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unusual facts about soil liquefaction


Soil liquefaction

It was also a major factor in the destruction in San Francisco's Marina District during the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, and in Port of Kobe during the 1995 Great Hanshin earthquake.


1997 Punitaqui earthquake

The extensive damage to structures was the result of an amplification effect on the ground and the poor quality of building materials, this reflects the potential for damage incurred in an intraplate earthquake with vertical fault and how it can be much greater than what which can cause one of interplate of similar magnitude, and caused severe damage in Chilean cities of La Serena, Ovalle, Illapel and Punitaqui.

Avondale, Canterbury

During the 2010 -2011 Christchurch earthquake's, Avondale was hit hard by damage to land and buildings due to Soil liquefaction, part of Avondale being put into the residential red zone.

Bexley, New Zealand

In the earthquake of September 2010 over 100 houses in the suburb were rendered uninhabitable by silt and subsidence due to soil liquefaction.


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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.