Continued land movement in Rancho Palos Verdes has created a stunning new stretch of shoreline, which geologists say was not expected.
The devastation left behind from a series of landslides on the Palos Verdes Peninsula is still very apparent on Tuesday, with large cracks in the roads and tarps covering various hillsides behind red-tagged homes. Even still, months after the movement began, earth continues to shift, creating an unexpected and stunning new stretch of shoreline near Rancho Palos Verdes. 'Somebody said, 'Oh, you know there's a new beach.
He says that the phenomenon is evidence that the landslides are much deeper than they initially thought, and moving at deeper levels than they had previously modeled. He says that they could be as deep as 300 feet near the cost of Palos Verdes Drive South. Phipps says that the significance of this is that they need to what exactly what they're dealing with as they plan where and how they will drill to get water out of the mass of landslide debris to halt it's devastating impact.
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