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Water-saturated sands, silts, and other very loosely compacted soils, when subjected to earthquake motion, may be rearranged, thereby losing their supporting strength. When this occurs, buildings may partly sink into the ground and sand and silts may come to the surface to form sand flows. In effect, the soils behave as dense fluids when liquified.
