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The paper describes the land subsidence monitoring project for the city of Aguascalientes, Mexico, and includes a brief analysis of the results obtained during the first year of work. The monitoring is carried out by means of geodetic surveys with GPS equipment over 60 points established on selected sites as the most representative of the ground faults detected within the urban spot.
The objective is to describe the horizontal and vertical behaviour, in order to later infer, by using mathematical models, the faulting behaviour of the land in the years to come. The results show subsidence of 18 centimetres in some points of the city and a close relationship between groundwater extraction and land subsidence.
The works performed are part of an interdisciplinary project in which geotechnics, geophysics, geohydrology and civil engineering studies are carried out, where the National Institute of Statistics, Geography and Informatics (INEGI) is participating as a member of the “Interinstitutional Committee for Geologic Faults and Ground Failures” mainly conformed by some state and municipal governmental institutions, decentralized public offices and some organizations representative of civil society.
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Esquivel, R., Hernández, A., Zermeño, M.E. (2006). GPS for Subsidence Detection, the Case Study of Aguascalientes. In: Sansò, F., Gil, A.J. (eds) Geodetic Deformation Monitoring: From Geophysical to Engineering Roles. International Association of Geodesy Symposia, vol 131. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-38596-7_31
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