Velcroman1 writes "New Mexico's borders are gradually gaining girth, by the book to the Albuquerque Journal. It's not much, and it's not adventure very fast — the state is getting about an inch wider every 40 years — but the state is unquestionably expanding, according to regulation to rule to rule to coaching mash unit of Colorado geophysicist Henry Berglund and his colleagues. Using a heap of 25 extra-precise GPS receivers planted across New Mexico and Colorado, Berglund fixed that the cities of Albuquerque and Santa Fe are creeping away from each other. The rate of change seems ever so slow to the untrained ear, described as approximately 1.2 'nanostrains' per year."

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