Rivers of soil swept away entire neighborhoods in Indonesia following a powerful earthquake last week that also generated a tsunami in a disaster that has killed at least 1,407 people. Experts say the ...

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During an earthquake, soil can weaken through subsidence and liquefaction. These processes can cause buildings to collapse as the soil becomes unable to support their weight. Researchers have now ...

Liquefaction, which Indonesian officials said Monday had destroyed several thousand homes in and around the city of Palu during the earthquake on Friday, is one of the most devastating effects of ...

Soil liquefaction, a destructive phenomenon occurring during earthquakes, has traditionally been associated with undrained conditions near the earthquake epicenter. However, new research conducted by ...

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 ...

PALU, Indonesia (Reuters) - The young man standing atop a mound of gray mud and debris on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, waiting for an excavator he hoped would dig out the bodies of his parents, ...

The government has ended the search for bodies, and desperate family members are not ready. “If God could give me just one,” one man said, “it would be enough.” By Ben C. Solomon The twin natural ...

Some earthquakes can cause the ground to behave like a thick liquid. Soil liquefaction is a leading cause of earthquake damage worldwide. Have you ever wiggled your feet in wet sand at the beach? As ...

This image shows a sample comparison between the risk map generated by the researchers using AI and the officially published risk map by the Yokohama authorities. The generated risk map incorporates ...