In a new study, the conventional understanding of soil liquefaction is being challenged, significantly reshaping our comprehension of earthquake-related soil deformation. Traditionally ...

Soil liquefaction has been observed and documented in earthquake-prone areas such as California, Alaska, Japan, South America, Turkey, and other places around the world.

In earthquake-prone countries like Japan, one of the critical risks to infrastructure is liquefaction, a phenomenon where intense shaking causes loose, water-saturated soils to lose their strength ...

Floating on land: this storm drain was pushed up through the road in Christchurch by liquefaction caused by the 2010 Canterbury earthquake. (Courtesy: Martin Luff/CC BY-SA 2.0) Contrary to ...

Whether as a sponsor or donor, a member or volunteer, or an employee or fellow, you can make a difference. Earthquake-induced soil liquefaction (liquefaction) is a leading cause of earthquake damage ...

As rescue and recovery efforts continue to ramp-up in earthquake-ravaged Myanmar, new details about how the geologic setting amplified the disaster are beginning to emerge. The March 28 magnitude ...

Liquefaction is a phenomenon in which the strength and stiffness of a soil is reduced by earthquake shaking or other rapid loading. Liquefaction can cause major damage during an earthquake.

Buildings can be damaged by the shaking itself or by the ground beneath them settling to a different level than it was before the earthquake (subsidence). Buildings can even sink into the ground if ...

It’s the type of soil that faces a high risk of liquefaction during an earthquake. East Bay Municipal Utilities District crews installed a new, seismically resilient drinking water pipeline ...

"(This) means that it's susceptible to a problem that we call soil liquefaction in an earthquake. Soil liquefaction causes all kinds of damage where buildings, you know, will punch into the ground ...

They can result in ground shaking, soil liquefaction, landslides, fissures, avalanches, fires and tsunamis. Between 1998 and 2017, earthquakes caused nearly 750,000 deaths globally, representing ...