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In Summer 2024, City officials informed residents that they have identified additional land movements and landslides for Rancho Palos Verdes. [21] [31] The new, deeper slide appears to be moving faster and deeper, shifting the city's strategy from individual landslide event response to a broader strategy to address all landslide hazards and issues.
As Palos Verdes Peninsula land movement slows, 28 homes to get power back — with 250 to go. Grace Toohey, Karen Garcia. October 25, 2024 at 6:00 AM.
The land under Rancho Palos Verdes had been slowly giving way for many years. Now, the movement is accelerating due to heavy rainfall, causing landslides. Affluent coastal community near L.A. is a ...
Between 2007 and 2018, the rate of movement in the area of the peninsula known as the landslide complex remained consistent, but starting in 2018 that ground movement increased by 3 to 5 times ...
The rapidly accelerating complex of landslides in Rancho Palos Verdes has created an unforeseen outcome: a new coastline as the seafloor is pushed upward. ... Land movement has plagued this region ...
Rancho Palos Verdes officials are hoping to slow the land movement with the help of five new de-watering wells they're in the process of installing at the deepest level yet.
The Palos Verdes Hills are part of an uplifted block, with a northwest trend, bounded on the northeast by the Palos Verdes fault zone. Most of the movement along this fault is dip-slip, resulting in an uplift of about 1 km of the Palos Verdes Hills relative to the Los Angeles basin.
New drilling in Rancho Palos Verdes has revealed that devastating land movement has been caused, at least partially, by a deeper slip plane — meaning a larger area could be affected.