Sentences with phrase «subsidence occurred»

The highest rates of subsidence occurred in the northern delta and in regions where natural gas and groundwater extraction is booming, such as the Menoufia Governorate and the Abu Madi gas field.

The fastest subsidence occurs in highly populated coastal areas particularly vulnerable to flooding.

Not exact matches

Furthermore, nearly 3 meters of vertical uplift occurred, contrary to observed terrestrial subsidence.

Even when seismic ruptures occur ~ 10 kilometers beneath the surface, as was the case of the Gorkha event, an earthquake causes patterns of deformation (uplift, subsidence and lateral shifts) that can reveal the geometry of the fault surface, or surfaces, involved.

Taking into account the obscuring effects of high cloud, it was found that thick low clouds decreased by more than 20 % in the eastern tropical Pacific... In contrast, most increase in low cloud amount due to doubled CO2 simulated by the NCAR and GFDL models occurs in the subtropical subsidence regimes associated with a strong atmospheric stability.»

You are cherry picking the highest ones where subsidence also happens to be occuring, and those rates are not known exactly.

We know where flooding or subsidence is likely to occur but they are often in desirable locations such as next to the sea, or next to a river or on top of a cliff that will provide nice views Do people then have to face the consequences of their action?

► Relative sea - level rise occurs where there is a local increase in the level of the ocean relative to the land, which might be due to ocean rise and / or land level subsidence.

Subsidence then occurs and the mass parcel descends and trades off potential energy for thermal energy and the parcel increases in temperature due to adiabatic compression.

Analyses of areal variations in the subsidence and rebound occurring over stressed aquifer systems, in conjunction with measurements of the hydraulic head fluctuations causing these displacements, can yield valuable information about the compressibility and storage properties of the aquifer system.