Review of soil liquefaction characteristics during major earthquakes of the twenty-first century

• Published in: Natural hazards (Dordrecht) Vol. 65; no. 3; pp. 2375 - 2384
• Main Authors: Huang, Yu, Yu, Miao
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 01.02.2013; Springer; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Buildings; Civil Engineering; Damage; Earth and Environmental Science; Earth Sciences; Earth, ocean, space; Earthquakes; Earthquakes, seismology; Engineering and environment geology. Geothermics; Environmental Management; Environmental policy; Exact sciences and technology; Foundations; Geophysics/Geodesy; Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences; Hydrogeology; Infrastructure; Internal geophysics; Liquefaction; Natural Hazards; Natural hazards: prediction, damages, etc; Review Article; Sand; Sandy soils; Seismic activity; Seismic phenomena; Seismology; Soil (material); Lateral spread; Re-liquefaction; Deep soil liquefaction; Liquefaction-induced damage; Gravelly soil; Liquefaction characteristics; strength; foundations; liquefaction; stiffness; earthquakes; sand; natural disaster damages; boiling; buildings; aftershocks; seismic intensity; infrastructures; soils

Liquefaction, which can be defined as a loss of strength and stiffness in soils, is one of the major causes of damage to buildings and infrastructure during an earthquake. To overcome a lack of comprehensive analyses of seismically induced liquefaction, this study reviews the characteristics of liqu...