Tag Archive for: Liquefaction
Liquefaction may occur when water-saturated sandy soils are subjected to earthquake ground shaking. When soil liquefies, it loses strength and behaves as a viscous liquid rather than as a solid. This can cause buildings to sink into the ground or tilt, empty buried tanks to rise to the ground surface, slope failures, nearly level ground to shift laterally tens of feet, surface subsidence, ground cracking, and sand blows.
- Land Subsidence and Earth Fissures in Cedar Valley
- Updated Landslide Maps of Utah
- GPS Monitoring of Slow-Moving Landslides
- Liquefaction in the April 15, 2010, M 4.5 Randolph Earthquake
- Glad You Asked: What are the Roots of Geobotany?
- Teacher’s Corner
- GeoSights: Devils Kitchen, Juab County, Utah
- Survey News
- Energy News: Energy Office in Transition
- New Publications
Tag Archive for: Liquefaction
Liquefaction may occur when water-saturated sandy soils are subjected to earthquake ground shaking. When soil liquefies, it loses strength and behaves as a viscous liquid rather than as a solid. This can cause buildings to sink into the ground or tilt, empty buried tanks to rise to the ground surface, slope failures, nearly level ground to shift laterally tens of feet, surface subsidence, ground cracking, and sand blows.
- Land Subsidence and Earth Fissures in Cedar Valley
- Updated Landslide Maps of Utah
- GPS Monitoring of Slow-Moving Landslides
- Liquefaction in the April 15, 2010, M 4.5 Randolph Earthquake
- Glad You Asked: What are the Roots of Geobotany?
- Teacher’s Corner
- GeoSights: Devils Kitchen, Juab County, Utah
- Survey News
- Energy News: Energy Office in Transition
- New Publications