| This paper presents shear wave velocity profiles for 15 sites liquefied by the 1999 Kocaeli, Turkey earthquake. These profiles are used in order to evaluate each liquefaction site by the simplified shear wave velocity procedure. This procedure allowed for the identification of a potentially liquefiable region within the subsurface at each site. Once these soft regions had been identified, they were evaluated to separate granular soils expected to liquefy, from fine-grained soils expected not to liquefy.; Granular soil layers were located within the liquefiable region at 11 of the liquefaction test sites. It is assumed that these layers were the ones responsible for the observed liquefaction. The depth and thickness of each of these layers have been identified. However, at four of the liquefaction sites, only soils predicted as not susceptible to liquefaction were encountered. |
