Sentences with phrase «like subsidence»

These topics may include things like subsidence problems with the OH buildings that have been there for many years and whose foundations may be unstable.

Issues like subsidence are going to be a bit more expensive to take care of, but there are preventative measures you can put in place if you spot the problem early enough.

In more vulnerable places like Tidewater, VA, or New Orleans, or Miami, such a larger swelling of the world's ocean could translate to 2 - 3 feet due to local conditions like subsidence or ocean current change.

Not exact matches

There's a widescreen vibe to these tracks; with their patient, sometimes nearly imperceptible cycles of accretion and subsidence, they feel as much like landscapes as they do music.

The car in the pictures looks like the rear portion of the roof has dropped owing to subsidence, possibly caused by the visual weight of the blackened rear anchor of the roof bars.

Most of the Middle Mississippi River levees are currently rated Unacceptable (like 44.5 % of rated levee miles nationwide); plus there are major geotechnical issue documented by our research — subsidence and compaction and un-permitted levee modifications using road gravel that is unsuited to flood control.

These factors included: dredge and fill operations, shoreline development, over fishing, excessive boating, land subsidence and natural events like hurricanes.

Boutrous pointed out that while global sea levels are rising on average, some evidence shows that sea levels have fallen in specific regions, and coastal flooding in places like the San Francisco Bay Area is also a function of local conditions like land subsidence.

Subsidence doesn't lead to anything like several feet in a century.

Now, you do have things like isostatic rebound & subsidence, but those should tend to average out over a large enough number of tide gauges.

So you've gone through and looked at all the individual tidal gauges, corrected for local effects like post glacial rebound from the last ice age, local subsidence due to soil compaction or groundwater removal, local soil buildup due to tidal or river silt deposition, discontinuities due to earthquakes, and the like?

Their interim plan, to use any GPS stations within 15 km (I think) is only «better than nothing» and allows at least, in most cases, to correct for continental vertical land movement (VLM), but does not account for vertical movement of the structure to which the Tide Gauge is actually attached, which means that all VLM attributable to local subsidence looks like SLR at the gauge.

Low emitters that are likely to be disproportionately affected by climate change are subsidence farmers like on the great river deltas (Eg Ganges, Niger, Mekong etc).

Silver Home Insurance provides a lower level of cover, but still includes important protection against events like fire, flood, storms, subsidence, escape of water and theft.

Something like this might be categorized as subsidence issues or other items you have no control over.