How to Use liquefaction in a Sentence

liquefaction

noun
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  • But in the east, where the ground was prone to liquefaction, entire suburbs have been razed.
    — Nick Perry, Star Tribune, 19 Feb. 2021
  • The southern half of the San Fernando Valley is a large liquefaction zone.
    — Rong-Gong Lin Ii, latimes.com, 23 Mar. 2018
  • 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
  • Plans call for an 800-mile pipeline to ship gas off the North Slope oil fields, as well as construction of a liquefaction plant on the Kenai Peninsula.
    — Nathaniel Herz, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Apr. 2018
  • 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 Total liquefaction project has been in the works for years under different owners.
    — Sarah McFarlane, WSJ, 20 Aug. 2020
  • 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
  • The recent mood has been enough to prompt a wave of commitments to build LNG liquefaction facilities.
    — Rochelle Toplensky, WSJ, 24 Oct. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • And in some places, liquefaction swept away entire neighborhoods and villages.
    — Ben Otto and I Made Sentana, WSJ, 8 Oct. 2018
  • Living in a liquefaction zone — the Bay Area's riskiest neighborhoods.
    — Benjamin Oreskes, latimes.com, 23 Sep. 2017
  • 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
  • There are fears that the death toll may sharply rise because of another phenomenon: liquefaction.
    — James Hookway, WSJ, 2 Oct. 2018
  • Now, though, European Union sanctions that prohibit the sale of gas liquefaction equipment to Russia have thrown the giant complex into doubt.
    — New York Times, 18 May 2022
  • New pipelines and gas liquefaction facilities take years to build.
    — Ivana Kottasová and Charles Riley, CNN, 8 Feb. 2022
  • To be sure, liquefaction at the terminal did slow, said Aaron Stephenson, a plant manager who camped out at the Louisiana terminal with about 40 others during the storm.
    — Naureen S Malik, Bloomberg.com, 15 Sep. 2017
  • 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
  • Many California cities lie atop soft sediments that can act like quicksand when shaken — a process called liquefaction.
    — Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2019
  • 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
  • About liquefaction: Sandy soils are held together by friction.
    — Bruce Barcott, Outside Online, 25 Aug. 2011
  • 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
  • Worst of all, because earthquakes are hard to predict, liquefaction is almost impossible to prepare for.
    — Kyle Frischkorn, Smithsonian, 29 June 2017
  • 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.
    — Stephen Wright, Fox News, 11 June 2019
  • In its investigation, The Times found no indications of liquefaction in the ground under Renaissance.
    — Safak Timur Safak Timur, New York Times, 11 May 2023

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