Civil Engineering Reference
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FIGURE 3.30
Retaining wall damage caused by the Kobe earthquake on January 17, 1995. The site is the
east bank of the Maya-ohashi Bridge (Harbor Expressway). Liquefaction caused significant lateral displace-
ment of the retaining wall, which in turn created a depression behind the wall and dropped a large truck
halfway into the water. (
Photograph from the Kobe Geotechnical Collection, EERC, University of California,
Berkeley.
)
FIGURE 3.31
Diagram depicting the construction of the retaining walls for Rokko and Port islands.
(
Photograph from the Kobe Geotechnical Collection, EERC, University of California, Berkeley.
)
