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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.
2 Landslide maps in California and laws and regulations. ... La Conchita landslides in La Conchita, on January 10, 2005, killed 10 people and destroyed 18 homes.
Jesus Barron answered his wife's panicked phone call warning him that a mudslide was smashing into their bedroom in the hills of eastern Los Angeles County. Wendy Barron escaped their Hacienda ...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -A final burst of heavy rain from a deadly atmospheric river storm doused California's Central Coast on Wednesday as it headed for Los Angeles, bringing a renewed threat of ...
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
Crews worked Tuesday to evacuate 17 Studio City residents who were sheltering in place following a major mudslide. City workers armed with shovels and picks attempted to clear debris and mud that ...
Parts of Burbank and Sun Valley, previously affected by the La Tuna Fire in 2017, received four inches (100 mm) of rain and were evacuated ahead of potential mudslides. A debris flow into a residential area of Sun Valley damaged 40 to 45 homes and carried a vehicle that struck a natural gas pipeline , which began to leak. [ 37 ]