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Beyond the closed roads, damaged homes and transformed landscapes caused by the devastating and ongoing land movement, they have found themselves struggling to safely store food and secure stable ...
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 ...
California Governor Gavin Newsom has declared a state of emergency in a Los Angeles suburb after officials announced they’d be cutting power to the area due to the threat of ongoing landslides ...
A landslide in which the sliding surface is located within the soil mantle or weathered bedrock (typically to a depth from few decimeters to some meters) is called a shallow landslide. Debris slides and debris flows are usually shallow. Shallow landslides can often happen in areas that have slopes with high permeable soils on top of low ...
Landslides are of course a global phenomenon, and scientists are identifying climate change-fueled landslide risks across the world. Cyclone Gabriel in New Zealand triggered more than 140,000 ...
In the last few weeks, the city installed six deep wells near the coastline to pump out groundwater — the impetus for landslide movement — which, combined have been pumping out 550 gallons per ...
A dozen homes torn apart by earth movement on Southern California's Palos Verdes Peninsula during the weekend were likely to fall into an adjacent canyon, an official said. The homes in the Los ...
Caltrans reported multiple slides across the Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu and it does not have a timeline for when they will be cleared.