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At least 65 percent of urban areas in 25 major cities are sinking, with some local spots dropping by about two inches a year, new research has shown.
A recent study shows most of the biggest cities in the country are sinking, and three Texas cities are doing so faster than ...
In every city studied, at least 20% of the urban area is sinking – and in 25 of 28 cities, at least 65% is sinking. The ...
U.S. cities that's sinking, new research shows. See if your area is on the list — and how quickly the land is moving.
Ohenhen has been analyzing subsidence rates in the US for the past year, and in a new study he and his team show that urban ...
The movement is slow — sinking on the scale of millimeters per year in the United States — but the effects accumulate over ...
While land sinking less than an inch per year might not seem like much on paper, small shifts in land can have big effects.
Some of the biggest U.S. cities are sinking, and one Texas city is sinking faster than ... A few cities on the study's map — San Jose, Memphis and Jacksonville — are depicted with green ...