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New Study Maps Rate of New Orleans Sinking


Jefferson Parish, LA

Subsidence in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, from June 2009 to July 2012, as seen by NASA's UAVSAR instrument. The measured displacements are a combination of movement of the ground and of individual structures.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech, Esri

New Orleans and surrounding areas continue to sink at highly variable rates due to a combination of natural geologic and human-induced processes, finds a new NASA/university study using NASA airborne radar.

From Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA
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