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The field survey showed that fissures alignment is coincident with the escarpments produced on 19 September 1985, when a strong earthquake with magnitude 8.1 struck central Mexico. In order to detect and map the spatio-temporal features of the processes that led to the 2012 ground fissures, we applied InSAR  multi-temporal techniques to process ENVISAT-ASAR and RADARSAT-2 satellite SAR images acquired between 2003 and 2012. We detect up to 20 mm\/year of subsidence of the northwestern part of Ciudad Guzm\u00e1n. These incremental movements are consistent with the ground fissures observed in 2012. Based on interferometric results, field data and 2D numerical model, we suggest that ground deformations and fissuring are due to the presence of areal subsidence correlated with variable sediment thickness and differential compaction, partly driven by the exploitation of the aquifers and controlled by the distribution and position of buried faults.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs70708610","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2015,7,8]],"date-time":"2015-07-08T10:10:02Z","timestamp":1436350202000},"page":"8610-8630","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":62,"title":["Land subsidence, Ground Fissures and Buried Faults: InSAR Monitoring of Ciudad Guzm\u00e1n (Jalisco, Mexico)"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"7","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0862-8161","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Carlo","family":"Brunori","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Rome 00143, Italy"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8632-9979","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Christian","family":"Bignami","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Rome 00143, Italy"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2772-2401","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Matteo","family":"Albano","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Rome 00143, Italy"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Francesco","family":"Zucca","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra e dell'Ambiente, Universit\u00e0 di Pavia, Pavia 27100, Italy"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Sergey","family":"Samsonov","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Canada Centre for Mapping and Earth Observation, Natural Resources Canada, Ottawa, ON K1A 0E4, Canada"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Gianluca","family":"Groppelli","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto per la Dinamica dei Processi Ambientali, Milan 20133, Italy"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Gianluca","family":"Norini","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto per la Dinamica dei Processi Ambientali, Milan 20133, Italy"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-9499-3960","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Michele","family":"Saroli","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile e Meccanica, Universit\u00e0 degli Studi di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale, Via di Biasio, Cassino 03043, Italy"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Salvatore","family":"Stramondo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Rome 00143, Italy"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2015,7,7]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"358","DOI":"10.1111\/j.1745-6584.1977.tb03180.x","article-title":"Land subsidence and cracking due to ground-water depletion","volume":"15","author":"Bouwer","year":"1977","journal-title":"Ground Water"},{"key":"ref_2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"317","DOI":"10.1029\/2004EO340002","article-title":"InSAR permanent scatterer analysis reveals ups and downs in San Francisco Bay Area","volume":"85","author":"Ferretti","year":"2004","journal-title":"Eos Trans. 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