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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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 ...

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 ...

A section of Samsen Road in front of Vajira Hospital in Bangkok subsided on Wednesday morning, forming a huge sinkhole about 20 metres deep. No injuries were reported. The incident occurred at 7.13am, ...

Land subsidence in the San Joaquin Valley threatens water access and food supply. Westlands Water District leads groundwater recharge with over 470 active projects. Proposition 4 funding could expand ...

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 ...

Insurers have paid out £150 million for subsidence so far this year. But more than half of people don’t know what to look out for to make a claim. Thousands of property owners have claimed on their ...

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Subsidence-related insurance claims totalled £153 million in the first half of 2025, as households felt the impact of the warm and sunny weather, according to figures from the Association of British ...

Crews work on April 17, 2024, pouring concrete into a mine subsidence that first opened up on April 14, 2024, in Toby’s Creek behind Luzerne Lumber. Decades after underground coal mining all but ended ...