And we can connect through webs of interest. Reaping the rewards of being a cognitively diverse social species is so important. Not just to survival but to the quality of our day-to-day lives. It makes me cry, I'm such a nerd 😂
@@PalosVerdesHousesin your personal experience, do you think the whole Peninsula will go bye bye? Since the movement is definitely moving weekly and very noticeable.
@@DaveR-d9n no. Most of Palos Verdes is on bedrock called PV Stone. The PB area has a layer of bentonite which is causing the slide. It is an isolated area of slippery gray clay like material.
@@PalosVerdesHouses True but what happens when the massive ocean finds a pathway underneath the land? it will then start to move much faster. If it were me, I'd count my loses and move especially those much closer to the coastal line.
Amazing. That beach you're walking on at 4:30, for example, was not there last year. I can understand your fascination with it. Such things led me to geophysics. Thank you so much for this. You cannot get information like this from the regular sources. Videos like this are what RUclips was made for in my opinion.
@@PalosVerdesHouses I watched a video here of a couple on the road that "used to be 55mph" went up then back down that short but very steep hill. When they went down it, just from the view outside the window, you felt that sharp drop. I chuckled. If they can adequately drain it perhaps it could be saved but… (They don't have that much money.) Edit: there has to be a video of a truck that didn't make it up that hill. 😉
I've been exploring this specific coast, doing amatuer paleobiology and geology. I'm hoping to get accepted into the new UCLA school and start a PHD on all this action. You basically made a video I was hoping to make. In fact, I was hanging out with my wife near one of the newly formed pools. I think you probably passed right by us, asked for permission as you walked right by our bare feet. There's a couple of huge petrified stumps that also got unearthed. I'll probably make the video now that I'm inspired. The history here goes way back. But essentially the easy answer here is that the cliffs and entire landmass itself is being uplifted by tectonic forces. We could pump out all the water and the land would still crumble as it rises. I'm not a local; I live in South Central but chose to teach in Palos Verdes this Summer so I can be closer to the Landslide. I see a lot of hate between locals and LA people, negative comments back and forth and people being happy that homes are being destroyed. Really all I care about is the petrified wood which contains a record of our climate from the past. All that precious information is just being exposed and washed away while everyone sleeps. Anyways thanks for the inspiration.
Love that you live in s.central but choose to teach in Palos Verdes. I'm a novice as far as paleobiology and geology goes but it fascinates. I'm grateful I have lived close to this area all my life . I have also unfortunately lived in s.central so I can appreciate the fresh air here by the ocean. No hate from me brother. Enjoy.
As a kid my grandfather took us on many hikes starting at Torrance Beach and finally ending in San Pedro, I would have never believed you that there as a beach in that location. Amazing video!
Way cool survey of conditions - thanks! Glad to learn about the fossils and bentonite. But still, so sorry others are losing their homes to this circumstance.
I grew up in San Pedro and used to go to Portuguese Bend back in the '70's. We used to swim across the channels, at the point. and swam into the caves timing the wave surge. There used to be an old broken down wooden pier. that we would climb up and jump off the end of ! There used to be some big purple Jellyfish that we would avoid! Thanks for the memories!!
Wow that’s a beautiful area with beautiful homes! I cannot believe anyone buying a home in that area would build on what could - eventually disappear into the sand!
I grew up in Rancho Palos Verdes. I’m 52 now and my parents still live there. But when they moved there in the early 1980s they knew about the sliding. Where they live is high up on the hill. They have a view of the ports of Long Beach and San Pedro, the breakwater and a little bit of the ocean outside of the breakwater. Most of the view is of the city lights. It’s the same city but miles away from the slide areas. It’s always been sliding and it was never a secret. People who bought homes in the slide area knew it. A lot of them would justify it and say it only slides 1-2” per year. But to buy a home and pay a lot of money for it in a known slide area is not the smartest move. My parents wanted to move there for the school district and they worked hard. But they never would have bought a house that was slowly sliding into the ocean. People pay $2-3 million for a tiny house in the slide area. If the area was not sliding into the ocean the houses would be more expensive. In the 1920s the area was surveyed and was unstable then. Then in the 1950s there were slides with one of them happening in 1956. I don’t understand how people think that it somehow would stop sliding. There is a lot more to the area and there are gorgeous homes that are not in the slide area.
I grew up on the peninsula back in the 60s and 70s. We used to surf PBC where a left hander would break off the sea wall. The beach was rock with only a smattering of sand. I remember seeing neighborhood garages that were jacked up and garage doors unable to close; one half of a house would be fine and the other half would be a wreck. It was crazy. There was the old pier out toward Abalone Cove and we filmed a chase scene on it for a class at Miraleste High School. The land was like nothing I had ever seen - jumbled and falling to pieces. It was an amazing place to grow up and your video reminded me of how magical it was for a kid.
I grew up hiking those cliffs, including the abandoned Vanderlip estate - hung out at Sacred Cove in the 80s. It’s always been moving, never any guarantees. In light of the current situation, sounds like it’s time to give up the ghost for many up there. Nature always wins.
Bentonite isn't just slippery when wet, it's super slippery; it expands many times over when wet and that really helps the ground move. The whole area from Abalone to San Pedro has bentonite. Sunken City started collapsing long before the events 1929 and it will keep moving long after the neighborhood above is gone to the sea.
that's terrible. that bentonite is great for making greensand, but it looks so ugly on that beach. what a cursed land. Although, i must say, its great for fossils and geologist studies. I'll stick to the beauty of the desert.
