A decades-long landslide has reshaped a 240-acre part of Palos Verdes Peninsula known as Portuguese Bend. Rancho Palos Verdes is mounting a plan to slow it.

Portuguese Bend has been sliding for over half a century. The area is part of the larger ancient landslide zone that comprises the southern section of the Palos Verdes Peninsula.

The Portuguese Bend landslide was triggered in the summer of 1956 — nearly two decades before Rancho Palos Verdes became a city — when a Los Angeles County road crew was constructing an ...

NASA imagery shows that land was sliding at a rate of 4 inches a week during a four-week period last year. Portuguese Bend is clearly on borrowed time. Support for LAist comes from ...

The sliding in the Portuguese Bend area does not seem to be related to several homes in nearby Rolling Hills Estates crumbling into a canyon a few months ago, but they share a cause: both slides are ...

Rancho Palos Verdes residents get $23 million to stem sliding landscape 02:29. ... The grant from FEMA will help fund a project to stabilize the Portuguese Bend landslide area.

Gas service to 135 homes in the Portuguese Bend area of Rancho Palos Verdes, situated on the coastal outskirts of Los Angeles, will end from 9 a.m. local time, the company said.

California neighborhood is slowly sliding toward the ocean 03:22. Sheri Hastings' property sits on a slow-moving disaster; a complex of landslides in the Portuguese Bend area of Rancho Palos ...

How we got here: According to research from the Cal State Dominguez Hills, the Portuguese Bend landslide has been moving for more than 250,000 years.But the more aggressive movement started after ...

A decades-long landslide has reshaped a 240-acre part of Palos Verdes Peninsula known as Portuguese Bend. Rancho Palos Verdes is mounting a plan to slow it.

Portuguese Bend is clearly on borrowed time. But people are adaptable, especially when there’s this much to lose. Residents ...