Granular materials, like sand, appear like a solid, but under certain circumstances they can suddenly behave like a liquid. How this exactly happens is still a physical mystery. Water can play a role, ...

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 ...

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 ...

(Reuters) - Liquefied soil caused numerous buildings to collapse in the Indonesian city of Palu after Friday's magnitude 7.5 earthquake, which has killed more than 800 people. Here's a brief ...

Woodside Energy is struggling to secure long-term buyers for its Louisiana LNG project due to higher-than-market liquefaction fees, forcing the company to reconsider its pricing strategy.

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 ...

Much more complex Overturning a long-held assumption could change our understanding of when and where soil liquefaction will occur in earthquakes, say US researchers. Their study is published today in ...

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.