Thanks for sharing this visit to the beach that is changing so rapidly due to the landslide movements. It is excellent documentation of the changing landscape for geologists to view.
This is one of the best reports about what is going on. A Geologist in another report said the all of this movement is much deeper that anyone realizes. I have been watching some RUclips videos about Geology, something that was not available years ago when I was traveling the US a lot. This appears to be the result of the Pacific plate sliding under the North American plate. It is called subduction and I think this is what is happening at Palos Verdes. Just a thought from an old guy who stayed in a Holiday Inn Express last night. Chuckle, Chuckle. I am surprised more Geologists have not been out there to see what is happening. Maybe they have, and there is not any reporting on it.
The Palos Verdes Fault Zone (PVFZ) is not where the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate collide and subduct. Per my understanding, this area of California is where the subduction zone converted to a right lateral slip zone about 20 million years ago, and is now known as the San Andreas Fault, which is about 100 miles east, northeast from Palos Verdes. One article describes the PVFZ as a right-lateral reverse displacement.
@@GSMSfromFV Thank you. I did a little more research and found that. But what explains the lifting of the beach that Jason was pointing out. If the Farrallon and Pacific plates a sliding along to the north and are not subducting in Southern Calif., then there must be a deformity that is lifting the beach at that point. Is there something specific I could go research to help me understand this. Again, just a novice here trying to understand a little more about our planet. Thanks.
@@DaveBartholomew-uf6sm - I think the heavy weight of the cliff-line is pushing down on the deep down underlying layers of rock/sediment, causing it to squeeze out and up . . . . very similar to what happened at the Black's Beach landslide last year down in La Jolla. Check out that video at the end. Very fascinating.
I was always fascinated with this area as I lived not too far away and remember visiting Marineland many times as a kid. Going to Harbor College in 1979 and taking Geology we had a field trip and learned about this area. I was fascinated and would enjoy sharing my knowledge with all the visitors we took to the area and visiting the glass church. I was a guest at a friend’s wedding at the glass church. Such a beautiful place. Holds a special place in my ❤.
i miss Marineland. I wish that Terranea would have adopted some of the tanks, baja reef, and some of the rescue projects and help the community learn about our sealife offshore.. ohh well. Marineland was also used to help rescue animals that were hurt or with disease.
Your video explains a lot of the changes that are going on. Thanks. The ancient landslide extends to the ocean shore and while one end of it is subsiding near the top, this end is rising as the slide mass is moving. Not as dramatic at the bottom but just as relentless.
"A moratorium for building until they can get the ground to stop moving."🤔 Now there's a sentence...... quite a sentence.... 🙏 Excellent video Sir!! ❤🙏
Bentonite is an absorbent swelling clay. As a swelling clay bentonite has the ability to absorb large quantities of water, which increases its volume by up to a factor of 8. This makes bentonite beds unsuitable for building and road construction.
My siblings and I grew up there. Silver Spur, Malaga Cove and Rolling Hills. Some of my family still lives there. Such a magical magnificent place! Thank you so much for your perspective and video, makes me long for those hills!
This is one of the better posts I think I've ever seen on YT. Absolutely fascinating! Thank you for sharing your historical knowledge of the area past and present. It is a difficult subject to broach, knowing that so many people will undoubtedly lose their homes quite soon, it appears. However, this is truly a unique and rare opportunity to observe this earth doing what it will do in spite of the human component. Thank you for walking this beautiful bit of coastline and putting forth the visible facts of this massive land movement. Facts the general public might never be told by mainstream media. Oh yes, the comments are outstanding! I'm sure you're enjoying reading them all.
@@lynnda8764 thanks for watching. Actually, the comments have been tough. I appreciate your comment and common sense, however, some other people are harsh and accuse me of foul play when they really have no idea what's going on. Fact is; the movement and situation has changed and the community is now trying to work together to stop more loss. Thank you for your kind thoughtful words)
@@lynnda8764 Many have been negatively impacted by the RPV slide. They are angry and blame others for their loss. Cannot really blame them. But the geologists, engineers and construction contractors can only do so much. Nature bats last.
I spent most of my early life on that Beach it changed about 30 years ago after some big storms there used to be some wonderful tide pools that were really long and had lots of Life they were covered now looks like a lot of stuff coming back and the original appears you were showing that was from the Portuguese Bend Pier but it's nice to see the beach coming back in that old area I hope that this happens to unlock the wonderful tide pools that were filled up I Boogie boarded and surfed out there when they're used to have good waves also
I hope the residents in that area realize they must move out now. Eventually winter rains and earthquake activity will cause a massive landslide towards the ocean.
Thank you. My GG grandfather was from Portugal. He lived in Lisbon and the Azores. He worked on whaling ships. It was interesting to see the shore and discoveries on your video. ❤ dove❤
Hi Jason. Thanks for the tour. Haven't been there since 1969-70. Went to school there. It looks very different. Brought back memories of hanging at the Portuguese Beach Club. Wow.
@@hw260 true - its the second most popular question right now. the slide is an isolated area and not affecting all of Palos Verdes, there has been some mis-information out there.
Some people have a god complex. I really realized that in Hawaii. Natives had a different respect for nature. Didn’t build in certain areas. Then others came and wonder why their houses and bridges keep getting washed away. When I lived there, I always told my kids: “if locals aren’t in the water, you need not be either.”
@@PalosVerdesHouses Now a month after you posted this things have worsened with apparently an additional unknown slide plane being discovered. Is there still any sense that this can be stopped?
