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La Conchita landslide, photo taken 14 January 2005 La Conchita landslide, 1995. The town of La Conchita, California, experienced major landslides in 1995 and 2005. The latter landslide killed 10 people, and destroyed or damaged dozens of houses. The 2005 landslide occurred on part of a previous landslide that occurred in 1995.
La Conchita from the air, looking northeast; the landslides into the town are visible on the extreme right "La Conchita", Spanish for little conch shell, was first used as the name of a spur on the Southern Pacific railroad line in the 1880s and it was a name generally used to describe a broader area than the present day village.
January 3–5, 1982 landslides in San Francisco Bay Area. Landslides killed 25 people and caused at least $66 million in damage. [7] [8] Ten people were killed at Love Creek, near Ben Lomond. [9] 1996 Yosemite Valley landslide; La Conchita landslides in La Conchita, on January 10, 2005, killed 10 people and destroyed 18 homes. [10]
Rancho Palos Verdes, a coastal community in the Los Angeles area, could be described as a geological ticking time bomb. The affluent city sits atop steep cliffs overlooking the Pacific Ocean that ...
The deep landslides beneath the multimillion-dollar homes in Rancho Palos Verdes moved at an almost glacial pace, until they didn’t. This affluent coastal city in Southern California, around 30 ...
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La Conchita, California, United States 2005 La Conchita landslide: 200,000 m 3: 10 Remobilization of colluvium from 1995 slide into a debris flow. [124] 17 Feb 2006 Southern Leyte, Philippines: 2006 Southern Leyte mudslide: 15 MCM 1,126 Rock-debris avalanche triggered by ten-day period of heavy rain [134] 3 Jun 2007
In a coastal Southern California city where multimillion-dollar estates teeter above the Pacific Ocean, power remained intentionally severed Tuesday to about 245 homes as worsening landslides have ...