NOW LIVE · LIQUEFACTION HAZARD ENGINE

Soil is a trillion-dollar
blind spot.

The February 2011 Christchurch earthquake alone caused an estimated US$15 billion in economic losses (Swiss Re sigma 2/2012), much of it driven by liquefaction. GeoLiquefy makes it computable: site by site, for the engineer of record.

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The blind spot

Modern civilization treats soil as a static, sacrosanct substrate: certified once, trusted indefinitely. Liquefaction risk is evaluated site by site using static snapshots, conservative assumptions, and fragmented heuristics built up over decades. These approaches work locally. They do not scale, and they are not continuous.

Meanwhile infrastructure scales relentlessly. Every road, bridge, port, data center, and city rests on soil, and more of it is being built on liquefiable ground every year. Exposure is growing faster than the tools used to assess it. Soil remains the least instrumented, least modeled component of infrastructure systems built on top of it.

The Instrument

See how ground like yours actually behaved.

Enter your site's CPT or SPT parameters and get a defensible liquefaction assessment in minutes: matched against real in-situ test records, computed by a published triggering procedure, and reasoned in language you can put in front of a reviewer.

8,634
In-situ test records from
the NGL database
354
Sites across
31 earthquakes
670 / 7,964
CPT soundings and
SPT samples

Find your closest ground truth

Enter your site's CPT or SPT parameters and pull the in-situ test records that match it most closely: real ground, real earthquakes, not a simulation.

See where the models disagree

Your site's result is computed by Boulanger & Idriss (2014) and plotted against three published reference curves, so you can see where they would disagree before you sign anything.

Leave with a defensible draft

Get an AI-drafted memo with the CSR, CRR, and factor-of-safety reasoning attached. The model computes the number. You review the reasoning and seal the work.

Implemented: Boulanger & Idriss (2014). Reference curves: Cetin (2004), Moss (2006), Idriss & Boulanger (2008). Full methodology →

Who it is for

Built for two audiences

The same case-history-grounded engine, accessed two ways.

For Geotechnical Engineers

Site-specific hazard, defensible by design

  • Query the NGL case-history database with your CPT and SPT parameters.
  • Get an AI-drafted engineering assessment with CSR, CRR, and factor-of-safety reasoning attached, computed by Boulanger & Idriss (2014), not by the AI.
  • Export to your reporting workflow. No proprietary lock-in.
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For Insurers and Cat Modelers

Liquefaction signal for portfolio risk

  • Screen liquefaction susceptibility across portfolio locations via API.
  • Liquefaction is currently treated as a damage multiplier, not a modeled hazard.
  • Draws on the same NGL dataset engineers use.
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The Engineer

GeoLiquefy does not replace geotechnical judgment.

We encode it, scale it, and make it computable.

Boulanger & Idriss (2014) computes. AI drafts the assessment memo and the engineering-readable explanation behind it: CSR, CRR, factor of safety, and citations an engineer can defend in review. The engineer of record reviews the reasoning, not just the number, and seals the final work. The memo is a draft. The judgment is theirs.

Affiliation GeoLiquefy LLC is an independent, for-profit company. The Liquefaction Hazard Engine cites the Next Generation Liquefaction (NGL) database as a data source but is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by the NGL project, its principal investigators, host institutions, or funding agencies. All NGL data is used in accordance with the NGL project's published terms of use.
People

Our Team

Achyut Tiwari
Achyut Tiwari
Founder & CEO

Emergent Ventures Fellow

Builds tools for earthquake-induced ground failure. Leads GeoLiquefy's work on liquefaction triggering and its research on probabilistic methods and lateral spread displacement.

Advisory Board

Ashok Kumar Gupta
Ashok Kumar Gupta

Senior Advisor, Geotechnical Engineering

PhD, IIT Delhi · Jaypee University of Information Technology

Professor of Civil Engineering, formerly Dean of Academics and Research. Soil dynamics, ground improvement, geotechnical earthquake engineering.

Robb Moss
Robb Moss

Senior Advisor, Seismic Hazard and Liquefaction

PhD · PE · F.ASCE · Cal Poly

Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Developed the CPT-based probabilistic triggering model used as a reference curve in the Engine. Co-Director of EERI's Learning from Earthquakes program.

Saurabh Rawat
Saurabh Rawat

Advisor, Ground Improvement and Geomechanics

PhD · National Institute of Technology Delhi

Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering. Landslide mitigation, helical soil nailing, reinforced earth systems.

Enterprise

Working on a large-scale geohazard risk assessment?

From one site to an entire portfolio: the same engine, the same published models, the same case-history record.

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Frequently asked questions

What is the Liquefaction Hazard Engine?

A tool that computes site-specific soil liquefaction hazard by matching your CPT or SPT parameters against 8,634 in-situ test records from the NGL database, computed by Boulanger & Idriss (2014), with an AI-drafted engineering assessment.

Does GeoLiquefy replace a geotechnical engineer?

No. GeoLiquefy does not replace geotechnical judgment. It encodes it, scales it, and makes it computable. The engineer of record reviews the reasoning behind every number and seals the final work.

Who is GeoLiquefy built for?

Geotechnical engineers, who get a defensible, citable assessment for their reporting workflow, and insurers and cat modelers, who screen liquefaction susceptibility across portfolio locations via API.

What data does the engine draw on?

8,634 in-situ test records from the NGL (Next Generation Liquefaction) database, 354 sites across 31 earthquakes.