I lived at 1 lime tree and also 3 limetree. We renovated both houses. It was such an incredible place to live, and the cove down there is really cool, I loved how it was like being an old california. There's no huge beach parking lots for the masses of inland heirs to come ruin it. RPV and that reserve at Portuguese bend is it incredible place, very magical. And the land movement keeps it that way
Former RHHS grad, got fond memories of Rat Beach and the tide pools I'd love to explore the fossils that are now uncovered. I also remember that hairpin turn Tiger Woods cracked up on.
I am 70 and grew up on the beach south of here. City of HB. I watched this area as a kid; even then, we saw the ground movement and how the roads shifted to the point where gas and water lines were built above the streets.
Very cool video! Thanks for pointing out some of the changes that are rapidly happening there in the beach area. I find this kind of geological stuff to be very fascinating. I don’t think, however, that they will ever be able to stop the land movement. The whale skull near the end of the video was also a fascinating find!
I grew up above Rat beach (Malaga Cove) . In the early `70's us kids would hike and tidepool that entire stretch, it looked nothing like it does in this video. We use to fish and crab off the "Jumping Pier" that was around that area, when a larger swell was running you could feel the pier rocking on it's pylons. Great memories!
Man, what a public service and a fascinating piece of breaking news! I grew up around the bend in San Pedro and still have a few Pleistocene fossils we pulled out of the dirt when the LAPD station near Channel Street was being excavated in the early 1960s. Thinking like a taxpayer, I'll say that the evidence of slides is everywhere in PV and always has been, so I'm not sure why the people in the current Portuguese Bend slide area think it's feasible to be compensated by the government. While it's sliding, the entire coastline is still rising out of the sea, amazing and beautiful to watch. But there are some places that shouldn't be developed, and Portuguese Bend is one of them.
What?!! Thanks for sharing this very important event. I hadn't heard about it! The land is truly shifting people. Some may have to move from the coast.
In addition to the great changes in the shoe line you illustrate, this is a great lesson in what we might wish for. As a child in LA our family may have driven by this area, amazed at the beauty that money could buy. The people who live here now have challenges that I hope are surmountable. I wish them all the luck and strength they will need for this huge challenge.
Amazing - thank you for the insight view on the West Coast. You show us - what news stations never reveal. These people with damage homes have to be devastated.
So interesting. My brother lives up in Portuguese Bend, the gated community. You may know him and his wife, Mac and Joan Mcclellan. They are working to save their house. What a beautiful area. We visit every summer.
I grew up in Lakewood so not terribly far from PV but I remember visiting and my dad used to say it was gonna end up in the ocean,so sad because it’s beautiful 🥺
I grew up there also. Long time ago when marine land was there. I had a friends who lived in the Portuguese beach club. The homes there look much newer and larger. I’m surprised it hasn’t started slipping. Fun video
i miss Marineland - I thought the hotel could have kept some of the animal rescue stuff and even incorporated Baja Reef into a learning center recreation save the planet education program... ohh well...
I grew up in the Caribbean. Our beach front, Atlantic side is 1/3 of what it was. Now when we have storms we get sand in the little beach house. But, she is still there after 70+ yrs.
I just returned to CA after 3 full years on the Mekong River in Vietnam on a shallow draft wooden hull patrol boat in 1968 with only one objective to get on with my life with no plan so I rented a house on a cliff grand view of Catalina on Paseo Del Mar. Not a window to open as the house was sliding ever so slowly to the beach approximately 60 ft below. San Pedro to my left and Rancho Palos Verdes to my left. Google Earth shows the house no longer there. Went back east off to law school that was 55 years ago.
Thank you for sharing. Very informative of the geological effects the slide is having on the actual coastline. It all comes down to wet Bentonite. Thanks again.
I’ve been watching this unfortunate chain of events in Portuguese Bend in the news for quite a while and nobody explained the cause and effect like you did. I understand it way better now. Well done !!
I lived on Ocean Terrace Dr in the 90s and early 2000s, watched Marineland get taken down and all the homes, golf course, and resort get built, the PBC was always my idea of where I wanted to retire to … life took a turn and I don’t live on the hill any more, but often think about coming back
Been a longtime enjoyer of the area. Love the beaches. Dove the cave back in the day. Big changes from when i first visited in 1978. Lived in the area 1993. I really appreciate this video. Thanks for sharing.
Take a visit to San Pedro's "Sunken City", several streets which went down the cliff many years ago. You can still see remnants of building foundations for houses, gas and electrical pipes and the vague outlines of streets. It's erie..ghostly. All these homes built in these cliff-adjacent areas are going to meet the same fate, eventually. Sad for residents..and who wouldn't want to have that view in your front yard..but what did you expect?
Late to the party!! So interesting. Thank you Jason, from North Carolina and New Jersey. Love the geo-journalism. You should look up Matthew LaCroix, a You Tuber on Ancient Civilizations (Sumerian) vis-a-vis the fossil findings. Do a dig together. And look at what is happening at New Madrid.
Joe, cool video! I was down there a month ago and I was blown away also. I have lived here my entire 60 years and have never seen anything like it!! As far as the homes in PB, they have been moving since the 1950's. Most if not all the homes were put up onto railroad ties or lifted from there foundations. These houses have basically been worthless for a longtime. I remember years ago you could buy some, but it had to be all cash. No bank would ever give you a mortgage. Also, they were offered to local police and fireman. The now speed of the landslide is what is astonishing!!!
