Earthquakes are among nature’s most unpredictable and potentially devastating phenomena, bringing with them a wide range of ...

Imagining the sight of solid ground transforming into a gooey flowing liquid, while small geysers surge floods of sandy water ...

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.

Liquefaction is the destabilization of sand or soil when groundwater (water underground) is forced out from between grains during the shaking of a moderate or strong earthquake. If liquefaction occurs ...

Building off that past work, Citadel researcher Simon Ghanat projected how extensive liquefaction could get in Charleston during an earthquake. Already, the peninsula's existing conditions would ...

The situation is a common problem in geotechnical engineering and is exacerbated in earthquake engineering. Even if a large number of sites were instrumented to monitor liquefaction, there would be ...

During the Great East Japan Earthquake in March 2011, soil liquefaction occurred along the coastal areas, causing major damage to buildings as well as water supplies and sewage systems.