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Zorro

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Sun Jul 7, 2024, 09:20 AM Jul 2024

Rancho Palos Verdes landslide is creating a new beach. 'It's unreal'

There’s an entirely new coastline in Rancho Palos Verdes.

The rapidly expanding and accelerating complex of landslides on the southeastern tip of the Palos Verdes peninsula continues to wreak havoc on the area’s homes, roads and utilities, even forcing the iconic Wayfarers Chapel to abandon its location, at least temporarily.

But it has also led to a new and unforeseen change at the water’s edge: The seafloor has been pushed upward, literally creating new beach.

“That beach is brand new,” said Denny Jaconi, pointing to the rocky shoreline that he said didn’t exist just a few months ago. “There’s three or four of us that have been surfing down here our whole lives, and we’re just blown away because it’s unreal.”

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-07-07/rancho-palos-verdes-uplifting-sea-floor-creating-new-beach

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Rancho Palos Verdes landslide is creating a new beach. 'It's unreal' (Original Post) Zorro Jul 2024 OP
ugliest beach ever BlueWaveNeverEnd Jul 2024 #1
not beach. rocky shoreline. Not the same thing. Reporters suck ZonkerHarris Jul 2024 #2
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