I grew up there. Walked that beach many times as a youth. You probably know what was hidden in that curve before the cave (which was a fun swim). Drove waaaaaay too fast as a teenager on the slide zone (but those jumps were so much fun). Thanks for the update.
I was talking about the two jumps the other day,, now its just one big hill and the other is not too steep. curiosity though, i'm not sure I know whats hidden in the cave...
I was part of the first graduating class of 1963 at Palos Verdes high school great area to growup and we'd drive to school passed Portuguese Bend and several times the road dropped over a foot and we'd have to turn around and travel through Rolling Hills to get to school.
I attended high school at Fermin Lausen, there on Western Avenue where it then turns into Royal Palms if I recall correctly. but the area you're describing is actually north of Royal Palms is that correct, I used to jog along paseo del mar, from Pacific Avenue and there was another sunken city over there at the end of Pacific, pvdr south always had exposed steel sewer lines along the road. it was a good place to grow up. greetings from humboldt
This is really a cool video. I'm interested in all of the infrastructure that is showing now down at White Point and Royal Palms in San Pedro now. It's incredible.
Citizen journalism is the best way to find real, truthful news these days. It's an invaluable service. Thank you, Mr. Buck.
@@Krypt24 thanks for watching
And we can connect through webs of interest. Reaping the rewards of being a cognitively diverse social species is so important. Not just to survival but to the quality of our day-to-day lives. It makes me cry, I'm such a nerd 😂
You know, I agree with you. I don’t watch the news, but I do follow RUclipsrs whom I respect.
@@PalosVerdesHousesin your personal experience, do you think the whole Peninsula will go bye bye? Since the movement is definitely moving weekly and very noticeable.
@@DaveR-d9n no. Most of Palos Verdes is on bedrock called PV Stone. The PB area has a layer of bentonite which is causing the slide. It is an isolated area of slippery gray clay like material.
They will never stop that land from moving. The contractors will get rich trying though
it didn't move as much during the drought
@@PalosVerdesHouses True but what happens when the massive ocean finds a pathway underneath the land? it will then start to move much faster. If it were me, I'd count my loses and move especially those much closer to the coastal line.
Nature will always find a way to take back what we tried to tame. It might take a dozen years it might take thousands but we're not stopping it 😆
As will the ruthless real estate agents selling this to dopey people. Pure evil.
😅interesting, thanks
Amazing. That beach you're walking on at 4:30, for example, was not there last year. I can understand your fascination with it. Such things led me to geophysics.
Thank you so much for this. You cannot get information like this from the regular sources. Videos like this are what RUclips was made for in my opinion.
its changing daily, and noticable after a few days. really unfortunate for the homeowners
@@PalosVerdesHouses I watched a video here of a couple on the road that "used to be 55mph" went up then back down that short but very steep hill. When they went down it, just from the view outside the window, you felt that sharp drop. I chuckled.
If they can adequately drain it perhaps it could be saved but…
(They don't have that much money.)
Edit: there has to be a video of a truck that didn't make it up that hill. 😉
Nice,,no more only private beach😂😂😂
I've been exploring this specific coast, doing amatuer paleobiology and geology. I'm hoping to get accepted into the new UCLA school and start a PHD on all this action. You basically made a video I was hoping to make. In fact, I was hanging out with my wife near one of the newly formed pools. I think you probably passed right by us, asked for permission as you walked right by our bare feet.
There's a couple of huge petrified stumps that also got unearthed. I'll probably make the video now that I'm inspired. The history here goes way back. But essentially the easy answer here is that the cliffs and entire landmass itself is being uplifted by tectonic forces. We could pump out all the water and the land would still crumble as it rises. I'm not a local; I live in South Central but chose to teach in Palos Verdes this Summer so I can be closer to the Landslide.
I see a lot of hate between locals and LA people, negative comments back and forth and people being happy that homes are being destroyed. Really all I care about is the petrified wood which contains a record of our climate from the past. All that precious information is just being exposed and washed away while everyone sleeps. Anyways thanks for the inspiration.
The benotnite is breaking down and creating a cloud of clay all along the shoreline.
Let me know if you ever go exploring there!! I wanna tag along. Another college student interested in exploring this new world
I look forward to you documenting your geologic observations.
Awesome, Im guessing the new SouthBay UCLA campus formerly Marymount campus
Love that you live in s.central but choose to teach in Palos Verdes. I'm a novice as far as paleobiology and geology goes but it fascinates. I'm grateful I have lived close to this area all my life . I have also unfortunately lived in s.central so I can appreciate the fresh air here by the ocean. No hate from me brother. Enjoy.
You should keep a running video diary of the changes in the beach and landscape - showing the world the changes in Palos Verdes!!!
Nobody cares
I care. I’d love to see the changes over time.
And any new fossils you might find..
I agree. I would look forward to seeing an updated video showing the changes during a given time.
As a kid my grandfather took us on many hikes starting at Torrance Beach and finally ending in San Pedro, I would have never believed you that there as a beach in that location. Amazing video!
there was not one here last holiday season.. its astonishing how much its changed in this area
When we lived in Manhattan Beach in the 1970s, the Palos Verdes roads were moving back then.
yes, the slide in Portuguese Bend started in the 50's when they were making Crenshaw blvd and ruptured a spring..
@@PalosVerdesHouses Great information. Thank you!
@@PalosVerdesHousesWhat spring? Where?
@@db-rc5fr under ground.
Earth is a living, breathing, moving being just like us!🤘💙🇺🇸
Well Said!
The ocean is revealing her secrets. Oceans not rising....the land is! Wild!
