A phenomenon called liquefaction, which causes the ground to slump like quicksand, led to significant damage after the Myanmar earthquake. The risk of aftershock remains high.

However, climate change has been hampering this growth—earthquakes and other natural hazards negatively impact buildings and other structures in their wake. Soil liquefaction is an example of a ...

NCS explains how soil liquefaction and building vibrations contributed to severe damage in Myanmar-Thailand earthquake.

But computer simulations are helping scientists and engineers improve predictions for liquefaction—a sometimes deadly earthquake effect where the soil loses its stiffness, thus toppling ...

A major earthquake in Myanmar on Friday has caused more than 3,000 deaths and led to the collapse of numerous structures.

The magnitude 7.7 earthquake was powerful, shallow and in a heavily populated region with vulnerable buildings.

Myanmar quake: Soil liquefaction caused severe damage ... followed the main earthquake of magnitude 7.5, which struck Mandalay around 11:50 am . Northeast India also felt the main earthquake ...

The powerful earthquake of 7.7 magnitude on the Richter Scale rocked Myanmar and neighboring Thailand on Friday, killing over 1,600 people while at least 3,408 others sustained injuries, according to ...