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Rancho Palos Verdes Landslide Accelerates as Council Considers Extending Local Emergency

City engineers link the renewed movement to concentrated winter rains.

Overview

  • City monitoring shows ground in parts of Portuguese Bend moving roughly 2 inches per week, up from about 1.5 inches in recent months.
  • February measurements reported Abalone Cove averaging about 2.24 inches per week and Portuguese Bend about 1.5 inches per week.
  • A newly released heat map displays monthly expansion of the active area since September 2025 with a notable jump between December and February.
  • The City Council is set to weigh 60-day extensions of a local emergency declaration and a Palos Verdes Drive South motorcycle prohibition.
  • About 400 homes have been affected, more than 20 are red-tagged, and many residents have lacked gas and electricity for over a year, with Southern California Edison indicating service could be reconsidered if movement slows to historic rates.