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Researchers Find SFO Runways Sinking Faster Compared To Other Coastal Airports
The researchers are in town to present their findings at the AGU 23 conference, put on by the American Geophysical Union.
December 13, 2023
SAN FRANCISCO INT'L AIRPORT – As San Francisco International Airport prepares for what is expected to be a busy holiday travel season, a new study has found the airports runways are sinking at a faster rate compared to other runways around the country.
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Day in and day out, planes take off and touch down SFO. But according to researchers Oluwaseyi Dasho and Manoochehr Shirzaei, of Virginia Tech, those runways are sinking.
"We don't want to imply that there is a danger, that they have to be concerned. But this is a warning for the future, and that future is not that far," said Shirzaei.
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