Zachary Conat, who is in Christchurch, New Zealand, with the U.S. Air Force. That was before she saw news accounts of the devastating earthquake that hit the city Tuesday. Zachary would later call ...

The shock caused considerable damage to buildings in Christchurch city centre and to houses in low-lying suburbs where the underlying soil suffered liquefaction. Apart from the earthquakes ...

Sandy soils, silt, and gravel get separated with groundwater from a large earthquake, resulting in large ground deformations and effects. Liquefaction prediction is important in efforts to rebuild ...

The 2010 Canterbury earthquake sequence caused $3 billion in damage to buildings and infrastructure on the South Island of New Zealand, particularly in the city of Christchurch, and much of that ...