Landslide

Click the title of the entry for the CNN article.

Landslides are cool. Not for the people whose homes they destroy, but from a geological point of view they are just awesome. My favorite quote from the CNN article about the La Jolla landslide:

Pat Abbott, a retired geological sciences professor at San Diego State University, told the Union-Tribune that Mount Soledad is made up of weak layers of rock and that the culprit in the landslide is nature. "Gravity pulling on the incline is pulling down masses of earth and those masses of earth have houses on top of them," Abbott told the paper. "It's a geologically bad site and should not have been built on to begin with."

There are millions of people in the US who live where they should not. Yes the chances are slim that a landslide, earthquake, flood, or hurricane, is going to destroy your house, so I understand taking that chance. Just be aware of where you live and what could happen, especially before buying a multi-million dollar house.

Luckily nobody was injured.

Really the engineer or whoever ok'd the building permit for the neighborhood is at fault, not the homeowners. I smell a lawsuit!