Which risk increases when stacked defensive walls have excessive soil pore pressure following intense rain?

💡 Explanation

When intense rain saturates the soil behind stone walls, the pore pressure increases, decreasing effective strength and thus outward force increases, leading to buckling. Therefore wall collapse increases more than other options which have different mechanisms.

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