Iran suffers from some of the worst land subsidence in the world, brought on by drought, climate change and poor water management. Cracks threaten the country’s main airport and Unesco sites ...

The Pacific Northwest is ripe for a major earthquake – and shaking and tsunamis wouldn’t be the only threats from such an event, according to new research. Coastal land would also sink nearly 7 feet, ...

per Big Easy Magazine. "New Orleans is built on soft, marshy land formed by centuries of Mississippi River sediment," Scott Ploof wrote for the magazine. "Over time, that land naturally compresses and ...

Authorities have officially declared a state of emergency in the village of Voutes, near Heraklion on Crete, following the worsening of land subsidence that has already caused serious structural ...

This abrupt land sinkage would dramatically raise the relative sea level of coastal communities in a matter of seconds. In the worst-case scenario, the subsidence would more than double the ...

To predict the potential damage, Dura’s team created tens of thousands of earthquake models to estimate the expected land subsidence, or sinking, from a future Cascadia megaquake. Using geospatial ...