June 1, 2017 12:25 pm

Gigantic Big Sur Landslide ‘Could Have Filled 800 Olympic-Sized Swimming Pools:' USGS

The Big Sur landslide that closed off a portion of California’s coast was so big it “could have filled 800 Olympic-sized swimming pools, buried Highway 1 more than 65 feet deep, and created about 13 acres of new land,” USGS scientists said Thursday.

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