City officials in the Southern California coastal enclave of Rancho Palos Verdes are trying to find what caused the land to shift under more homes on Sept. 27 about four miles from an existing landslide complex.
The land slipped about 50 to 60 feet toward the coastline under four multimillion-dollar cliffside homes on Marguerite Drive near Palos Verdes Drive West, causing damage to backyards in a neighborhood northwest of the city’s existing Portuguese Bend landslide area.
“Approximately 300-400 linear feet of the slope sloughed off,” according to a city statement.
No homes were tagged, and no structural damage was found, but “Significant soil movement has resulted in damage to several backyards,” the statement said. “No evacuations are in place.”…