120 Land Surface Subsidence: Processes, Impacts, and Ongoing Challenges
This session explores the diverse causes, impacts, and monitoring of land subsidence, including the relationship with sea-level rise, to advance subsidence understanding and mitigation strategies.
Monday, 20 October 2025
1:30 PM - 5:30 PM
HBGCC, 210AB
Subsidence Around the World 2023–25
Paper number: 120-1
Program: Technical Sessions
Time: 1:35 PM – 1:50 PM
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Abstract
This presentation summarizes land subsidence during 2023-2025 as reported in the news media worldwide. Subsidence during the past two years occurred from groundwater extraction, hydrocarbon production, hydrocompaction, tunneling, loading of squishy sediment, drought-induced soil shrinkage, thawing permafrost, karst, mining, and other causes. News reports described the magnitude and areal extent and damage from subsidence and its effects on infrastructure at various locations in the U.S., England, India, Iran, China, Indonesia, Vietnam, Korea, Russia, Taiwan, Brazil, and elsewhere. Threats from land subsidence have spurred, in some cases, unusual public policy decisions and spawned a market for subsidence insurance.
Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 57, No. 6
doi: 10.1130/abs/2025AM-412737
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