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The State of California Department of Conservation produces regulatory maps showing locations where the hazard from earthquake-triggered landslides must be evaluated prior to specific types of land-use development in accordance with provisions of Public Resources Code, Section 2690 et seq. (Seismic Hazards Mapping Act).
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.
The landslide area spanned approximately 90 acres [38] and damaged and destroyed several homes. [3] Impacted homeowners received roughly $16 million in compensatory setttlements. [38] In 1987, there was a documented landslide in the Flying Triangle area above Portuguese Bend. [29]
The devastation caused by the landslide started last winter. But residents say the origins of the crisis started in 1956, when city officials greenlighted the construction of 200 homes and seven ...
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 ...
The difference between these two concepts is subtle but important. The landslide causes are the reasons that a landslide occurred in that location and at that time and may be considered to be factors that made the slope vulnerable to failure, that predispose the slope to becoming unstable. The trigger is the single event that finally initiated ...
The resulting landslides have ripped apart seaside mansions, buckled roads and forced utility provider Southern California Edison to cut electricity to nearly 250 homes to avoid the possibility of ...
The landslide competes with the 1997 Merced River flood and the 2013 Rim wildfire for the designation of the worst natural disaster in Yosemite to date. The earthquake caused by the rock slide was followed almost immediately by a sonic boom. Soon afterward a granite dust mushroom cloud formed over Happy Isles.