to 2001, the city subsided at an average annual rate of around 16 millimetres.

Water extraction Local experts have agreed that the overuse of underground water remains a main cause of the city's subsidence. The Shanghai area was under sea water some 3 million years ago. As a result of movements of the Earth's crust, the area rose above the sea no more than 10,000 years ago...

...As early as 1921, geologists discovered that Shanghai was sinking. Since the 1920s, the city's 600-square-kilometre central area has sunk by 2 metres on average and even 3 metres in some areas. Skyscrapers As the most urbanized metropolis on the Chinese mainland, the land of Shanghai now shoulders more than 2,000 high-rise buildings of at least 100 metres in its 600 square kilometre central area. Thus, in addition to the overuse of underground water, experts believe that the mushrooming of skyscrapers in central Shanghai has also contributed to the city's creeping subsidence.

..."Shanghai's skyscrapers, to some degree, are too dense and in a mess,"

...the city's land managers and city planners are remaining vigilant and working hard to further slow down the sinking of Shanghai.

Originally posted by Skywatcher2011
Just came across an interesting link from a Chinese news source dated 2003-07-16:

www.chinadaily.com.cn...

Wei Zixin and his colleagues at the Shanghai Geological Survey Institute and staff from the municipal land-management bureau worked round the clock when there was a cave-in at the construction site of a local cross-river subway tunnel early this month...The cave-in took place along the M4 subway line now under construction and led to a wide area of land subsiding. In a chain reaction, one building in the area collapsed and several others began to tilt. Part of a flood wall along the river also broke.

Although the city's land managers and geologists concluded that the incident was not linked to subsidence, it still highlighted the fact that they are at the forefront of a battle against land subsidence in the country's most urbanized metropolis. The fight is still arduous despite the fact that the rate has been kept in check to a certain extent.

Built on coastal sand and clay that lie 70 metres below the ground surface, Shanghai is suffering from creeping subsidence, like Los Angeles, Mexico City, New Orleans, Osaka and Venice. ...The city sank 10.22 millimetres last year. Wei noted: "It is the slowest rate in the past decade." Shanghai sank 10.94 millimetres in 2001 and 12.12 millimetres in 2000, according to the institute. From 1990 to 2001, the city subsided at an average annual rate of around 16 millimetres.

Water extraction Local experts have agreed that the overuse of underground water remains a main cause of the city's subsidence. The Shanghai area was under sea water some 3 million years ago. As a result of movements of the Earth's crust, the area rose above the sea no more than 10,000 years ago...

...As early as 1921, geologists discovered that Shanghai was sinking. Since the 1920s, the city's 600-square-kilometre central area has sunk by 2 metres on average and even 3 metres in some areas. Skyscrapers As the most urbanized metropolis on the Chinese mainland, the land of Shanghai now shoulders more than 2,000 high-rise buildings of at least 100 metres in its 600 square kilometre central area. Thus, in addition to the overuse of underground water, experts believe that the mushrooming of skyscrapers in central Shanghai has also contributed to the city's creeping subsidence.

..."Shanghai's skyscrapers, to some degree, are too dense and in a mess,"

...the city's land managers and city planners are remaining vigilant and working hard to further slow down the sinking of Shanghai.