Increasing interplay among extreme events and land subsidence impacts calls for urgent mitigation and policy action to reduce detrimental ramifications to infrastructure and people.

An online tool maps measurements and enables non-experts to understand earthquakes, subsidence, landslides, and other types ...

The Tehama County Board of Supervisors convened to address a pressing issue: land subsidence caused by depleting groundwater ...

Ground under Red Bluff, Corning and Antelope is sinking from groundwater removal. Here's what that could mean and why it's ...

Sinking land, also called subsidence, can worsen the effects of ... using data from individual monitoring wells. Water pumped from wells isn’t something that people think about often.

If you live in a major American city, the ground might be sinking beneath you. Ground beneath major U.S. cities —including New York, Dallas and Seattle —is slowly but steadily sinking, with more than ...

reinforcing critical infrastructure and continuous monitoring of subsidence levels are effective ways cities can respond to help keep citizens and the environment safe.

Subsidence is not something that can be immediately reversed, however, the study does recommend ways to minimize the impacts on affected cities. The study highlighted the importance of monitoring ...

So what can be done? According to the researchers behind the study, subsidence monitoring should be part of urban planning to keep infrastructure risks from worsening. They also said strategies ...