A deposit of soil, by nature, is able to be compacted through the rearrangement of the particles within; but, water is incompressible as a property. As a result, any increase to the stress acting on a saturated soil-provided it occurs rapidly enough and is large enough to completely overcome the resistance presented by the structure(…)

WHAT IS LIQUIFACTION? During heavy ground shaking by earthquakes, liquefaction occurs when the pressure exerted by the water present in saturated soil becomes so great that the soil particles become ‘suspended’ in the water. A soil deposit that is liquefied behaves like the better known phenomena: quicksand. A few key terms: · Saturated soils: soils(…)