Largely due to groundwater pumping and shifting of land after the last ice age, major urban areas are subsiding, which could destabilize buildings or worsen flooding ...

Seattle is among several major U.S. cities that are slowly sinking. That’s according to researchers at Virginia Tech, who ...

If you live in a major American city, the ground might be sinking beneath you. Ground beneath major U.S. cities—including New ...

Cities across the U.S., including inland ones such as Denver and Dallas, are settling into the earth, posing increased ...

A major reason is too much groundwater is being pumped out, new research shows, threatening buildings and infrastructure nationwide.

While land sinking less than an inch per year might not seem like much on paper, small shifts in land can have big effects.

Conducted by Virginia Tech researchers, the study used radar to visualize the land movement underneath and found that it ...

New York, Chicago, Seattle, Denver, and five other cities are sinking at around two millimeters per year. Several cities in ...

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