Uchinada, which registered a lower 5 out of 7 on Japan’s seismic ... from the epicenter of the earthquake. Town officials said they believe that soil liquefaction is responsible for damage ...

Japan has warned the next "big one" earthquake to hit its Pacific coast ... to liquid because of a quake through a process known as liquefaction. The risk of buildings toppling over would be ...

There are many sand dunes along the coast of the Sea of Japan, and liquefaction was observed in the 1983 earthquake that hit the central part of the Sea of Japan. Road in Nishiaraya in Uchinada ...

During the Great East Japan Earthquake in March 2011, soil liquefaction occurred along the coastal areas, causing major damage to buildings as well as water supplies and sewage systems.

Japan’s Earthquake Research Committee has raised ... Landslides and ground liquefaction: In mountainous or unstable areas, ...

The extent of the damage following a massive earthquake along the Sea of Japan coast on New Year ... Cracked roads, and liquefaction has also occurred in some areas. The district is home to ...

The eastern Japanese city of Urayasu, where the majority of land was formed by reclamation, saw 86 per cent of its land affected by liquefaction following the massive 2011 earthquake. It took the ...

Renew Risk, a risk modelling and analytics firm, has launched two new earthquake and typhoon models for offshore wind farms ...

Soil liquefaction has been observed and documented in earthquake-prone areas such as California, Alaska, Japan, South America, Turkey, and other places around the world. "Based on documentation of ...