Residents of Rancho Palos Verdes brace for an incoming storm, fearing heavy rainfall could accelerate ongoing land movement despite stabilization efforts.
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.
The land under the Palos Verdes Peninsula has been sliding for decades. New data from NASA shows just how bad the problem is.
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 ...
The residential area shifted toward the Pacific Ocean as much as 4 inches — per week — during a four-week period last fall.