Researchers are developing ground-improvement methods to help increase the resilience of homes and low-rise structures built on top of soils prone to liquefaction during strong earthquakes.

Because ground improvement is a fraction of the cost of undercutting and replacing poor soils or installing deep foundations such as piles or caissons, many sites considered too expensive to develop ...

Curious dry craters formed in the aftermath of a disastrous earthquake are explained. The Bhuj earthquake in January 2001, with a moment magnitude of 7.7, was one of the most disastrous in India's ...

To this end, a comprehensive series of full-scale field trials of multiple shallow ground improvement methods is underway. Initial field trials at one site involving five test panels of different ...