Scientists crack the code on predicting California's deadly cliff collapses

Scientists at UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography found that it is possible to predict a coastal landslide hours, sometimes days, before it happens.
By Rosanna Xia at Los Angeles Times - California · · 1 min read

Scientists at UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography found that it is possible to predict a coastal landslide hours, sometimes days, before it happens.
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