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            <p>HOUSTON &mdash; A California geophysicist says the sheer weight of the torrential rains brought by Harvey has caused Houston to sink by 2 centimeters.</p><p>Chris Milliner, a postdoctoral fellow at NASA&rsquo;s Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, says water weighs about a ton per cubic meter and the flooding was so widespread that it &ldquo;flexed Earth&rsquo;s crust.&rdquo;</p><div class="ad" id="article_mid1_0" data-model-settings="{&quot;ad&quot;:{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;article_mid1&quot;,&quot;div&quot;:&quot;article_mid1_0&quot;,&quot;sizes&quot;:[[300,250],[320,50],[1,1]]},&quot;targeting&quot;:{&quot;pgid&quot;:[&quot;474771824&quot;],&quot;pgtype&quot;:[&quot;article&quot;],&quot;strnativekey&quot;:[&quot;2YNEkKMk1QC5WsCndTXLDYVB&quot;]}}"></div><p>He told the Houston Chronicle that he used observations from the Nevada Geodetic Laboratory and other statistics to measure the drop.</p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">GPS data show <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Harveyflood?src=hash">#Harveyflood</a> was so large it flexed Earth's crust, pushing <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Houston?src=hash">#Houston</a> down by ~2 cm! <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/EarthScience?src=hash">#EarthScience</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/HurricaneHarvey?src=hash">#HurricaneHarvey</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/txflood?src=hash">#txflood</a> <a href="https://t.co/88lNScJBq9">pic.twitter.com/88lNScJBq9</a></p>&mdash; Chris Milliner (@Geo_GIF) <a href="https://twitter.com/Geo_GIF/status/904808613339848704">September 4, 2017</a></blockquote><script async="" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script><p>Milliner says it will only be temporary. Once the floodwaters recede, there will be an &ldquo;opposite elastic response of the crust,&rdquo; similar to jumping on a mattress. He refers to the phenomenon as local elastic subsidence and says it&rsquo;s found in other places that experience significant seasonal changes in water or ice.</p><p>&quot;While that&rsquo;s not enough to worsen flooding that was measured in (many) feet, it&rsquo;s actually quite impressive for a sudden change from a single weather event. That&rsquo;s a testament to the weight of the preposterous amount of water the area was under,&quot; <a href="http://While that's not enough to worsen flooding that was measured in (many) feet, it's actually quite impressive for a sudden change from a single weather event. That's a testament to the weight of the preposterous amount of water the area was under.a" target="_blank">reported Ars Technica.</a></p><div class="gallery">
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