AN historic 19th-century courthouse was shut after inspectors found signs of subsidence, “wet rot” in the judge’s chambers, ...

JAKARTA – The capital city of Indonesia faces an escalating threat from land subsidence, which experts warn could leave parts of the city underwater and cause massive economic losses if aggressive ...

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GEORGE TOWN, Dec 3 (Bernama) -- The Penang government has ordered immediate repair works following subsidence and the failure of a retaining structure along the maintenance route of the Department of ...

A scientific study in the journal Nature made waves earlier this year when it found that Houston is sinking faster than any other major city in the nation through a phenomenon known as subsidence. But ...

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KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 10 (Bernama) -- Repair works on the road surface affected by a depression near the Masjid India area here were completed at 6 pm today. Accordingly, Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) ...

Californians have seen the ominous photo: It depicts a person standing next to a telephone pole that bears a series of signs labeled with years. At the top of the pole is a sign that reads “1962.” ...

The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS-DOST) on Wednesday said a coastal subsidence has been observed in Barangay Hagnaya, San Remigio, Cebu after the magnitude 6.9 ...

To the editor: This article (“Central Valley homeowners are watching property values sink with the land,” Aug. 13) makes clear subsidence is not just an environmental crisis. Decades of unreliable ...

Kerman, Khorasan Razavi, and Tehran provinces are the most affected by the phenomenon, ISNA quoted Zafari as saying. Land subsidence varies from 2-18 centimeters in different parts of the country, he ...