San Antonio among several large Texas cities sinking at rapid rates, study finds

SAN ANTONIO – San Antonio is considered among the fastest-sinking cities in the United States, according to a geologic study.

The study, published May 8 in the journal Nature Cities, detailed the precarious positions of the 28 largest cities, per 2020 U.S. Census data, with high land subsidence rates.

Researchers described land subsidence as “a slow-moving hazard with adverse environmental and socioeconomic consequences worldwide.”…

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