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.

Numerous constitutive laws have been proposed for the numerical analysis of dynamic induced liquefaction of soil materials. In order to be useful to the engineering practice, a numerical technique ...

Satellite images of the Petobo district ... to just choose whatever site they wanted.” Earthquake and soil experts say liquefaction is fairly common. It happened after the massive 9.0 magnitude ...

NCS explains how soil liquefaction and building vibrations contributed to severe damage in Myanmar-Thailand earthquake.

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 ...