The earth is constantly changing 👍👍
Hard to imagine all those fossils just lying on the beach. Seems like would be a dream for a young paleontologist.
The world's first true paleontologist made her finds on a beach. (Mary Anning, at Lyme Regis along the English Channel in the UK.)
You are right, that _is_ fascinating! Thanks for posting! 👍👍
Way cool survey of conditions - thanks! Glad to learn about the fossils and bentonite.
But still, so sorry others are losing their homes to this circumstance.
yes - its very sad to see the destruction
Mother Nature just moving her furniture around
I love this reply. I agree thank you.
Exactly. Especially the California shoreline. Taking a chance in building homes on such a geography.
Awesome comment... That's what I see hiking fascinating stuff
Palos Verdes used to be one of the channel islands a few million years back.
@@evetsnitram8866 Seriously 👀
That is a huge amount of land moving, great report
I grew up in San Pedro and used to go to Portuguese Bend back in the '70's. We used to swim across the channels, at the point. and swam into the caves timing the wave surge. There used to be an old broken down wooden pier. that we would climb up and jump off the end of ! There used to be some big purple Jellyfish that we would avoid! Thanks for the memories!!
Wow that’s a beautiful area with beautiful homes! I cannot believe anyone buying a home in that area would build on what could - eventually disappear into the sand!
I grew up in Rancho Palos Verdes. I’m 52 now and my parents still live there. But when they moved there in the early 1980s they knew about the sliding. Where they live is high up on the hill. They have a view of the ports of Long Beach and San Pedro, the breakwater and a little bit of the ocean outside of the breakwater. Most of the view is of the city lights. It’s the same city but miles away from the slide areas. It’s always been sliding and it was never a secret. People who bought homes in the slide area knew it. A lot of them would justify it and say it only slides 1-2” per year. But to buy a home and pay a lot of money for it in a known slide area is not the smartest move. My parents wanted to move there for the school district and they worked hard. But they never would have bought a house that was slowly sliding into the ocean. People pay $2-3 million for a tiny house in the slide area. If the area was not sliding into the ocean the houses would be more expensive. In the 1920s the area was surveyed and was unstable then. Then in the 1950s there were slides with one of them happening in 1956. I don’t understand how people think that it somehow would stop sliding. There is a lot more to the area and there are gorgeous homes that are not in the slide area.
I grew up on the peninsula back in the 60s and 70s. We used to surf PBC where a left hander would break off the sea wall. The beach was rock with only a smattering of sand. I remember seeing neighborhood garages that were jacked up and garage doors unable to close; one half of a house would be fine and the other half would be a wreck. It was crazy. There was the old pier out toward Abalone Cove and we filmed a chase scene on it for a class at Miraleste High School. The land was like nothing I had ever seen - jumbled and falling to pieces. It was an amazing place to grow up and your video reminded me of how magical it was for a kid.
And people kept buying and developing properties there. And now they want tax payers to bail them out.
Mr Buck I really enjoyed your observations and enthusiasm and historical perspective. Thanks!!
I grew up hiking those cliffs, including the abandoned Vanderlip estate - hung out at Sacred Cove in the 80s. It’s always been moving, never any guarantees.
In light of the current situation, sounds like it’s time to give up the ghost for many up there. Nature always wins.
Those fossils are amazing.
In a couple thousand years, what's left of those homes will be the "fossils".
Man, it’s a great place to be beach combing daily right now. Imagine the fossils… Who knows what it will turn up. Great video 🙏❤️
Eastern Shore of Virginia here. That was my thought also. Geology and Fossils and Artifacts what a way to spend the day.
Or or or we could get buried alive
@@alwaysyouramandaGlass half empty Amanda?😂😅
Bentonite isn't just slippery when wet, it's super slippery; it expands many times over when wet and that really helps the ground move. The whole area from Abalone to San Pedro has bentonite. Sunken City started collapsing long before the events 1929 and it will keep moving long after the neighborhood above is gone to the sea.
is there bentonite at Sunken City?
that's terrible. that bentonite is great for making greensand, but it looks so ugly on that beach. what a cursed land. Although, i must say, its great for fossils and geologist studies. I'll stick to the beauty of the desert.
Thanks for sharing this visit to the beach that is changing so rapidly due to the landslide movements. It is excellent documentation of the changing landscape for geologists to view.
Fascinating - thank you for sharing your knowledge of your home town
Jason you really did a great job on this video. I like it a lot and thank you for sending it my way. Keep in touch. Joe
Thanks for your input. We need to go back- it's changed a lot since we were there.
I just watched the news reporting on shutting off electricity to a 140 homes in RPV. I'm afraid the land shifting is beyond reversal.
that may be possible. There is a lot of open land, so the danger of fire from a downed power line is severe and forced Edison to shut the power off.
THE LAND SHIFTING IS BEYOND REVERSAL. Duh
Recall driving through the area as a kid on family outings to PV and occasional trips to Marineland of the Pacific.
@@williamlloyd3769 I miss Marineland.. was a marvelous spot
I miss Marineland too!!
Same parents took me and siblings grandparents there for my 9th bday. So beautiful.❤
@@Mychellechic great place for a birthday!
I miss it too!! Went there a lot as a kid growing up in SoCal. Don’t miss the earthquakes😜
This is one of the best reports about what is going on. A Geologist in another report said the all of this movement is much deeper that anyone realizes. I have been watching some RUclips videos about Geology, something that was not available years ago when I was traveling the US a lot. This appears to be the result of the Pacific plate sliding under the North American plate. It is called subduction and I think this is what is happening at Palos Verdes. Just a thought from an old guy who stayed in a Holiday Inn Express last night. Chuckle, Chuckle. I am surprised more Geologists have not been out there to see what is happening. Maybe they have, and there is not any reporting on it.
more mountains forming...
