Ground motion by city › Nevada

Is the ground sinking in Nevada?

Satellite radar (NASA OPERA / Sentinel-1 InSAR) has measured vertical ground motion across Nevada since 2016. The fastest-sinking Nevada city we measure is Las Vegas at -5.3 mm/yr. 2 of the 2 Nevada cities we cover are measurably sinking. Pick a city, or check any address.

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Las Vegas
-5.3 mm/yr · Notable subsidence
Reno
-4.1 mm/yr · Direction unclear

How this is measured

SibFly reads NASA OPERA DISP-S1 (processed Copernicus Sentinel-1 radar) at a 30-meter grid and fits the multi-year trend at each cell. It is measured movement, not a model — a screening estimate from space, not an engineering survey. Developers and AI agents can pull the same data from the API.

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