The January 1 Noto Peninsula Earthquake caused widespread liquefaction. Houses and roads sustained damage when loosely packed, waterlogged sediments at or near the ground surface lost their strength.

“I had never even thought about the possibility of liquefaction,” she said. “I will not return here anymore.” Harunobu Minami, her next-door neighbor, intends to stay in the district ...

IN 1869, when the first number of NATURE appeared, Andrews had just completed his experiments on carbonic acid, and established the fact that for each gas there is a critical temperature above ...

In earthquake-prone countries like Japan, one of the critical risks to infrastructure is liquefaction, a phenomenon where intense shaking causes loose, water-saturated soils to lose their strength ...