Silicon Valley Land Sinking Fast

The San Francisco Bay area’s Silicon Valley is home to a plethora of wealthy tech companies, but the sinking land beneath risks leading to far worse floods in the years to come, researchers said.

This sinking, or subsidence, coupled with sea level rise, doubles the territory in Silicon Valley at risk of flooding by 2100, said the report in the journal science Advances.

Most of the San Francisco Bay shoreline is sinking by less than two millimetres a year, but in several areas we discovered subsidence rates of half an inch a year and more said the sources.