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.

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 growing number of homes in Southern California are now at risk of sliding into the ocean, according to a new study by NASA ...

The Brief New data from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory showed the Palos Verdes Peninsula sinking toward the ocean as fast as 4 inches a week. The report said that not only did the landslide ...

Located between Rancho Palos Verdes and Rolling Hills, the section includes the 2-mile-square Greater Portuguese Bend landslide area where homeowners have been offered monetary compensation.

Sallie Reeves inspects damage to her house that is sliding in the Portuguese Bend area of Rancho Palos Verdes. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times ...

By 1956, the ground in the Portuguese Bend neighborhood of Rancho Palos Verdes was sliding up to several centimeters per day to the west. More than 150 homes were destroyed or severely damaged ...

Residents in the Portuguese Bend, Seaview and Beach Club neighborhoods have been living without electric or natural gas service for weeks because the increased land sliding in those areas has made ...

Sallie Reeves inspects damage to her house, which is sliding in the Portuguese Bend area of Rancho Palos Verdes. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times ...

It is home to the 680-acre Greater Portuguese Bend Landslide Complex, which has suffered after the two-year rainy season reactivated a deep-seated slide plane — with land moving at a clip of up ...

It is home to the 680-acre Greater Portuguese Bend Landslide Complex, which has suffered after the two-year rainy season reactivated a deep-seated slide plane — with land moving at a clip of up ...