A phenomenon called liquefaction, which causes the ground to slump like quicksand, led to significant damage after the Myanmar earthquake. The risk of aftershock remains high.

India's earthquake monitoring agency, the National Centre for Seismology (NCS), has said the earthquake that hit Myanmar and ...

Soil liquefaction is an example of a natural hazard where saturated soil substantially loses strength and stiffness in ...

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.

A massive earthquake struck Myanmar and Thailand, causing severe damage due to soil liquefaction and frequency matching with ...

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

The proposed procedure is applied to assess the soil liquefaction potential, which is found to be considerably affected by the inherent spatial variability of soil properties. Parametric studies, ...

Earthquake-induced soil liquefaction (liquefaction) is a leading cause of earthquake damage worldwide. Liquefaction is often described in the literature as the phenomena of seismic generation of ...

A powerful earthquake struck Myanmar and Thailand, causing severe structural damage due to soil liquefaction and matching ...

Over the weekend, powerful earthquakes hit Myanmar and Thailand, killing over 1,000 people and causing widespread devastation ...

Myanmar quake: Soil liquefaction caused severe damage, says Indian agency NCS Soil liquefaction when soil loses its characteristics and behaves like thick liquid was also one of the reasons for ...

Soil liquefaction was also a major cause of the damage, said O P Mishra, head of the NCS.Soil liquefaction happens during a strong earthquake, when the ground starts acting like a liquid instead ...