ChemE Stewart <cheme...@gmail.com> wrote: Hurricane Harvey condensed 33 trillion gallons of water over land. >
According to the JPL, this pushed the earth's surface down by 2 cm over an area larger than the city of Houston. See: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/09/hurricane-harvey-deformed-the-earths-crust-around-houston/538866/ It is astounding they can measure such small changes. - Jed