A Selwyn District Council report on liquefaction has been released to give residents, property owners and the building sector an understanding of new building requirements following the Canterbury ...
If you do not know what a liquefaction zone is, then you probably are not concerned if your home is in a liquefaction zone. However, if you own a home or want to purchase a home in the San Francisco ...
Building safer cities with AI: Machine learning model enhances urban resilience against liquefaction
The AI-based model proposed by researchers from Japan provides detailed soil stability maps, allowing smart cities to identify safe construction zones and mitigate liquefaction risks. The proposed ...
Earthquakes really pose little direct danger to a person. People can't be shaken to death by an earthquake. Some movies show scenes with the ground suddenly opening up and people falling into fiery ...
Granular materials, like sand, appear like a solid, but under certain circumstances they can suddenly behave like a liquid. How this exactly happens is still a physical mystery. Water can play a role, ...
During the next big quake, a phenomenon called liquefaction might cause buildings in low-lying areas of the Bay Area to partly sink, perhaps even below water level, while seemingly rigid steel-frame ...
The earthquake and tsunami that affected Indonesia’s Sulawesi island on Friday has, to date, killed nearly 1,350 people, a number that’s expected to rise even further as time goes on. It’s safe to say ...
Pile group interaction during lateral loading reduces lateral resistance. Based on full-scale lateral pile group testing, the reduction is a function of pile spacing, row position and soil type.
A 7.5 magnitude earthquake shook Donggala and Palu in the island of Sulawesi, Indonesia on September 28, 2018, causing destruction that killed more than 1700 people. Not long, the public was shocked ...
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