Days after a devastating earthquake hit Myanmar in late March 2025, killing more than 3,700 people, footage of dark-colored ...

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.

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, ...

A phenomenon called liquefaction, which causes the ground to slump like quicksand, led to significant damage after the Myanmar earthquake. The risk of aftershock remains high.

Damage from soil liquefaction was particularly serious in areas around sand dunes and bars, often found along the Sea of Japan, said Shigeki Senna, a member of the NIED’s research team.

Soil liquefaction -- when soil loses its characteristics and behaves like thick liquid -- was also one of the reasons for damage, O P Mishra, the head of the National Centre for Seismology (NCS ...

But computer simulations are helping scientists and engineers improve predictions for liquefaction—a sometimes deadly earthquake effect where the soil loses its stiffness, thus toppling ...

Monte Carlo simulations of soil liquefaction are performed for a saturated soil deposit subjected to seismic excitation, and the predicted excess pore pressures are compared with similar results ...

In particular, the course will consider three topics of current professional and research interest: probabilistic seismic hazard analysis (PHSA), soil liquefaction, and seismically induced ...

His main areas of research are shake table tests on deep and shallow foundations; liquefaction and laterally spreading grounds; mitigation measures for foundations in liquefiable soils; nonlinear site ...

The ballooning costs for Yumeshima island in Osaka Bay follow revelations of soil liquefaction and contamination that would jeopardize the structural integrity of the land if not dealt with properly.