Soil liquefaction Liquefaction is a phenomenon in which the strength and stiffness of a soil is reduced by earthquake shaking or other rapid loading. #Liquefaction #physicsisfun #physics #chemistryisfun #chemistryiscool #Gyanpro #STEM #STEMedu #STEMEducation #scienceisfun #scienceisawesome #steam #steameducation | GYANPRO | Facebook

This video is extraordinarily frightening ...but very real. The scene was captured by a security camera in last month's Sulawesi earthquake in Indonesia and shows a natural phenomena rarely captured on film: liquefaction. Soil liquefaction occurs when a saturated or partially saturated soil substantially loses strength and stiffness in response to an applied stress such as shaking during an earthquake in which material that is ordinarily a solid behaves like a liquid. Scientists fear that signif