Timeline for What is called a soil with liquefaction?
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| Jan 19, 2015 at 7:31 | comment | added | Sven Yargs | The most striking word choice I've read—and I read it back in 1989, after the Loma Prieta earthquake knocked down part of an elevated freeway in the San Francisco Bay Area that had been built on soil that liquefied during the shaking, so it was pretty memorable—was a spokesperson at the U.S. Geological survey, who described the soil's consistency during the quake as "pudding-like." (That's "pudding-like" in the U.S. "custard" sense of the word, not in the British "Yorkshire pudding" or "black pudding" sense.) | |
| Jan 19, 2015 at 6:56 | answer | added | pyobum | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jan 19, 2015 at 6:43 | history | edited | Mehdi Haghgoo | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 19, 2015 at 6:41 | comment | added | Kris | The one I cited, "Soil liquefaction," is different from that mentioned in the question. | |
| Jan 19, 2015 at 6:40 | comment | added | Kris | See also: "lateral spreading - the ground can slide down very gentle slopes or toward stream banks riding on a buried liquefied layer." "sand boils - sand-laden water can be ejected from a buried liquefied layer and erupt at the surface ..." (emphasis mine) USGS geomaps.wr.usgs.gov/sfgeo/liquefaction/aboutliq.html | |
| Jan 19, 2015 at 6:40 | comment | added | Mehdi Haghgoo | Oh sorry, I did not read the full Wikipedia article. | |
| Jan 19, 2015 at 6:35 | comment | added | Kris | "In soil mechanics the term "liquefied" was first used by Hazen[1] in reference to the 1918 failure of the Calaveras Dam in California." "... the initial movement of some part of the material might result in accumulating pressure, first on one point, and then on another, successively, as the early points of concentration were liquefied." "... so once the soil liquefies due to shaking, ..." "Buildings whose foundations bear directly on sand which liquefies will experience a sudden loss of support, ..." (emphasis mine) Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soil_liquefaction | |
| Jan 19, 2015 at 6:23 | comment | added | Peter Shor | The verb is liquefied. | |
| Jan 19, 2015 at 6:14 | history | asked | Mehdi Haghgoo | CC BY-SA 3.0 |