GeoSure provides detailed information on subsidence and ground movement in Great Britain, which could lead to financial insurance loss. The dataset identifies areas of potential hazard and natural ground movement.
It is a 1:50 000 high-resolution dataset, providing information about six natural ground subsidence hazards in Great Britain and links these to a postcode. These six hazards are Collapsible Deposits, Compressible Ground, Soluble Rocks (dissolution), Running Sand, Landslides (slope instability), and Shrink–Swell.
This database contains a normalised hazard rating for each of the six BGS GeoSure hazards and a combined unified hazard rating for each postcode in Great Britain.
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