2 days ago · The Palos Verdes Peninsula is known for its frequent landslides. A coastal community in Southern California is shifting downslope -- and closer to the Pacific Ocean -- at a rapid rate, according ...

2 days ago · Learn about the surge of landslide activity in California's Palos Verdes Peninsula as measured by NASA, showing the effects of climate change and intensifying precipitation.

1 day ago · The Palos Verdes Peninsula in Los Angeles County continues to inch toward the ocean posing danger to life and infrastructure, a NASA report found.

Jan 31, 2025 · Analysis of data from NASA radar aboard an airplane shows that the decades-old active landslide area on the Palos Verdes Peninsula has expanded.

Sep 9, 2024 · Residents living on the largest area of natural vegetation on the Palos Verdes Peninsula, 30 miles south of downtown Los Angeles, used to call the coastal ground movement slowly shifting beneath...

The Palos Verdes Peninsula, a coastal region of the Los Angeles metropolitan area, has a long history of landslides and land movements. [1][2][3][4][5][6][7] The Palos Verdes Peninsula is home to the cities of Palos Verdes Estates, [8] Rancho Palos Verdes, [9] Rolling Hills [10] and Rolling Hills Estates, [11] and the unincorporated communities ...

Sep 22, 2024 · Officials still know little about the extent of the Portuguese Bend land movement on the Palos Verdes Peninsula, leaving residents in a torturous limbo.

Jul 11, 2023 · A house in Rolling Hills Estates is severely damaged after a landslide on the Palos Verdes Peninsula in Los Angeles County early Sunday, July 9, 2023. Multiple homes were evacuated in the Los Angeles-area city after a major ground shift put them at risk of collapse, officials said Sunday.

Jul 10, 2023 · A landslide is tearing apart luxury homes on Southern California’s Palos Verdes Peninsula. The earth movement is leaving a twisted jumble of collapsed roofs, shattered walls, tilted chimneys and decks dangling over an adjacent canyon.

Feb 18, 2024 · More and faster land movement has wreaked havoc across Portuguese Bend on the Palos Verdes Peninsula, where a slow-moving landslide has lurked for decades.