San Francisco’s airport runways are among the fastest-sinking in the nation, research finds
San Francisco's runways are sinking more rapidly than 14 other major coastal airports, according to new research to be presented at #AGU23 this week. Sinking can cause deformation, cracks, and sinkholes, posing risks to aircraft. Credit: Liza Lester
After measuring minute elevation changes on runways at 15 coastal airports around the United States, researchers found that of airport runways sinking or subsiding, San Francisco…