When hills are healthy, vegetation can anchor the soil in place. But when that is burned off, hillsides become vulnerable to erosion, and slopes can come crashing down.
Residents of Rancho Palos Verdes brace for an incoming storm, fearing heavy rainfall could accelerate ongoing land movement despite stabilization efforts.
Moisture sweeping down the coast will drench much of California, including areas that burned severely just a month ago.
Imaging taking from a radar service show that a slow moving landslide was pushing Rancho Palos Verdes, California 4-inches ...
Parts of the Southern California coastal community of Rancho Palos Verdes were shifting 4 inches closer to the ocean each week in mid-to-late 2024, NASA found.
Rancho Palos Verdes is moving toward the ocean about 80 times faster than it was in 2022, “more than enough to put human life and infrastructure at risk.” ...
An analysis by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has determined that during a four-week period in fall 2024, land in some ...
The land under the Palos Verdes Peninsula has been sliding for decades. New data from NASA shows just how bad the problem is.
The residential area shifted toward the Pacific Ocean as much as 4 inches — per week — during a four-week period last fall.
Data gathered from four weeks in the fall of 2024 showed the speed of the movement to be "more than enough to put human life ...
According to NASA, the Palos Verdes Peninsula is moving into the Pacific Ocean as it shifts west by four per week. The ...
A Southern California coastal area long prone to landslides continues to inch toward the ocean at a rising speed posing danger to human life and infrastructure, a new NASA report shows. The Palos ...