The Palos Verdes Fault Zone (PVFZ) is not where the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate collide and subduct. Per my understanding, this area of California is where the subduction zone converted to a right lateral slip zone about 20 million years ago, and is now known as the San Andreas Fault, which is about 100 miles east, northeast from Palos Verdes. One article describes the PVFZ as a right-lateral reverse displacement.
@@GSMSfromFV Thank you. I did a little more research and found that. But what explains the lifting of the beach that Jason was pointing out. If the Farrallon and Pacific plates a sliding along to the north and are not subducting in Southern Calif., then there must be a deformity that is lifting the beach at that point. Is there something specific I could go research to help me understand this. Again, just a novice here trying to understand a little more about our planet. Thanks.
@@DaveBartholomew-uf6sm - I think the heavy weight of the cliff-line is pushing down on the deep down underlying layers of rock/sediment, causing it to squeeze out and up . . . . very similar to what happened at the Black's Beach landslide last year down in La Jolla. Check out that video at the end. Very fascinating.
@@GSMSfromFVThank you.
Thank you so much for showing this.
I was always fascinated with this area as I lived not too far away and remember visiting Marineland many times as a kid. Going to Harbor College in 1979 and taking Geology we had a field
trip and learned about this area. I was fascinated and would enjoy sharing my knowledge with all the visitors we took to the area and visiting the glass church. I was a guest at a friend’s wedding at the glass church. Such a beautiful place. Holds a special place in my ❤.
i miss Marineland. I wish that Terranea would have adopted some of the tanks, baja reef, and some of the rescue projects and help the community learn about our sealife offshore.. ohh well. Marineland was also used to help rescue animals that were hurt or with disease.
Your video explains a lot of the changes that are going on. Thanks.
The ancient landslide extends to the ocean shore and while one end of it is subsiding near the top, this end is rising as the slide mass is moving. Not as dramatic at the bottom but just as relentless.
Just watched your video. I lived in RPV in the early 80s . What a wonderful memory! Thanks for tour! I now live in Naples Florida I’ll keep watching
From one unstable peninsula to the next. Nice 👍!!!
@@MeMeVoyageOf what is unstable about the Florida peninsula?
"A moratorium for building until they can get the ground to stop moving."🤔
Now there's a sentence...... quite a sentence.... 🙏 Excellent video Sir!! ❤🙏
@@theresehopkins1581 thanks for watching. When we were in a drought there was a lot less movement.
Excellent video. Can't wait to check out the new beach next Christmas
Thank you. Its awesome hearing all this from somebody who grew up in the area. Keep it up
thanks for watching
About 20 years ago we spent 6 months filling every septic tank with gravel when they went to above ground sewer system due to movement
They’re about to have a nasty sewage spill next
@@alwaysyouramanda Which is why they moved the lines above ground, Sweetheart
Mahalo Jason for the best tour of the Portuguese bend beach You are the local. God bless PV
Bentonite is an absorbent swelling clay. As a swelling clay bentonite has the ability to absorb large quantities of water, which increases its volume by up to a factor of 8. This makes bentonite beds unsuitable for building and road construction.
My siblings and I grew up there. Silver Spur, Malaga Cove and Rolling Hills. Some of my family still lives there. Such a magical magnificent place! Thank you so much for your perspective and video, makes me long for those hills!
The earth is a living organism. You can't stop it from moving. Human beings need to adapt to the environment.
Don’t forget we’re living too, don’t turn your back on your own kind just because a cliff fell into the sea
@@Ndw1995😂😂we live because of mother earth..... Bless your heart.....
Not as long as we have food delivery.
All of the mountains on earth desire to be flat and are falling to the sea (sea level).
The earth moves and little man cannot do much except stay out of the way.
This is one of the better posts I think I've ever seen on YT. Absolutely fascinating! Thank you for sharing your historical knowledge of the area past and present. It is a difficult subject to broach, knowing that so many people will undoubtedly lose their homes quite soon, it appears. However, this is truly a unique and rare opportunity to observe this earth doing what it will do in spite of the human component. Thank you for walking this beautiful bit of coastline and putting forth the visible facts of this massive land movement. Facts the general public might never be told by mainstream media. Oh yes, the comments are outstanding! I'm sure you're enjoying reading them all.
@@lynnda8764 thanks for watching. Actually, the comments have been tough. I appreciate your comment and common sense, however, some other people are harsh and accuse me of foul play when they really have no idea what's going on. Fact is; the movement and situation has changed and the community is now trying to work together to stop more loss.
Thank you for your kind thoughtful words)
@@lynnda8764 Many have been negatively impacted by the RPV slide. They are angry and blame others for their loss. Cannot really blame them. But the geologists, engineers and construction contractors can only do so much. Nature bats last.
I spent most of my early life on that Beach it changed about 30 years ago after some big storms there used to be some wonderful tide pools that were really long and had lots of Life they were covered now looks like a lot of stuff coming back and the original appears you were showing that was from the Portuguese Bend Pier but it's nice to see the beach coming back in that old area I hope that this happens to unlock the wonderful tide pools that were filled up I Boogie boarded and surfed out there when they're used to have good waves also
there are still some tidepools near the cave at the point.
I hope the residents in that area realize they must move out now. Eventually winter rains and earthquake activity will cause a massive landslide towards the ocean.
