During an earthquake, soil can weaken through subsidence and liquefaction. These processes can cause buildings to collapse as the soil becomes unable to support their weight. Researchers have now ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — The images out of Indonesia are frightening. Buildings and homes swept away by rivers of earth following last week's deadly earthquake. In some cases, entire neighborhoods that once ...

Unlike the San Andreas Fault — one of the most heavily studied faults in the world — scientists know comparatively little ...

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 ...

Tokyo, one of the world's most densely populated megacities, sits on a highly active seismic zone where the threat of major earthquakes is ever-present. One of the most destructive aspects of seismic ...