Soil liquefaction is an example of a natural hazard where saturated soil substantially loses strength and stiffness in response to stress, typically due to earthquake-related shaking or other ...

Once the soil is saturated ... Areas of land near rivers or close to sea level may be prone to liquefaction hazards. Examples may include coastlines, marshes, areas with artificial fills and ...

Soil liquefaction has been observed and documented ... Researchers sought to understand, for example, why some hospitals suffered earthquake damage and others did not. "We studied the spatial ...

One of its characteristics is it takes time to recover (from liquefaction damage),” Yoshiharu Yokoyama, an executive at Jibannet, which provides soil analysis services. Conditions that could ...

The proposed procedure is applied to assess the soil liquefaction potential, which is found to be considerably affected by the inherent spatial variability of soil properties. Parametric studies, ...

Myanmar quake: Soil liquefaction caused severe damage, says Indian agency NCS Soil liquefaction when soil loses its characteristics and behaves like thick liquid was also one of the reasons for ...

Soil liquefaction was also a major cause of the damage, said O P Mishra, head of the NCS.Soil liquefaction happens during a strong earthquake, when the ground starts acting like a liquid instead ...