Soil liquefaction that results in infrastructure damage has long been a point of contention for urban planners and engineers. Accurately predicting the soil liquefaction risk of a region could help ...

Question: My family is interested in purchasing a townhome or condominium by a marina so we can dock our boat. Someone we know is moving from the marina because of rising homeowner association dues ...

The Taipei City Government yesterday unveiled a map showing areas in the city prone to soil liquefaction, with 26.1 percent of the city having intermediate to high-level soil liquefaction potential.

A new study has found river sites in Marlborough have a high risk of liquefaction in a large earthquake. The study, co-ordinated by University of Auckland's School of Engineering, was commissioned by ...

The uncertainties involved in the assessment of earthquake ground motions, system response, physical damage, and loss make probabilistic methods for liquefaction consequence assessment central to ...

Professor Misko Cubrinovski, right, and his team investigate the impact of liquefaction after the 2016 Kaikōura earthquake on the Wellington waterfront. One of New Zealand’s leading experts on ...

The seismic time bomb ticking under the Bay Area could wreak especially widespread damage in heavily populated parts of the East Bay, according to new earthquake-hazard maps announced Thursday. Broad ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Some might say the Willamette River defines the city of Portland. Its flowing water attracts boaters, fishers, and swimmers by the thousands every year and its beauty draws ...

HAZARD MAP: A new GNS Science report has updated the liquefaction risk Hawke's Bay and found much of the region remains largely unchanged. A new report about the risk of earthquake-induced ...

Liquefaction and unstable hillsides are among the biggest risks to Wellington in a large earthquake, say officials reviewing the plans in place for the aftermath of such an event. Officials are ...

This image shows a sample comparison between the risk map generated by the researchers using AI and the officially published risk map by the Yokohama authorities. The generated risk map incorporates ...