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 ...

The January 1 Noto Peninsula Earthquake caused widespread liquefaction. Houses and roads sustained damage when loosely packed, waterlogged sediments at or near the ground surface lost their strength.

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

Liquefaction only needs a few seconds to develop, but its effects are long-lasting. Sandy soils, silt, and gravel get separated with groundwater from a large earthquake, resulting in large ground ...

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 ...