The wealthy California coastal community of Rancho Palos Verdes watched more of its cherished land slip toward the ocean over the weekend. Aerial images captured pieces of several ocean-facing backyards peeling away from upscale homes, but officials say there was no structural harm or injuries reported this time, per the Guardian. The Los Angeles County Fire Department said 300 to 400 linear feet of hillside fell 50 to 60 feet toward the coast, per USA Today. What triggered the latest movement remains a question. City officials clarified that this event isn't tied to the infamous Portuguese Bend Landslide Complex—an area a few miles away that's been inching downhill since 1956, when a road project reactivated an ancient slide and wiped out 140 houses.
Since then, the ground under Rancho Palos Verdes has been anything but stable: homeowners have watched properties break apart, dealt with recurring power outages, and endured utilities being cut off without warning. After a stretch of record-setting rain in recent years, the typically sluggish landslides gained momentum. Last year, a single storm shifted the ground by as much as a foot in just one week, forcing hundreds of families from their homes. While this weekend's bluff collapse didn't damage residences, it's the latest signal that the slow-motion danger is far from resolved, leaving some on a geological knife-edge. It comes weeks after the community council permanently banned new residential construction in Portuguese Bend, per SFGate.
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