Ground motion by city › New Mexico

Is the ground sinking in New Mexico?

Satellite radar (NASA OPERA / Sentinel-1 InSAR) has measured vertical ground motion across New Mexico since 2016. Most measured New Mexico cities are stable or rising. 0 of the 1 New Mexico cities we cover are measurably sinking. Pick a city, or check any address.

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Albuquerque
-1.3 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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