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Landslide on the radar

On 20 May, over a million tonnes of dirt and rock buried part of California’s Highway 1 along the Pacific coastline in the state’s Big Sur region. In addition to cutting off the route, the landslide added some 5 hectares of land to the shoreline.
Copernicus EU Sentinel-1’s radar shows that the ground that slid down the mountain was moving in the two years before the landslide. Click on the link to get the whole picture.

Landslide on the radar