If you experienced the earth shaking and quivering underneath you on a regular basis, “up to 10 inches a week,” it might be time to pack your bags and find another area to call your home. This is exactly what’s happening right now in Rancho Palos Verdes and is likely the most extreme example of geophysical instability literally rocking California at this time. Rancho Palo Verdes (RPV) is located 30 miles from the downtown area of Los Angeles. All of this land movement is causing all sorts of havoc in the community, including burst gaslines, sinking homes, and large cracks in the roads.
Things are getting so wild in RPV that if you were to take a stroll through the community, you would be shocked to see a rather alien looking landscape, like something out of Star Trek. Now, the ground has always been jiggling and wiggling in the area, but now the rate of that movement has accelerated.
On Monday of this week, authorities in the area have stated that an additional 105 homes would end up having their power cut because emergency repairs are required.
More than 100 additional homes in Rancho Palos Verdes will have their power cut because of worsening landslides in the area, city officials said Monday.
This time, 105 of the 270 homes in the Seaview neighborhood will see the lights turned off as of 7 p.m. Monday, officials said. The shifting earth puts electrical equipment at risk and could spark a wildfire among other dangers if power lines are electrified, officials said.
The day prior to this, authorities shut off the power to 140 other homes.
This is the second power shut-off in as many days in the area, a peninsula about 30 miles south of downtown Los Angeles famous for its sea breezes, gorgeous views, and expensive homes. On Sunday, officials shut off power to 140 homes in the Portuguese Bend area of Rancho Palos Verdes, about a mile up the coast. In that case, officials also issued an evacuation warning, meaning residents had to prepare to leave should they be ordered to do so.
It’s tragic to see what many people believe to be the most beautiful part of the state of California getting completely wrecked by this land movement, which is also making it nearly impossible for folks to live there. A member of RPV’s city council, David Bradley, stated the ground is now moving “up to 10 inches a week”
“The movement has accelerated dramatically over the last 12 months, where some areas are moving up to 10 inches a week,” said city council member David Bradley. “You can almost see the ground move.”
California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a diehard liberal, finally declared a state of emergency due to the geophysical instability of the area.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom proclaimed a state of emergency on Tuesday for the city of Rancho Palos Verdes amid the ongoing land movement threatening hundreds of homes.
The proclamation, issued early Tuesday afternoon, comes as the city works frantically to mitigate the damage from the slow-motion natural disaster, which has displaced many residents and caused officials to shut off electricity indefinitely to hundreds of homes in the community.
This is a political action that should have been taken a long, long time ago. Here you have an entire community that is currently in danger of falling into the ocean.
A report from CBS News, there is a huge difference when you look at pictures of the shoreline that were taken “pre-2024” those that were captured six months later.
A few month’s difference is astonishing when viewing side-by-side photos of the shoreline pre-2024 and six months later, with a few hundred feet of new rocky shore that formed as the land continues to move, piling up under the water’s edge.
“What’s happening is, the ground is rising up and coming up, right through the ocean and lifting it up out of the ocean,” Phipps said.
According to a piece published at End Of The American Dream, “In 2024, there has been a tremendous amount of seismic activity all over the ‘Ring of Fire’ which runs roughly along the perimeter of the Pacific Ocean. Of course the entire California coastline sits directly along the ‘Ring of Fire.'”
Over the course of a seven day period, a total of over 800 earthquakes took place in both California and Nevada. Fortunately, these have mostly been smaller in scope, but scientists are suggesting that the “Big One” is eventually coming.
The infamous but elusive possibility of a devastatingly large earthquake known as “The Big One” always comes to mind when a significant quake strikes in California.
But there’s actually several devastating quakes that will eventually hit the state.
The USGS estimates that within the next three decades, there’s about a 46% chance an earthquake of magnitude 7 will hit in the Los Angeles area, and a 51% chance it will happen in the Bay Area. The chances of a 7.5 magnitude quake are 31% in the Los Angeles area and 20% in the San Francisco area in the next 30 years.
I don’t think I would be able to continue living in California. If the communistic policies don’t drive you out, the near constant threat of being obliterated in a massive earthquake will.
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