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2022-02-05 18:44
Land subsidence reveals ancient underground village
TEHRAN –An ancient underground village has recently been unearthed in Margh Malek Village, southwestern Chaharmahal-Bakhtiari province after a vast area was subsided, a local official has announced.
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2021-10-02 20:37
Land subsidence worrisome: GSI
TEHRAN – Lands across Iran are vastly subsiding, a threat which is being turned into an acute crisis, Alireza Shahidi, head of the Geological Survey and Mineral Explorations Organization (GSI), has warned.
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2021-07-06 18:00
By Faranak Bakhtiari
Land subsidence sinking Iran
TEHRAN – Out of 31 Iranian provinces, 29 are vastly subsiding and increasingly vulnerable, so that officials need to make urgent decisions in this regard.
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2021/05/31
By Faranak Bakhtiari
‘Silent earthquake’ casts shadow over environment
TEHRAN – Geologists call subsidence a “silent earthquake” because an earthquake is instantaneous and its effects are visible at the same time, but subsidence is the cause of environmental depletion and its impact appears gradually; which is getting a big threat in the country.
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2020-10-02 19:17
By Mehdi Garshasbi
Land subsidence: an urgent problem that needs a different mindset
Land subsidence by definition is the lowering of ground level from certain elevation references. The rates of subsidence can commonly vary between 1 and 20 centimeters per year and even more in certain places.
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2019-09-03 21:38
‘Tehran experiencing subsidence rate of 5 mm a year’
TEHRAN – The capital city of Tehran sinks about 5 millimeters annually, Masoud Shafiei, an official with Tehran Urban Research and Planning Center told ISNA news agency on Tuesday.
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2019-08-04 21:43
Tehran exposed to landslide, land subsidence
TEHRAN – Landslide and land subsidence are the two major threats in the Iranian capital city of Tehran, which will pose threat to the lives of at least 3 million people, Ali Beitollahi, secretary of the national working group on natural disasters has warned.
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2019-06-19 17:55
Alborz province sinks 29cm annually, NCC warns
TEHRAN – Iran’s National Cartographic Center (NCC) has warned that northcentral Alborz province, adjacent to Tehran, is suffering from land subsidence by an annual rate of 29 centimeters, which must be tackled before incurring great loss, IRNA reported on Tuesday.
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2019-06-08 19:44
18 densely populated provinces threatened by land subsidence, study reveals
TEHRAN – According to a study carried out by the Transport, Housing and Urban Development Research Center, some 18 densely populated provinces are vastly subsiding and consequently become increasingly vulnerable to flooding and natural incidents as well as bearing huge infrastructure damage.
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2019-04-17 23:00
Land subsidence an overlooked threat to the country: expert
TEHRAN – Although land subsidence is too subtle to be detected, it must be tackled before incurring great loss, which has been proved to be more destructive than flood and earthquake, deputy director for Iran National Cartographic Center has said.
