How to Use liquefaction in a Sentence

liquefaction

noun

• But in the east, where the ground was prone to liquefaction, entire suburbs have been razed.
  — Nick Perry, Star Tribune, 19 Feb. 2021
• But a rare phenomenon known as soil liquefaction would soon spell its doom.
  — Paul Cooper, Discover Magazine, 26 July 2019
• Because so many sewage treatment plants are built in areas prone to liquefaction, wastewater systems could be down for even longer.
  — Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune, 14 Mar. 2021
• At its center is a giant liquefaction plant, fed by two pipelines that carry gas from up to 15 miles away.
  — Ricky Carioti, Washington Post, 5 July 2024
• And in some places, liquefaction swept away entire neighborhoods and villages.
  — Ben Otto and I Made Sentana, WSJ, 8 Oct. 2018
• New pipelines and gas liquefaction facilities take years to build.
  — Ivana Kottasová and Charles Riley, CNN, 8 Feb. 2022
• The temblor set off a tsunami as well as a phenomenon called liquefaction in which wet soil is collapsed by the shaking.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 27 Sep. 2019
• If there’s enough moisture present in the soil, sedimentary ground is also prone to liquefaction.
  — Corinne Purtillstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2023
• The Total liquefaction project has been in the works for years under different owners.
  — Sarah McFarlane, WSJ, 20 Aug. 2020
• The faults cross the Delta where ground shaking during an earthquake poses a risk of liquefaction to the levee system.
  — Gary Robbins, sandiegouniontribune.com, 15 Apr. 2018
• Thirteen buildings that are not retrofitted are also in liquefaction zones, areas where the ground can break during an earthquake.
  — Sandhya Kambhampati, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2024
• Recent earthquakes in this area have caused secondary hazards such as landslides and liquefaction that might have contributed to losses.
  — Southern California Weather Report, Daily News, 12 July 2026
• The southern half of the San Fernando Valley is a large liquefaction zone.
  — Rong-Gong Lin Ii, latimes.com, 23 Mar. 2018
• That’s because vibrations were breaking the adhesion between the piles and the sand—an effect called liquefaction.
  — David Owen, The New Yorker, 29 May 2017
• Many California cities lie atop soft sediments that can act like quicksand when shaken — a process called liquefaction.
  — Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2019
• Worst of all, because earthquakes are hard to predict, liquefaction is almost impossible to prepare for.
  — Kyle Frischkorn, Smithsonian, 29 June 2017
• A lot of the growth in liquefaction capacity has been driven by a goal to replace Russia’s gas lost because of the war in Ukraine.
  — Ian Dexter Palmer, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2024
• Living in a liquefaction zone — the Bay Area's riskiest neighborhoods.
  — Benjamin Oreskes, latimes.com, 23 Sep. 2017
• The expected subduction would cause the entire area to abruptly sink up to seven feet; the shaking could cause liquefaction of sandy soils before the tsunami reached shore.
  — New York Times, 7 Feb. 2022
• The recent mood has been enough to prompt a wave of commitments to build LNG liquefaction facilities.
  — Rochelle Toplensky, WSJ, 24 Oct. 2022
• But the Russia-Ukraine war has caused a boom in the number of gas liquefaction facilities, which allow the gas to be exported on ships.
  — Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 25 Oct. 2023
• The most severe damage would occur near the fault and in areas built on soft or water-saturated soils, which can amplify shaking and increase the risk of liquefaction.
  — Brandi D. Addison, USA Today, 13 June 2026
• Pembina also needs the department to grant easements to use state land and waterways to build the gas liquefaction terminal, shipping berth and pipeline.
  — oregonlive, 22 May 2020
• The Houston pipeline company started up the first of 10 liquefaction units, which chill natural gas to a liquid.
  — Jordan Blum, Houston Chronicle, 4 Oct. 2019
• Of course, investments in new oil and gas wells, gas liquefaction plants, export terminals, pipelines and storage tanks today will do little or nothing to address prices or volumes over the next one or two years.
  — Allan Marks, Forbes, 3 Aug. 2022
• The second approach uses hydrothermal liquefaction to convert wet biomass into bio-oil and biochar under high temperatures and pressures.
  — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 18 Dec. 2025
• The militia’s search and rescue team was the first to scour two neighborhoods swallowed by soil liquefaction, recovering bodies before the government search and rescue agency turned up.
  — Washington Post, 11 June 2019
• Ships and tankers loaded with coal and oil can be redirected, while the ability to resell natural gas is constrained by liquefaction terminals, which are sparse in Russia and take years to build.
  — Steve Cicala, Forbes, 26 May 2022
• The same goes for cellular equipment on power poles and buildings at risk of extreme shaking, liquefaction and fire, the USGS said.
  — Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2021
• For example, evidence of liquefaction—where the shaking ground causes sand to erupt as if from small volcanoes—is hard to find in the region, likely thanks to 300 years of rainfall.
  — Max G. Levy, Wired, 23 Sep. 2021