The sinking of land is likely to have a real impact on buildings, roads, rail lines, and other infrastructure. The cities ...

Most often, extracting groundwater can be the most common reason ... and 12% sinking at twice that rate. No. In fact, Memphis is one of three cities identified in the study that appears to have ...

The sinking is mostly being caused by "massive ongoing groundwater extraction ... to one degree or another, the map shows three cities - San Jose, California; Memphis, Tennessee; and Jacksonville ...

The new study looked at the 28 most populous cities in the U.S. and 25 of them are experiencing subsidence, or land sinking, ...

A new study reveals that uneven land subsidence could impact 29,000 buildings across the America's most populated metropolises.

Known scientifically as land "subsidence," the most common cause of the sinking is "massive ongoing groundwater ... On the map, three cities — San Jose, Memphis, and Jacksonville — have ...

Groundwater extraction is the primary ... A few cities on the study's map — San Jose, Memphis and Jacksonville — are depicted with green dots, which indicate uplift. "The uplift we detect ...

Massive ongoing groundwater extraction was found to be the ... used satellite data to map out vertical land movements in 28 of the most populous cities, those where populations exceed 600,000 ...

Known scientifically as land "subsidence," the most common cause of the sinking is "massive ongoing groundwater extraction," say the study authors, though other forces are at work in some places. The ...