In recent years, the Western United States has been facing a rather alarming issue—it’s gradually sinking. One might wonder ...

The construction of levees prevented this natural build-up ... in one of the worst spots it could be in terms of this land subsidence," Paul Bierman, a UVM geologist, told Science Direct.

Researchers documented regions of land subsidence (displayed in blue ... Both manmade and natural causes were factors in ground level changes. Many coastal regions, including parts of San ...

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

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 ...

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 ...