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unusual facts about liquefaction



1838 Vrancea earthquake

During this earthquake, in some areas, especially the epicentral zone, mainly in Vrancea, Buzău, Brăila and Dâmbovița counties appeared large ground cracks and liquefaction phenomena.

331st Air Expeditionary Group

Despite the hazards of bad weather, fighter attacks, and heavy flak, the 331st bombed the coal liquefaction plant at Ube, the Mitsubishi-Hayama petroleum complex at Kawasaki, and the oil refinery and storage facilities at Shimotsu, in July and August 1945, and received a Distinguished Unit Citation for the missions.

Avonside

Another aftershock struck in June causing liquefaction and flooding along with damaging houses and the infrastructure of the suburb even more.

Banagas

Banagas (formally the Bahrain National Gas Company) is a large natural gas company in Riffa, Bahrain which operates a gas liquefaction plant.

Barbadoes Street Cemetery

Memorials, obelisks and headstones were damaged in the February 2011 Christchurch earthquake and silt from liquefaction covers part of the cemetery.

Bexley, New Zealand

Flooding from soil liquefaction again caused serious flooding, and damaged roads and services in February 2011 from the February 2011 Christchurch earthquake.

Lurgi–Ruhrgas process

In Lukavac, Bosnia and Herzegovina, two retorts for liquefaction of lignite were in operation from 1963 to 1968.

Oxyliquit

The explosive properties of these mixtures were discovered in Germany in 1895 by Prof. Carl von Linde, a developer of a successful machine for liquefaction of gases, who named them oxyliquits.

PNG Gas

Engineering, Construction and Procurement (EPC) company Clough Curtain Joint Venture (CCJV) was awarded the contract for liquefaction plant and upstream infrastructure work in June 2009 and September 2010 respectively.

Seismic microzonation

Seismic microzonation is defined as the process of subdividing a potential seismic or earthquake prone area into zones with respect to some geological and geophysical characteristics of the sites such as ground shaking, liquefaction susceptibility, landslide and rock fall hazard, earthquake-related flooding, so that seismic hazards at different locations within the area can correctly be identified.

Shenhua

Shenhua CTL, a planned coal liquefaction plant in Ningdong, Ningxia, China

Thixotropy

Thixotropy has been proposed as a scientific explanation of blood liquefaction miracles such as that of Saint Januarius in Naples.


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