[Rockhounds] Massive Rancho Palos Verdes Landslide Causes Major Damage in California

[Paul]

An informative, but sad, video about this landslide.

Massive Rancho Palos Verdes Landslide in California
Casey Jones Professional Engineers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31YJHFY8HDY

Recent news:

Gigantic’ landslides hit California coastal town: 
‘Watching their homes crumble’
Dani Anganiano and Sam Levin, The Guardian, Sept. 3, 2024
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/sep/03/california-power-outages-landslide

The local problem with landslides was well know for decades.

Merriam, R., 1960. Portuguese Bend landslide, Palos 
Verdes Hills, California. The Journal of Geology, 68(2), pp.140-153.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/30057395.pdf

Bouali, E.H., Oommen, T. and Escobar-Wolf, R., 2018. 
Mapping of slow landslides on the Palos Verdes Peninsula 
using the California landslide inventory and persistent 
scatterer interferometry. Landslides, 15, pp.439-452.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10346-017-0882-z

"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”
Rita Mae Brown in  her 1983 book, "Sudden Death",

Yours,

Paul H.