The worst hit was south-eastern England, where buildings are well-known for being constructed on subsidence-prone clay soil. Subsidence happens when the ground beneath a building loses moisture ...

In other cases, leaking drains or pipes soften the soil causing movement of the foundation. Diagonal cracks on the inside and outside of your property extending to ground level are the most common ...

TASS/. Soil subsidence became the cause of loss of containment by the tank with oil products in Norilsk, official spokesman of the Office of General Prosecutor Andrei Ivanov told reporters.

Two years into the programme, significant headway has been made in linking up subsurface activities, subsidence, soil-structure interaction and building damage. “The focus until now has been on three ...

Human activity is causing subsidence in large areas of the Netherlands. Primary causes are the lowering of the groundwater level to keep our feet dry and the construction of residential areas and ...