They are trying by selling at the current " market price" somewhere around $5M and hopefully some fool will pay for their exist.
I don't think earthquakes so much will bring it down. It's the clay that's wet and heavy pulling it down.
Thank you 😊
Very informative, as a Southern Californian I appreciate this very much !
Thank you. My GG grandfather was from Portugal. He lived in Lisbon and the Azores. He worked on whaling ships. It was interesting to see the shore and discoveries on your video.
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Hi Jason. Thanks for the tour. Haven't been there since 1969-70. Went to school there. It looks very different. Brought back memories of hanging at the Portuguese Beach Club. Wow.
In the last 6 months the movement has increased tremendously.. its changing constantly.
@@PalosVerdesHouses That must be challenging for your business. Makes for hesitant buyers.
@@hw260 true - its the second most popular question right now. the slide is an isolated area and not affecting all of Palos Verdes, there has been some mis-information out there.
he actually said, "until they get the land to stop moving." that sounds like a futile statement to me.
Some people have a god complex. I really realized that in Hawaii. Natives had a different respect for nature. Didn’t build in certain areas. Then others came and wonder why their houses and bridges keep getting washed away. When I lived there, I always told my kids: “if locals aren’t in the water, you need not be either.”
@@deldena the land did not move as much during the draught.. after the heavy rains there has been a lot more movement.
@@PalosVerdesHouses Now a month after you posted this things have worsened with apparently an additional unknown slide plane being discovered. Is there still any sense that this can be stopped?
@@michaelacookePDX unfortunately not yet. now power and gas have been shut off to a large section of the area.
It is never going yo be stopped. Maybe delayed?
I was a young Marine {1961 - 1964] and I loved the southern California coastlin !
Awesome video, Jason! Thank you for sharing ❤
I lived at 1 lime tree and also 3 limetree. We renovated both houses. It was such an incredible place to live, and the cove down there is really cool, I loved how it was like being an old california. There's no huge beach parking lots for the masses of inland heirs to come ruin it. RPV and that reserve at Portuguese bend is it incredible place, very magical. And the land movement keeps it that way
Former RHHS grad, got fond memories of Rat Beach and the tide pools I'd love to explore the fossils that are now uncovered. I also remember that hairpin turn Tiger Woods cracked up on.
Hawthorne & Blackhorse!
Tiger crashed going down Hawthorne Blvd past Blackhorse before PVDN.
I am 70 and grew up on the beach south of here. City of HB. I watched this area as a kid; even then, we saw the ground movement and how the roads shifted to the point where gas and water lines were built above the streets.
Me too‼️
An updated video would be greatly appreciated. Thank you so much for all your help
Very cool video! Thanks for pointing out some of the changes that are rapidly happening there in the beach area. I find this kind of geological stuff to be very fascinating. I don’t think, however, that they will ever be able to stop the land movement. The whale skull near the end of the video was also a fascinating find!
Fascinating! Thank you for posting
Enjoyed your video. I grew up inland but we used to drive thru and enjoy the beach
I grew up above Rat beach (Malaga Cove) . In the early `70's us kids would hike and tidepool that entire stretch, it
looked nothing like it does in this video. We use to fish and crab off the "Jumping Pier" that was around that area,
when a larger swell was running you could feel the pier rocking on it's pylons. Great memories!
Amazing video❤ I grew up in Portuguese Bend and still have family there. It is really unreal how much it changed.
Man, what a public service and a fascinating piece of breaking news! I grew up around the bend in San Pedro and still have a few Pleistocene fossils we pulled out of the dirt when the LAPD station near Channel Street was being excavated in the early 1960s. Thinking like a taxpayer, I'll say that the evidence of slides is everywhere in PV and always has been, so I'm not sure why the people in the current Portuguese Bend slide area think it's feasible to be compensated by the government. While it's sliding, the entire coastline is still rising out of the sea, amazing and beautiful to watch. But there are some places that shouldn't be developed, and Portuguese Bend is one of them.
What?!! Thanks for sharing this very important event. I hadn't heard about it! The land is truly shifting people. Some may have to move from the coast.
yes, there are homes that are getting pulled apart - very sad..
In addition to the great changes in the shoe line you illustrate, this is a great lesson in what we might wish for. As a child in LA our family may have driven by this area, amazed at the beauty that money could buy. The people who live here now have challenges that I hope are surmountable. I wish them all the luck and strength they will need for this huge challenge.
I used to swim there. It's so beautiful 😢
I grew up in Torrance and we used to go up there a lot in the 70's 80's. Fascinating and awesome vid. Thank you!
This fascinating to see I live in the mountains of North Alabama,I love geology, California is an active state.
Man, it’s a great place to be beach combing daily right now. Who knows what it will turn up. Great video 🙏❤️
Amazing - thank you for the insight view on the West Coast. You show us - what news stations never reveal.
These people with damage homes have to be devastated.
So interesting. My brother lives up in Portuguese Bend, the gated community. You may know him and his wife, Mac and Joan Mcclellan. They are working to save their house. What a beautiful area. We visit every summer.
I am sending good vibes for them to fix and continue to enjoy the area! its a challenging time and I wish them the best
Thank you Jason, great vid!
Thanks Katie.. pretty incredible to witness all of the changes..
I grew up in Lakewood so not terribly far from PV but I remember visiting and my dad used to say it was gonna end up in the ocean,so sad because it’s beautiful 🥺
Absolutely amazing! I have to check it out!
