Sentence examples for subsidence from from inspiring English sources

(Some districts east of the Sumida lay below sea level. Subsidence, from drawing underground water, made them sink yet lower).

On the eastern side, subsidence from the Hadley circulation is enhanced by the tendency of air to preserve its angular momentum on the rotating Earth.

A recent World Bank reports says that land subsidence from compaction (from new skyscrapers, for instance) and increased groundwater extraction (for a growing population) mean that Jakarta is sinking ten times faster than the Java Sea is rising because of climate change.All across Asia, megacities face similar problems.

Land subsidence from deep well pumping has been affecting Bangkok for the past 35 years.

This paper has demonstrated a GIS based developed tool to predict 4D subsidence from underground mining sequence.

Created on vast areas affected by subsidence from coal-mining activities, the park has a total area of 16 km2.

The solid triangles indicate the change points from uplift to subsidence estimated from historical records (Shishikura 2000b).

Over time, some mottes suffered from subsidence or damage from flooding, requiring repairs and stabilisation work.

The sediment volume required to calibrate the simulations along the sections ranges from about 165,000 870,000 m3 m−1; the maximum tectonic subsidence varies from 0.1 to 0.7 mm yr−1.

As shown in Fig. 4, the maximum subsidence from 1992 to 2001 is less than 1.25, measured in Yaft Abad (i.e. neighborhood located northwest of HQHS and HSHT crossing).

More mysterious are photographs of a landscape dotted with subsidence craters from underground testing.