Which risk increases when poorly designed buildings experience liquefaction?

💡 Explanation

Catastrophic structural shear failure increases because liquefaction reduces soil strength, and seismic energy causes buildings to move differentially, thus inducing shearing; therefore, shear failure is amplified rather than settlement because settling is a slower geological shift.

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