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Proceedings: Third International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering, St. Louis, Missouri,
June 1-4, 1993, Paper No. 14.19
SYNOPSIS Several parts of north eastern India, Bangladesh and Burma were rocked by an
earthquake on August 6, 1988. The author carried out earthquake damage survey due to
liquefaction in Assam region. Wide spread liquefaction in the area was observed. Guide bunds
and approach roads of a road bridge near tezpur performed excellently against liquefaction
during the earthquake for which they were designed. Another earthquake of magnitude 6.6
visited Nepal Bihar border region which shook northern Bihar and Nepal region and was felt as
far as Jaipur in the west and Shillong in the east. Large scale liquefaction has also been
reported due to this earthquake.
Liquefaction of saturated sands has often been In early hours of August 6, 1988, a strong
one of the causes of earthquake damage to earthquake originated near Burma India border
structures resulting in loss of the life and and shook several parts of north-eastern and
property. On Augusut 6, 1988, several parts of eastern India. The origin time of this
the north, north-eastern India were rocked by an earthquake was b hours, 36 minutes and 24.6
earthquake. The tremors werP. also felt in seconds ( IST}. The magnitude of the earthquake
Nepal, Bangladesh, Burma and Soviet Union. The was reported to be 6.8 with the duration of
author c.arried out the earthquake damage survey about 2 minutes. The epicentre was located in
due to liquefaction of foundation soil in Assam Burma near Burma-India border region latitude
region during the field visit from August 11 to 25.14 north and longitude 95.125 east.
August 19, 1988. Wide spread catastrophic Figure 1 shows the general map of the area
damage due to liquefaction of embankments, giving location of epicentre and references.
bridges and foundation soil was observed.
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In the belt covering Darbhanga, Laheriasarai,
Madhubani and Jhanjharpur; sand water geysers
rising to a height of about 1 to 2m were
reported. Sand and Water vents were seen in
open areas and floors of buildings cracked with
water and sand oozing out of the cracks,
buildings and boundary walls sank and cracked.
Road embankments were reported to have cracked
at many places with sand and water gushing out.
Large number of hand tube wells have choked due
to this earthquake. Some of the details are
given in following sections.
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developed by Prakash and Gupta, which uses the
laboratory test data obtained from vibration :z:
table tests conducted on soil sample obtained A.
from site.
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The test data is plotted giving
rise vs initial effective
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overburden pressure for different relative
densities at different accelerations. The
analysis take care of the progressive nature of
liquefaction <Gupta, 1977, Prakash and Gupta,
1986}. 12
RELATIVE OENSI TV
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During the earthquake of Aug. 6, 1988, the road
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embankment and
satisfactorily.
guide bunds performed
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REFERENCES
Gupta, M.K. ( 1977>, "liquefaction of Sand during
Earthquakes", Ph.D. Thesis, University of
Roorkee.