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

The Las Vegas Review Journal reports that Las Vegas is sinking much less than other desert cities in the Colorado River Basin because it has been able to pump millions of gallons of water into ...

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

Shock-horror media stories don’t help either, such as the dramatic pictures of giant sinkholes that appeared in Surrey ... According to Which magazine ‘Subsidence cover is standard in most policies, ...

Several families living in the area had to relocate their homes while the Carrickmacross-Kingscourt road was closed for a number of weeks until the risk of further subsidence could be determined.

Agency officials also have directed inspections of its bridges near the sinkholes, including those going over Route 15. “There is deterioration of the concrete cover on the bridge piers that is ...

Need insider post-session coverage? Catch up on what passed ... Lu has published papers on the Permian Basin’s sinkholes, earthquakes and subsidence — the gradual sinking of the ground.

Southern Methodist University geophysicist Zhong Lu has published papers on the Permian Basin’s sinkholes, earthquakes and subsidence ... Martha Pskowski covers climate change and the ...

IF IT’S LESS THAN 50FT OF COVER, YOU VERY EASILY COULD ... OFF STREETS RUN ROAD IN BALDWIN IS A TOP PRIORITY DUE TO SUBSIDENCE THAT COULD LEAD TO A SINKHOLE. GOVERNMENT RECORDS SHOW AN ABANDONED ...

There are two main types of sinkholes: those that form slowly over time (cover-subsidence sinkholes) and those that appear suddenly (cover-collapse sinkholes). While it is usually the latter type ...

Article continues below “The collapse may gradually propagate up through the overlying strata to cause subsidence at the surface (a ‘collapse sinkhole ... clay or soil) covers the soluble ...