Earthquake-induced soil liquefaction, often described as the phenomena of seismic generation of excess porewater pressures and consequent softening of granular soils, is a leading cause of earthquake ...

Professor Cubrinovski was five years old when a massive tremor hit his home city Skopje, in Macedonia, in 1963, causing over ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — The images out of Indonesia are frightening. Buildings and homes swept away by rivers of earth following last week's deadly earthquake. In some cases, entire neighborhoods that once ...

This research experimentally investigates how rainfall infiltration and earthquake shaking interact to trigger liquefaction and permanent ground deformation in slopes composed of granular soils. While ...

RIVERSIDE COUNTY, CA - the U.S. Geological Survey reported that a 4.9 magnitude quake shook close to Indio Monday afternoon. A tremor rattled the area at 5:56 p.m. The earthquake's epicenter was ...