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State of the Art and Practice in Earthquake Induced Soil Liquefaction Assessment

Earthquake-induced soil liquefaction, often described as the phenomena of seismic generation of excess porewater pressures and consequent softening of granular soils, is a leading cause of earthquake ...
CU Boulder News & Events

Liquefaction triggered Slopes failure under Combined Rainfall and Earthquake Loading

This research experimentally investigates how rainfall infiltration and earthquake shaking interact to trigger liquefaction and permanent ground deformation in slopes composed of granular soils. While ...
PBS

Liquefaction Fix: How Microbes Could Save Pacific Northwest Buildings

Can soil microbes stop the Cascadia earthquake from liquefying the ground? Something big is coming to the Pacific Northwest. The Cascadia megathrust earthquake — a predicted magnitude 9 — isn’t a ...
Post and Courier

Charleston’s filled wetlands are some of the city's most earthquake-vulnerable areas. Here’s why.

SUMMERVILLE — The earth beneath Summerville has been unsettled in recent days. Since Feb. 3, three small-scale temblors have rattled the area around Flowertown. None of those events have cracked a ...