BasedonBiot'sconsolidationtheory,atwo-dimensionalmodelforcomputationoftheseabedresponsetowavesispresentedwiththefiniteelementmethod.Numericalresultsfordifferentwaveconditionsareobtained,andtheeffectsofwavenon-linearityonthewave-inducedseabedresponseareexamined.Moreover,thewave-inducedmomentaryliquefactioninuniformandinhomogeneousseabedsisinvestigated.Itisshownthatthewavenon-linearityaffectsthedistributionofthewave-inducedporepressureandeffectivestresses,whiletheinfluenceofwavenon-linearityontheseabedliquefactionpotentialisnotsosignificant.