Multifamily communities in major cities along the Atlantic Coast are subject to sinking. Columnist Lew Sichelman explores what the impacts might be. If residents of multifamily buildings along South ...

Residents of Surfside were caught off guard by new findings that several buildings in the coastal town are reportedly sinking.

The country’s 28 most populous metros are slowly sinking, according to a study published in the journal Nature Cities. The land beneath these cities is subsiding, mostly because people are using too ...

The area where a building partially collapsed in Surfside, Fla. showed signs of land subsidence in the 1990s, according to space-based radar data analyzed by an FIU professor. The 2020 land and sea ...

All the biggest US cities are sinking, a new study found with satellite analysis. In 28 cities, about 29,000 buildings are at risk of damage and worsening flooding. This sinking, or subsidence, is ...

The land underneath the largest cities in the United States is sinking, a phenomenon threatening buildings, roads and rail lines, according to new research. But that sinking, known as subsidence, is ...

During an earthquake, soil can weaken through subsidence and liquefaction. These processes can cause buildings to collapse as the soil becomes unable to support their weight. Researchers have now ...

Cities sit unmoving on the landscape — a sprawling collection of roads, sidewalks, and buildings designed to last for generations. But across the United States, urban areas are silently shifting: The ...