Civil Thinking

Liquefaction

  • Wet, unconsolidated sand turns into a slurry when shaken
  • Often occurs in locations where cities have created artificial land which were once underwater (fill)
    • San Francisco Marina District
    • Seattle
    • Washington DC

Cool “natural laboratory” example:

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