Scientists Predict Coastal Landslides | Irvine News

Presented by The Plant Daddies — rare specimen trees, living art, and hand-carved limestone vessels and fountains for extraordinary spaces. Showrooms in Los Angeles and Irvine. Listeners of Irvine News Today receive 10% off with code LANEWS10. theplantdaddies.com/lanews Scientists at UC San Diego have cracked the code on predicting coastal landslides, successfully warning authorities hours or days before five major slides — including a dramatic 2024 Del Mar bluff collapse that dumped 200 tons onto the beach. Since the 1940s, these deadly slides have claimed 19 lives, with a 2019 Encinitas disaster killing three and halting train service. Driven by that tragedy, Scripps Institution of Oceanography is now racing to turn predictions into a real-time warning system — a lifeline for California’s vulnerable coastlines, especially as an El Niño looms with heavy rain and waves. Lead researcher Adam Young was stunned by how clearly sensors detected the danger — landslides strike anytime, and now, thanks to this breakthrough, we might finally be able to stop them before they strike. Listen in comfort:Get a discount on a Soli Pillow: http://solipillow.com/discount/dnn. Advertise on DNN:[email protected] This is an automated, high-level news summary based on public reporting.Report issues to [email protected]. View sources & latest updates:https://sources.thednn.ai/ed125732c08fdc96