PROBABILISTIC · SITE-SPECIFIC · AI-DRIVEN

Soil liquefaction is the most undermodeled risk
in global infrastructure

Soil liquefaction alone caused $50B+ in losses in a single earthquake sequence. Until now, there was no scalable method to predict it site by site.

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NGL Similarity Engine
95% match
Christchurch, NZ
CPT qc 4.2 MPa · FC 18% · Mw 6.2
Liquefied
91% match
Tohoku, Japan
CPT qc 3.8 MPa · FC 22% · Mw 9.0
Liquefied
87% match
Chi-Chi, Taiwan
CPT qc 5.1 MPa · FC 9% · Mw 7.6
No Liquefaction
83% match
Niigata, Japan
CPT qc 2.9 MPa · FC 31% · Mw 6.8
Liquefied
AI Assessment: High liquefaction probability. Site conditions closely match 3 of 4 historical liquefaction events.

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Mercatus
Platform

NGL Similarity Engine

Retrieve the most geotechnically similar case histories from the NGL database, with AI-generated engineering assessment.

8,634
Verified earthquake case
histories across 47 events
B&I 2014
Methodology grounded in
Boulanger & Idriss — the
field standard
2 cm
Vertical displacement threshold
validated against building
damage states

Case history search

Input your site parameters and retrieve the closest matching case histories from 8,634 real-world CPT and SPT records across 50+ earthquake events.

Side-by-side comparison

Compare multiple case histories on a single screen. Identify analogous site conditions to inform liquefaction probability for new assessments.

API access

Integrate NGL data into your GIS or risk modeling workflows via REST API. Submit a JSON payload of site parameters and receive ranked matches with similarity scores and AI-generated assessment in a single response.

REST API — Query Endpoint
POST /v1/query
Authorization: Bearer <api-key>
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "qc": 4.2,   // Cone tip resistance (MPa)
  "Ic": 1.8,   // Soil behaviour type index
  "FC": 18,    // Fines content (%)
  "depth": 6.5, // Sample depth (m)
  "PGA": 0.32, // Peak ground acceleration (g)
  "Mw": 6.2    // Moment magnitude
}
Methodology

How GeoLiquefy works

Trained on real earthquake data

Our models are built on case histories from Tohoku, Christchurch, Chi-Chi, and Niigata. Not synthetic data. Every prediction traces back to physical ground truth.

Fits your existing process

Export results to your reporting workflow, query via API, or use the web interface for exploratory analysis. No proprietary lock-in.

Engineering-readable explanations

Every prediction includes step-by-step reasoning: CSR, CRR, factor of safety. Review and sign off on the methodology, not just the number.

Why Now?

Major earthquake frequency is rising as urban infrastructure density grows. The exposure window is narrowing.

62
M6.5+ events
1980s
89
M6.5+ events
2000s
104
M6.5+ events
2020s

Seismic losses from liquefaction exceeded $50B in the 2010-2011 Canterbury earthquake sequence alone. Infrastructure is being built at planetary scale without adequate tools for ground failure prediction. GeoLiquefy changes that.

People

Our Team

Achyut Tiwari
Achyut Tiwari
Founder & CEO

Ex-Enterprise Data Scientist, Emergent Ventures Fellow, and inventor with a proven record of AI deployment, scientific authorship, and patented geotechnical tools. Focused on transforming how ground failure is predicted and prevented.

Advisory Board

Ashok Kumar Gupta

Ashok Kumar Gupta

Chief Advisor — Geotechnics

Professor of Civil Engineering and Dean of Academics, Jaypee University of Information Technology. His work spans soil dynamics, ground improvement, and geotechnical earthquake engineering.

Robb Moss

Robb Moss

Research Collaborator and Advisor — Geohazards

Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cal Poly. Works on probabilistic seismic hazard analysis, earthquake engineering, and soil liquefaction. His experience from global earthquake reconnaissance helps keep our scientific approach precise.

Saurabh Rawat

Saurabh Rawat

Advisor — Geomechanics

Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering, NIT Delhi. Research covers geotechnical and geoenvironmental engineering: landslide mitigation, helical soil nailing, reinforced earth systems, and ground-improvement methods.

Enterprise

Working on a large-scale geohazard risk assessment?

We offer structured pilots for geotechnical consulting firms, reinsurance analytics teams, and government infrastructure agencies. Pilots include platform access, API credentials, and direct researcher support.

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