The 1700 Juan de Fuca Earthquake - Steven Earle - Malaspina University-College
Under shaking conditions loose wet sandy sediments can become "liquefied", and then injected into overlying material. The photograph above shows an example of this type of feature from a gravel pit at Cassidy, just southof Nanaimo. In this case, however, it is interpreted that the liquefaction was not due to shaking but to rapid deposition of the overlying clay.