In April 2021, a video showing two women running across a field of wobbly, water-like grass was widely circulated on social media along with the caption "soil liquefaction." This is a genuine video.

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The massive subduction zone earthquake in Japan caused a significant level of soil "liquefaction" that has surprised researchers with its widespread severity, a new analysis shows. The findings also ...

Soil liquefaction – a natural, destructive phenomenon accompanying earthquakes – has traditionally been associated with undrained conditions near the earthquake epicenter. But new research conducted ...

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 ...

Floating on land: this storm drain was pushed up through the road in Christchurch by liquefaction caused by the 2010 Canterbury earthquake. (Courtesy: Martin Luff/CC BY-SA 2.0) Contrary to ...

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 ...

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Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this book, to buy it in print, or to download it as a free PDF. Earthquake-induced soil liquefaction (liquefaction) is a leading cause of earthquake ...