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34 million people live in one of these major U.S. cities that's sinking, new research shows. See if your area is on the list — and how quickly the land is moving.
The study, by researchers from Virginia Tech and several other U.S. universities, used satellite data to map out vertical land movements in 28 of the most populous cities, those where populations ...
34 million people live in one of these major U.S. cities that's sinking, new research shows. See if your area is on the list — and how quickly the land is moving.
The 28 most populous U.S. cities are all settling to one degree or other, according to a study in Nature Cities. The phenomenon isn't limited to coastal urban areas but includes population centers ...
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A study used sensitive satellite measurements to look at the ground of the 28 most populous U.S. cities. All of them are sinking for varying reasons.
Many major U.S. cities are sinking, a new study shows, including Phoenix. Known scientifically as land "subsidence," the most common cause of the sinking is "massive ongoing groundwater extraction ...