A recent study by a NASA-led team has detailed the areas of California where land is sinking, or rising, the most. While NASA 's report said the changes seemed insignificant as they amounted to just ...

T​he research team used satellite data to track land subsidence, or sinking, along the coast of California. Sinking can ...

As utility crews and workers with the Department of Natural Resources continue to assess the damage to the land in Chandler, ...

Natural hazards are naturally occurring physical phenomena ... volcanoes, landslides, flooding, groundwater changes, subsidence, sea level rise and glacial and permafrost dynamics on infrastructure ...

Human activity is causing subsidence in large areas of the Netherlands. Primary causes are the lowering of the groundwater level to keep our feet dry and the construction of residential areas and ...

The ground sinking is helped along by rising sea levels caused by climate change, which lead to frequent and severe flooding. Subsidence is a natural occurrence, but man has accelerated the process.

Subsidence, or ground sinking due to underground material movement, is most commonly induced by the extraction of water, oil, natural gas, or mineral resources from the earth by pumping, fracking, or ...

Land subsidence in the New Delhi region has been a growing concern over the past three decades, influenced by various human and natural factors. The rate of land subsidence is mainly influenced by ...

Ground subsidence in Gifu Prefecture was likely caused by tunnel construction work for the magnetic-levitation (maglev) Chuo Shinkansen Line, Central Japan Railway Co. (JR Tokai) said. In the ...