California’s San Joaquin Valley may be sinking nearly an inch ... which beams signals from orbit to capture land elevation changes as frequently as a few times per month. Combining this ...

A new Stanford study has found parts of the San Joaquin Valley have sunk nearly 1 inch per year from 2006 to 2022, and much of the subsidence ... that most subsided land can't be restored ...

Nov. 7, 2024 The study by Stanford University researchers is the first to quantify the full extent of land subsidence in the San Joaquin Valley, one of the world’s major farming regions ...

The San Joaquin Valley is the perfect place for farming ... stopping the decline of water tables is sufficient to halt land subsidence above. To produce their findings, the scientists developed ...

would yield vital information to help guide management and assess options for tackling land subsidence. The researchers said in the study that the San Joaquin Valley has an aquifer system with ...

Scientists observe this downward motion of land, called land subsidence ... Since the 1920s, sections of the San Joaquin Valley have sunk by as much as 8.5 meters (28 feet).

In 2023, as floodwaters rushed toward the San Joaquin Valley ... of the land surface attributed to humankind." And the Tulare Lake area is now the epicenter of the most rapid subsidence since ...

In California’s San Joaquin Valley, the land is sinking by 0.3 metres per year due to excessive pumping of groundwater for a commercial orchard which has caused permanent subsidence and landslides in ...