Brandy Alger shows how liquefaction occurs due to earthquakes, using a shaketable in the geomechanics laboratory at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch.
Liquefaction was a huge problem during the Canterbury earthquake sequence of 2010 to 2011, with thousands of homes rendered uninhabitable as a result. Where once there were houses is now a large expanse of grass, trees and abandoned streets in the Red Zone of Christchurch
Te Hiranga Rū QuakeCoRE ( www.quakecore.nz/ ) is a collaboration of earthquake researchers that together constitute the New Zealand Centre for Earthquake Resilience.
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