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The Portuguese Bend area has a history of landslides. [ 19 ] [ 20 ] Beginning in September 1956 and continuing until early 1957, [ 21 ] the area experienced a landslide concurrent with the construction of a road (the Crenshaw Boulevard extension, south of Crest Road) along the top of an ancient landslide complex.
Officials still know little about the extent of the Portuguese Bend land movement on the Palos Verdes Peninsula, leaving residents in a torturous limbo. Palos Verdes landslide keeps getting worse ...
The Portuguese Bend Landslide is a highly active landslide area that covers approximately 240 acres. [33] [34] Since Spring 2023, there has been noticeable land movement and collateral damage in the Portuguese Bend Beach Club, Portuguese Bend Community Association, and Seaview neighborhoods.
"The Portuguese Beach Club area continues to experience major deformation along Seawall Road and bulging/uplift on the order of 4 to 5 feet across the beach ... [Portuguese Bend landslide]."
For months, the movement had been accelerating and expanding, damaging homes, cracking roadways and upending life across the Portuguese Bend area. The movement has also repeatedly required ...
The Portuguese Bend landslide was triggered in the summer of 1956 — nearly two decades before Rancho Palos Verdes became a city — when a Los Angeles County road crew was constructing an ...
PHOTO: Drone view of houses as an evacuation warning is issued and electricity is turned off after recent landslides have effected the Portuguese Bend neighborhood of Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif ...
Boring tests that uncovered the deeper geologic formation have so far been completed along only one edge of the Portuguese Bend landslide, which is one of four smaller slides in the area — along ...