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Incessant rains over the past several days triggered a massive landslide resulting in road subsidence near Kisama village, ...
20, 2018, a massive landslide in barangays Tinaan and Naalad in Naga City, Cebu claimed the ... which is described as a complex mass movement. A karst subsidence, it explained, is the gradual ...
Landslides are typically large-scale movements of rock, debris or dirt down a slope. They originate from a variety of motions, including the falling, sliding and flowing of loose and loosened ...
Rancho Palos Verdes officials warned residents Tuesday night that there’s a much larger, deeper landslide underneath the shallower movement they’ve been monitoring, raising the stakes for ...
After weeks of residents begging for outside help with landslide damage in the Palos Verdes Peninsula, some assistance is finally on the way. The Rancho Palos Verdes City Council on Tuesday ...
"They're finding that there is a second slip plane that's actually lower that's moving the entire landslide complex," said Mayor John Cruikshank. Phipps said the rate of the land movement overall ...
Geologists believe the deeper activity is the ancient Altamira landslide complex, for which movement has never before been recorded, Awwad said. “The shallower slide does have fast movement ...
said that while the landslide's movement has leveled off at 3.5 to 4.5 feet per month, a much deeper slide is moving much faster. Recent testing of underground conditions found a larger ...
Researchers from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory used airborne radar to measure activity of the slow-moving Palos Verdes Peninsula landslide, which showed movement by as much as 4 inches per week.
Rancho Palos Verdes is on track to spend as much as it takes to run the entire city for the year on continued efforts to shore up landslide movement that has rendered dozens of homes uninhabitable.
In a public statement, the city cited "the risk of utility equipment igniting a wildfire and other hazards caused by downed wires or damaged equipment impacted by landslide movement." At least 20 ...