Laurie Perez reports from Rancho Palos Verdes, where the continued land movement from a powerful landslide has created a stunning new stretch of shoreline, that could keep changing in coming months.
Greedy self-serving narcissists... If they can even find insurance companies to cover that area, the premiums would be astronomical. An abject waste of money. Go buy another mansion somewhere else & give that money to charities.
Because real estate developers and city council members said it was cool to do so. Where I live, we had a drag strip/race park that was going thru a two year major upgrade. During those two relatively quiet years, city council approved the land right next to the park for sale and a developer and contractor rushed in and built over 30 homes right up against the edge of the race parks property. When the park reopened, the new residence freaked out over the noise and the _CITY COUNCIL_ tried to sue the park owners into bankruptcy. They obviously wanted to steal the parks land for development. The park owners were grandfathered in on having no property taxes and the property has been owned by the same family for generations, before there was property taxes in that area. Luckily, the courts sided with the park owners, and many of the residents are now suing the city council members.
Rich people are used to getting their way. These people will have a super hard time when society collapses soon and they have no money or survival skills.
Thanks to this decades long study conducted by wealthy Rancho Palo Verdes residents and builders, we now have solid evidence that building your house on a landslide is a bad idea. Thank you RVP for your contribution to the sciences of building technology and geology.
In the first place there were no slides because it was inactive. It became reactivated when they tried to extend Crenshaw blvd. well after the time people began living there. I don't know why this is generating so much anti-human chatter. Are you folks jealous of those with money? If they earned the money they should spend it. I hope for them, and those who bought in early and cheap, that they and their homes are safe.
@@gingerclark4574 It's not jealousy it is people tired of their tax money being spent on fruitless crap. Are you going to sit here and pretend only the people living in that area will pay to have it fixed???????????????????????????????????????????????????// Sure dude it is just jealousy, that is all, nothing more. Keep telling yourself lies.
The landslide is part of a larger complex of ancient landslides on the south side of the Palos Verdes Peninsula. THOSE STRUCTURES SHOULD HAVE NEVER BEEN BUILT.
I imagine we hear about this spot so much due to all the houses built so close to the edge up on a hill that is being eroded. There are two other large land protrusions in California, but of the two areas one houses an air force base, and the other a national park, which is why we probably hear about any changes to land mass much less in those areas.
It's not California so much, Rancho Palos Verdes is a protrusion of land, though not nearly the peninsula that Cape Cod is, so the sea hits it from multiple angles and it drops off into a deeper ocean shelf more closely than other nearby land.
The rate of change in Palos Verdes is significant. I use Tonerde my motorcycle almost everyday up there and the road would shift daily and new cracks appeared every week. Constant patching etc. Amazing to witness.
When the earth under you starts moving you dont start complaining to news outlets hoping someone has a solution. The problem is we dont know whats actually happening underground and how big it can be. You start packing up and moving out.
There is a lot of wealth accumulated from abuse of power concentrated all along the west coast…specifically in the north west corner. God has a mighty and swift hand in powerful retribution…every thing cycles ~ Turn Turn Turn ~ There is Season ✨🪶⚖️✨
From 1989 study published in the journal Science Direct: The Portuguese Bend landslide represents a reactivation of movement of the eastern part of a complex of prehistoric landslides occupying an area of approximately two square miles. This latest episode of movement began in 1956, presumably in response to placement of fill during a road construction project. The active slide subsequently was enlarged by sequential failure of adjoining blocks of ground, and by September 1969 about 54,500,000 metric tons of debris was slowly moving downslope in an area of approximately 104 ha. Movement has been continuous since recent failure began in 1956, although the velocity of the active slide decreased markedly after that year. Between 1962 and 1972 the velocity fluctuated only slightly about an average value of about 1 cm per day. Movement is occurring along a distinct basal failure surface. The eastern part of the slide is underlain by bedrock and is bordered by bedrock with a general structure that limits further deep-seated propagation of failure to the east and northeast. In contrast, the western part of the slide is underlain and bordered by extensive ancient landslide deposits that are marginally stable. Further encroachment of the active slide westward and northwestward into these materials was viewed as a distinct possibility at the time the dissertation was prepared and has occurred since then. Continued movement of the Portuguese Bend landslide since 1956 has been due to four main factors. A rise in the water table during the period 1957-1968 has been documented in the northwestern part of the moving mass and is attributable mainly to infiltration of surface runoff entering numerous open fissures that cut the surface of the slide. The toe of the active slide daylights along the shoreline and is subjected to storm-wave erosion, so that any natural build-up of resisting forces is prevented in this area. The redistribution of mass as the slide has moved along an undulatory failure surface has been responsible for local fluctuations in the driving and resisting forces. Finally, smoothing of irregularities in the failure surface by the moving slide mass must have decreased some of the forces resisting movement.
And everyone is surprised that this is happening today? "The land is sliding! The land is sliding! Woe is me! What shall I do?!" Developers and builders failed to do their homework.
Everyone should be worried even if they don't live in the landslide area. Insurance rates will go up for everyone even if they don't have a rider for land movement or they don't live in a known land movement area. Ask the folks in FL about their hurricane coverage rates..
No Wonder i'm seeing a Flood of Homes for Sale in Palos Verdes i've always heard from People that California will one day fall into the Ocean, maybe they meant Palos Verdes
OK, those properties are gone and there’s nothing you could do the stop that slide. I knew this was going to happen along time ago from studying geology, but it’s happening quicker than I thought it was
Hello friends...I'm from the deep South. I enjoy learning interesting Earth science stuff. This is being called a "land slide" but it seems to me it is more like a "land rise". Can anyone explain or tell me what term I might google or youtube video I might watch that would explain what is happening and why? Thanks☆♡
Lawn irrigation adds the equivalent of 60 inches of rainfall per year to the surface runoff that is largely responsible for the slide. City leaders calling for State Emergency to somehow halt a millenniums-long landslide, caused by surface water runoff, in a region with a Mediterranean climate and the greenest lawns in the state, by drilling wells in an attempt to remove said water, without ordering residents to halt irrigation of lawns, makes the $80 billion slow-speed rail line between farming communities make perfect sense.
California crumbles into the sea That'll be the day I go back to Annandale Tried to warn you about Diddy and Daddy P But I can't seem to get to you thru the U.S. mail. Steely Dan😂
When you ignore geology and history, you are doomed to make the same mistakes over and over again. We all know the land near the sea in CA is unstable, yet we keep building on it. Then when mother nature reclaims her power, everyone acts surprised. It's not a surprise. Quit building where you should not and then telling your buyers everything is safe. It's not. Buyers: do your own research from now on.
Developer, "Have I got a prime location for homes! Sure its on an active landslide but we will have our money and be out of there long before anyone notices! Then we can build that development in the flood basin we always wanted!" Predatory capitalism at work. At least its the rich preying on the rich this time.
