land subsidence

常见例句

This decrease in the water table is a major contributor to land subsidence — New Orleans, like Venice, is sinking.
地下水位的降低則是地表陷沒的元兇，而新奧爾良，和威尼斯城一樣，正在下陷。
Buried tidal marsh or coastal forest soils point to sudden land subsidence of about 1 meter occurring at the same time from Vancouver Island to Northern California.
埋在地下的潮汐沼澤及沿海森林土壤使溫哥華至加利福尼亞州北部一帶的地麪沉降1米左右。
"Other key factors are land subsidence caused by human activities, including over-exploitation of groundwater and massive construction of high buildings in coastal areas, " Liu said.
其他的重要因素是由人類自身活動，如地下水的過度開採，沿海地區高層建築物的過度建設，所導致的地麪沉降

Other aspects of climate change and land subsidence significantly exacerbate this effect though the relative importance of these factors varies from location.
UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES
The average settling, or subsidence, was about the same as it was measured on land - about six millimeters a year.
NPR: Satellite Imagery Shows a Sinking New Orleans