Wow, I don't think I have ever seen rocks at the beach or ocean. Thank you for talking about this.
The English coast is almost all rock..
Reminds me of the Dalles, Oregon sliding into the river. It's very slow, but houses having problems.
I grew up there also. Long time ago when marine land was there. I had a friends who lived in the Portuguese beach club. The homes there look much newer and larger. I’m surprised it hasn’t started slipping. Fun video
i miss Marineland - I thought the hotel could have kept some of the animal rescue stuff and even incorporated Baja Reef into a learning center recreation save the planet education program... ohh well...
I grew up in the Caribbean. Our beach front, Atlantic side is 1/3 of what it was. Now when we have storms we get sand in the little beach house. But, she is still there after 70+ yrs.
Good Stuff thumbs Up!!
I just returned to CA after 3 full years on the Mekong River in Vietnam on a shallow draft wooden hull patrol boat in 1968 with only one objective to get on with my life with no plan so I rented a house on a cliff grand view of Catalina on Paseo Del Mar. Not a window to open as the house was sliding ever so slowly to the beach approximately 60 ft below. San Pedro to my left and Rancho Palos Verdes to my left. Google Earth shows the house no longer there. Went back east off to law school that was 55 years ago.
Thank you for sharing. Very informative of the geological effects the slide is having on the actual coastline. It all comes down to wet Bentonite. Thanks again.
Mother Nature At It's Finest
I’ve been watching this unfortunate chain of events in Portuguese Bend in the news for quite a while and nobody explained the cause and effect like you did. I understand it way better now. Well done !!
I lived on Ocean Terrace Dr in the 90s and early 2000s, watched Marineland get taken down and all the homes, golf course, and resort get built, the PBC was always my idea of where I wanted to retire to … life took a turn and I don’t live on the hill any more, but often think about coming back
its a beautiful area, let me know if you want more information on other homes in the area
Prospectors have been finding several nuggets in all of this exposed sediment. Great panning.
Very cool. I love stuff like this. Keep us updated.
This was very interesting. Thank. you.
thanks for watching
Refreshing talk. I’ll check it out. Thanks. I also grew up in the area. RHCDS & M Costa ‘71.
Been a longtime enjoyer of the area. Love the beaches. Dove the cave back in the day. Big changes from when i first visited in 1978. Lived in the area 1993. I really appreciate this video. Thanks for sharing.
It was a steady movement until recently, and now it changes each week.. thanks for watching
@@PalosVerdesHouses in Hawaii now but I’ll be visiting in September and will take a look. Take care
Its been changing for millions of years.
Take a visit to San Pedro's "Sunken City", several streets which went down the cliff many years ago. You can still see remnants of building foundations for houses, gas and electrical pipes and the vague outlines of streets. It's erie..ghostly. All these homes built in these cliff-adjacent areas are going to meet the same fate, eventually. Sad for residents..and who wouldn't want to have that view in your front yard..but what did you expect?
Late to the party!! So interesting. Thank you Jason, from North Carolina and New Jersey. Love the geo-journalism. You should look up Matthew LaCroix, a You Tuber on Ancient Civilizations (Sumerian) vis-a-vis the fossil findings. Do a dig together. And look at what is happening at New Madrid.
Joe, cool video! I was down there a month ago and I was blown away also. I have lived here my entire 60 years and have never seen anything like it!! As far as the homes in PB, they have been moving since the 1950's. Most if not all the homes were put up onto railroad ties or lifted from there foundations. These houses have basically been worthless for a longtime. I remember years ago you could buy some, but it had to be all cash. No bank would ever give you a mortgage. Also, they were offered to local police and fireman. The now speed of the landslide is what is astonishing!!!
Thank you! Fascinating and Beautiful!
Thanks for watching
Beautiful over there. I love PV. I hope they can save that area
I grew up there. Walked that beach many times as a youth. You probably know what was hidden in that curve before the cave (which was a fun swim). Drove waaaaaay too fast as a teenager on the slide zone (but those jumps were so much fun). Thanks for the update.
I was talking about the two jumps the other day,, now its just one big hill and the other is not too steep. curiosity though, i'm not sure I know whats hidden in the cave...
@@GetOutsideYourself nude beach. Used to be a part of that community.
I was part of the first graduating class of 1963 at Palos Verdes high school great area to growup and we'd drive to school passed Portuguese Bend and several times the road dropped over a foot and we'd have to turn around and travel through Rolling Hills to get to school.
I am impressed with your "documentary". Very informative and entertaining, good job.
thanks for watching
Thanks for this video Jason! So fascinating and great to hear from a local 👍🏼🙏🏼
I attended high school at Fermin Lausen, there on Western Avenue where it then turns into Royal Palms if I recall correctly. but the area you're describing is actually north of Royal Palms is that correct, I used to jog along paseo del mar, from Pacific Avenue and there was another sunken city over there at the end of Pacific, pvdr south always had exposed steel sewer lines along the road. it was a good place to grow up. greetings from humboldt
Hey Humboldt, it’s stunningly beautiful there, too. Went to HSU (then HSC), for 2 years and loved it!
yes, this is north of Royal Palms.. close to where the pipes were above ground
This is really a cool video. I'm interested in all of the infrastructure that is showing now down at White Point and Royal Palms in San Pedro now. It's incredible.
Thank you. Very interesting!
Thank you sir for this very informative video!
It shows how big the earth and nature are and how insignificant we humans are. There are still some that don't get that LOL!!
What’s wild is with allll of this land in the US, we insist on “terraforming” despite our massive failures