Liquefaction only needs a few seconds to develop, but its effects are long-lasting. Sandy soils, silt, and gravel get separated with groundwater from a large earthquake, resulting in large ground ...

particularly in the city of Christchurch, and much of that from soil liquefaction. A massive dataset of 15,000 liquefaction case histories from the sequence won a 2021 DesignSafe Dataset Award.

Liquefaction is another issue stemming from the quakes. Soil turning to liquid after an earthquake was scary, seen all over Christchurch as the quakes hit; pictures of soil turning to slush ...

Liquefaction is a phenomenon where saturated ... reported in several previous Indonesian earthquakes, major quakes in Christchurch, New Zealand in 2010 and 2011, and the Great Alaska Earthquake ...