Rolling Hills Estates residents and authorities in the area noted the land shift around 4 p.m. on Saturday. At least 3 of the houses are expected to fall into a canyon.
, adjacent to Torrance, though that landslide caused only minimal property damage and no injuries.
Landslides have always been a problem there. But in 1956, the county extended Crenshaw Boulevard to the coast, according to an RPV press release earlier this year. That exacerbated the issue. Rancho Palos Verdes was the last of the four Peninsula cities to incorporate, having done so in 1973. And over the years, some houses on RPV have moved 400 to 500 feet from their original property lines.
Likewise, a preliminary geotechnical analysis of the soil conditions at the December landslide site in Palos Verdes Estates indicated another portion of that slope was actively moving and could fall at any time,The extent of this weekend’s Rolling Hills Estates land movement, meanwhile, likely won’t be entirely known until geologists survey the area.
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