Land subsidence is an extensive geological disaster.It makes great destruction on ground establishments

and bring changes to underground environment.The impacts on industry

urban construction and living are profound and huge.Many international scholars proposed many approaches to predict land subsidence due to groundwater withdrawal according to different geological condition and groundwater withdrawal practice.There are so many approaches to predict and calculate land subsidence.This paper analyzed the mechanism of subsidence due to withdrawal of groundwater based on effective stress principle.Then according to the different analytical theories

the prediction methods are summarized into five categories: statistical model

numerical analysis in early stage

quisi-3D analysis

and 3D analysis.This paper emphasizes the quisi-3D analysis method which is in common use.This is an integrative method combined 3D groundwater seepage and 1D consolidation.It was applied to analyse land subsidence of Boso peninsula in Japan.