Eye on earth 11.2 water-saturated sandy soil provides students an opportunity to experience the phenomenon of liquefaction. liquefaction may occur when ground shaking causes a layer of saturated material to lose strength and act like a fluid.
question 1: describe what you think will happen to a structure built on sandy soil that suddenly experienced liquefaction during an earthquake.
question 2: how might a nearly empty underground storage tank affected by liquefaction of the surrounding soil?