Thoughts of the long-anticipated Tokai Earthquake hitting Aichi Prefecture have worried a company employee, 40, who is having a two-story wooden house built there. Ground liquefaction in a major earthquake can cause a house to tilt--or worse.
To avoid such an outcome, he asked experts to check the condition of the ground at the site before construction of his new house began. The result showed that a big earthquake might indeed cause liquefaction of land there.
