Hi Wendy:
Thanks for the information. I will read up on it.
The house I rent and live in is only one mile from liquifaction soil. Most of the 210 and 118 freeway, from Sunland Blvd to to 405 freeway was all built on liquifaction ground. Much of this same soil was where the sections of the 14 freeway collapsed and all that was left was the truck and car on that one section that did not come down, when the 1994 Northridge earthquake hit. That picture of that spot was shown around the world for days.
I had to go on surface streets from 6 months to a year, because it took them that long to repair the damage to those two freeways.
What was interesting was the 5 and 405 freeways suffered little or no damage, but the newly built 210 and 118 freeway had been badly damaged.
I remember that two days after that earthquake I went to work. The office was less than a mile from the center and just when I got my call through to my boss to let her know that I was there we had another aftershock. That one was a 5.7. Under my desk I went while on the phone with her.
It was quite a shock, though, our office building suffered very little damage as close as it was. The quake damage pretty much went to a northeast direction through the valley from the center where most of the damage occured. Our office was west of the center.
They have monitors all over the valley, the center was a 6.7, but yet where I lived it registered a 7 and yet we were 21 miles from the center. I think the liquifaction may have caused much of the rise in the degree.
There are still hundreds of homes not repaired from that quake. The insurance companies have been draging their feet.
For the longest time, there were dumpster bins on the streets in front of hundreds of homes for months.
In closing, I remember one morning going to work and I was stopped at a light. Then right before me a street light was swaying in the dark and all I could think was, another one, but then I realized that a truck had backed into it and that was why it was moving. I laughed.
Liane