Sentences with phrase «observed subsidence»
Their refined results enabled modelers to produce earthquake models that are more consistent with observed subsidence measurements seen in today's instrumented earthquakes.
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Furthermore, nearly 3 meters of vertical uplift occurred, contrary to observed terrestrial subsidence.
This rate was significantly lower than the 1.2 inches / year calculated by Stephens and Johnson (1951), and Shih et al. (1998) speculated that maintenance of higher water tables after 1978 was one of the major reasons for the observed reduction in the subsidence rate.»
The authors observe that wide variations in rates of tectonic uplift and subsidence in different locations around the world at particular times mean no effective coastal management plan can rest upon speculative computer projections regarding an idealised future global sea level, such as those provided by the United Nations» Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
The sea level is increasing by about 1.3 mm / year according to the data of the tide - gauges (after correction of the emergence or subsidence of the rock to which the tide gauge is attached, nowadays precisely known thanks to high precision GPS instrumentation); no acceleration has been observed during the last decades...»