USGS - International Survey on Land Subsidence Database Skip Navigation LinksHome / SubsidencePhotos
Navigation Menu
.
  All Public Photos in Database
PhotoID 15 If there is related case data clicking this image will take you to the record details.
Short description of scene
Development of a new irrigation well in west-central Florida triggered hundreds of sinkholes.
PhotoID 15 If there is related case data clicking this image will take you to the record details.
Short description of scene
Development of a new irrigation well in west-central Florida triggered hundreds of sinkholes.
PhotoID 19 If there is related case data clicking this image will take you to the record details.
Short description of scene
Approximate location of max subsidence in the U.S. identified by research efforts of Joseph Poland. Signs on pole show approximate altitude of land surface by year.
PhotoID 21 If there is related case data clicking this image will take you to the record details.
Short description of scene
Hurricane Alicia produced an 11 foot storm surge. Subsidence increases the frequency and intensity o
PhotoID 22 If there is related case data clicking this image will take you to the record details.
Short description of scene
Abandoned house in the Brownswood subdivision in Baytown. Pumping of groundwater caused ground to su
PhotoID 23 If there is related case data clicking this image will take you to the record details.
Short description of scene
House wracked by surface faulting--a manifestation of flexure of land surface.
PhotoID 27 If there is related case data clicking this image will take you to the record details.
Short description of scene
House wracked by surface faulting--a manifestation of flexure of land surface.
PhotoID 28 If there is related case data clicking this image will take you to the record details.
Short description of scene
Homes in Greens Bayou were flodded during a storm (Harris-Galveston Coastal Subsidence District)
PhotoID 29 If there is related case data clicking this image will take you to the record details.
Short description of scene
Older image shows ground subsided away from well foundation. Thirty years later it is still subsiding.
PhotoID 30 If there is related case data clicking this image will take you to the record details.
Short description of scene
Subsidence fissure displaces pavement.
PhotoID 31 If there is related case data clicking this image will take you to the record details.
Short description of scene
Subsidence fissure damages a building.
PhotoID 32 If there is related case data clicking this image will take you to the record details.
Short description of scene
The Central Main Lateral Canal of the CAP canal was damaged where it crosses the Picacho earth fissure. Opening of the fissure is evident as a dark line in the lower middle of the photo.
PhotoID 34 If there is related case data clicking this image will take you to the record details.
Short description of scene
By June 1989 the fissure had developed into a system of multiple parallel cracks. A fissure scarp developed as much as 2 feet of vertical offset, with the west or left side of the fissure down dropped. A lateral canal in the upper left skirts a citrus grove.
PhotoID 35 If there is related case data clicking this image will take you to the record details.
Short description of scene
1914 image: The Yacht Club (building to right) is practically at sea level. 1976 image: The Yacht Club is now about 10 feet below sea level and a high levee keeps bay water from inundating Alviso.
 
  Photo Detail


Medium size Photo Number 15 Date photo was taken
1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM

Location photo was taken


Taken by (name and or organization)


Credits or copyright information


Authorization to display the photo

Short description of scene
Development of a new irrigation well in west-central Florida triggered hundreds of sinkholes.

View related Subsidence case record
   

Take Pride in America home page. FirstGov button U.S. Department of the Interior | U.S. Geological Survey
URL:http://isols.usgs.gov
Developer: Nate Clifford
Page Overall site last updated: August 1st 2007