MANILA, Philippines - A segment of C-5 Road that runs through Taguig is among the areas that may crumble during an earthquake due to a phenomenon called liquefaction, a city official said yesterday.

Liquefaction is a phenomenon in which the strength and stiffness of a soil is reduced by earthquake shaking or other rapid loading. Liquefaction can cause major damage during an earthquake. In this ...

Floating on land: this storm drain was pushed up through the road in Christchurch by liquefaction caused by the 2010 Canterbury earthquake. (Courtesy: Martin Luff/CC BY-SA 2.0) Contrary to ...

As Mexico reels from the destruction of a recent earthquake, a strange phenomenon has surfaced on its streets. Video shows a patch of asphalt rising and buckling as if a large animal were taking big, ...

image: Soil liquefaction is a ground response during earthquakes in which the ground turns from solid into a fluid medium similar to quicksand and detrimental to structures. The 2010 Canterbury ...

Soil liquefaction caused by a massive earthquake that struck the Noto Peninsula in central Japan on Jan. 1, 2024, has complicated local efforts to redraw land boundaries in some disaster-hit areas.