land subsidence
ground subsidence

The area has been facing the problem of land subsidence.

The project was abandoned in the early 1960s because of severe land subsidence.

They at first relied on ground water, but that caused land subsidence.

Land subsidence is also caused by the weight of increasingly high buildings.

Because of the continuous land subsidence it became ever more difficult to remove excess water.

The depletion of the water table around Bangkok has led to land subsidence.

The Foundry has since closed due to land subsidence and all major stores have moved out.

There were also cases of land subsidence due to groundwater overexploitation.

Recent work has shown that refined management practices have halted land subsidence.

This technique weakened the mines and led to land subsidence as they collapsed.

In Semarang land subsidence occurs at a rate of 9 cm/year.

Tokyo has sunk into the ocean, along with most of the world, during a large-scale land subsidence.

The coal mining area also faces land subsidence problems.

When the aquifer gets compressed it may cause land subsidence, a drop in the ground surface.

However, this layer has fractured due to land subsidence.

In the past 100 years, land subsidence and sea-level rise have recently added three feet to all storm surges.

In this way, land subsidence has the potential of becoming self-perpetuating, having rates up to 5 cm/yr.

Over the next five decades its inclination declined to 10 cm per km due to land subsidence of 7 meters.

Land subsidence essentially stopped in the mid-1970's when the area exhausted the underlying aquifer from which it had drawn water, primarily for industry.

Land subsidence was first identified when cracks were discovered in the Sarinah bridge in 1978.

The concourse beneath was cracked by land subsidence, lying perilously close to the chasm.

At the same time the drained soil consolidates and peat decomposes leading to land subsidence.

However the peat settled much more than other soil types when drained and land subsidence resulted in developed areas becoming wet again.

The earthquake destroyed Valdivia's flood barriers and general land subsidence exposed new areas to flooding.

Discusses land subsidence due to increased ground water pumping in the Southwest and the damage caused by subsidence.