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 ...

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

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 ...

Soil liquefaction—the process where saturated soil loses its structure and transforms to a fluid-like state—can have devastating outcomes, as evidenced by the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011.

PORTLAND, Ore. (KGW) - Portland State University researchers are testing a brand-new way to protect buildings during earthquakes. They simulated an earthquake using a massive mobile field shaker known ...

Yingqing Qiu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Sustainable Engineering at Santa Clara University (SCU). She received her Ph.D. in Geotechnical Earthquake ...

Seismic activity is highly complex, and even with advanced data analytics tools there are still many unknown factors in seismic design ...