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Is the ground sinking in Texas?

Satellite radar (NASA OPERA / Sentinel-1 InSAR) has measured vertical ground motion across Texas since 2016. Most measured Texas cities are stable or rising. 0 of the 5 Texas cities we cover are measurably sinking. Pick a city, or check any address.

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San Antonio
-2.8 mm/yr · Direction unclear
Dallas
-0.5 mm/yr · Direction unclear
Houston
-0.1 mm/yr · Direction unclear
El Paso
+0.3 mm/yr · Direction unclear
Austin
+4.4 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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