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Preliminary Investigation of Sudden Ground Subsidence and Building Tilt in Balitai Town, Tianjin City, on 31 May 2023
- Source :
- Remote Sensing, Vol 15, Iss 19, p 4891 (2023)
- Publication Year :
- 2023
- Publisher :
- MDPI AG, 2023.
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Abstract
- A short-term rapid subsidence event occurred in the Bi Guiyuan community in Balitai Town, Tianjin City, leading to the tilting of high-rise buildings and the emergency evacuation of over 3000 residents. In response to this incident, InSAR (Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar) technology was swiftly employed to monitor the subsidence in the area before and after the event. Our observations indicate that the region had maintained stability for 8 months prior to the incident. However, over the course of the 15-day event, the ground experienced more than 10mm of subsidence. By integrating the findings from an InSAR analysis with geological studies, we speculate that the rapid subsidence in the region is related to the extraction of geothermal resources. It is suspected that during drilling operations, the wellbore mistakenly penetrated a massive underground karst cavity. Consequently, this resulted in a sudden rapid leakage of drilling fluid, creating a pressure differential that caused the overlying soil layers to collapse and rapidly sink into the cavity. As a result, short-term rapid subsidence on the ground surface and tilting of high-rise buildings occurred.
- Subjects :
- sudden ground subsidence
InSAR
geological cavities
well leakage
Science
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 20724292
- Volume :
- 15
- Issue :
- 19
- Database :
- Directory of Open Access Journals
- Journal :
- Remote Sensing
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- edsdoj.4b0c74146d247c9b47610ac7756c2c2
- Document Type :
- article
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.3390/rs15194891