Field Site Projects and Activities
What is Liquefaction?
Exteme ground shaking during earthquakes can dramatically decrease the stability of saturated soils to the point where the soil becomes a vicsous fluid. This behavior, called liquefaction, can cause severe damage to buildings and other structures as their foundations can slide or unevenly settle.
More information on liquefaction here- High Fidelity Site Characterization
October, 2007
Site characterization at Garner Valley by observation and inversion based modeling. - NEES@UTexas Liquefaction Experiment
August, 2005
A Joint effort of USGS/NEHRP, NFS/NEHRP, NEES@UTexas and NEES@UCSB. - Garner Valley Pilot Experiment
August, 2004
A Demonstration of Multi-Institution, Multi-facility, Multi-disciplinary Science. - Related Projects
Downhole arrays and projects managed through our UCSB facilities.
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