SIO 15 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Mike Aguirre, The San Diego Union-Tribune, Debris Flow
4 Dec 2017
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Soledad) and too close to cliff edge (some la jolla farms homes; western edge of palos verdes, ca) landscape alteration by aggressive development (oversteepening, overloading) changes to groundwater table (see lecture 11) excess withdrawal can lead to subsidence. Some extreme examples outside of southern california: groundwater withdrawal for farming and cities in san. Joaquin valley resulted in drop of groundwater table by 120m since 1925, surface subsided by. 1995: on march 4, a mudslide buried or damaged 7 homes, after a debris flow followed on march 10 that damaged another 4 and a banana plantation; 2005: on january 10, a massive mudslide buried 4 blocks in ov (30 ft) of earth; 10 fatalities. 15 homes destroyed, 16 uninh home insurance often do not cover mudslides; nb: mudslid actually not be covered at all in la conchita because of the kn recurrence of slides: 1995 slide (source:
