The Problem 4 placemark takes you to an ENE view of a steep, seaward-sloping face behind the flat, coastal sea terrace on which people have built homes. The placemark is positioned on the most recent, active mudslide, which is the infamous La Conchita mudslide. Why do you think this mudslide occurred?

Placemark takes you to an ENE view of a steep, seaward-sloping face behind the flat, coastal sea terrace on which people have built homes. The place mark is positioned on the most recent, active mudslide, which is the infamous La Conchita mudslide. Why do you think this mudslide occurred? On January 10, 2005, a landslide struck the community of La Conchita in Ventura County, California, destroying or seriously damaging 36 houses and killing 10 people.

the area has little vegetation to hold the soil

the area could have been undercut by the road halfway up the slope

the sea terrace on which the houses sit has over-steepened the cliff

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