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Landslides are common in Southern California, the San Francisco Bay Area and other parts of Northern California, and the Sierra Nevada. Although they most often are reported when they impact residential developments, landslides also damage roads, railroads, pipelines, electrical lines, and other infrastructure throughout the state, and occur in ...
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 ...
A landslide near Cusco, Peru, in 2018 A NASA model has been developed to look at how potential landslide activity is changing around the world. Animation of a landslide in San Mateo County, California Landslips Noire River (Rivière Noire), Saint-Alban landslide 1894, Quebec, Canada [1] [2]
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 ...
In his latest report, he noted that the landslide continues to affect new areas, moving in some spots as much as 13 inches a week. For decades, most areas saw movement closer to a few inches a ...
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]
Commonly called mudslides, these dangerous torrents are usually referred to by geologists and first responders as debris flows, which the U.S. Geological Survey describes as fast-moving landslides ...
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.