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

GOPESHWAR: Widening cracks in subsidence-hit Joshimath during the monsoon prompted authorities to shift five families to relief camps. Admitting that land-subsidence in areas declared unsafe ...

Satellite images by the ISRO show that the Himalayan town sank 5.4 cm in just a fortnight triggered by a possible subsidence ... for the land owners and the authorities in return for inducements. Our ...

Landslides were common enroute to Joshimath, and people were clearing ... projects in the region is exacerbating subsidence – the sinking of land. The town’s loose topsoil and soft rocks ...

Photo : IANS Mussoorie: A team of scientists visited Mussoorie after pictures of land subsidence sparked a rerun of a Joshimath-like situation in Uttarakhand. Geoscientists and members of the ...

This seems like a similar incident to the buildings developing cracks in Joshimath, Uttarakhand, due to land subsidence. Satellite images have shown how Joshimath is 'sinking'. The images show ...

Satellite images of Joshimath ... Over 280 buildings in Joshimath, including a local temple, have developed cracks since the first week of January due to land subsidence, according to government ...

Joshimath, an Indian Himalayan hamlet ... The National Remote Sensing Center (NRSC) of ISRO examined the satellite photos to pinpoint the potential location and magnitude of land subsidence over both ...

A migrant worker carrying a bottle of water filled from a water tanker in Dwarka in 2015 India's Himalayan town of Joshimath has ... and reversed the trend of land subsidence.

While the recent damage to houses and structures in Joshimath have brought widespread attention to the land subsidence ... ground deformation using radar images of the Earth’s surface that ...

Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council, issued a fiery statement following Ukraine’s surprise June 1 attack on Russian air bases. Addressing those "worried and waiting ...