Researchers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory found that portions of land on the Palos Verdes Peninsula, home to an affluent Southern California city that faced an emergency declaration last year, have crept toward the Pacific Ocean by as much as four inches a week,

The Palos Verdes Peninsula in Los Angeles County continues to inch toward the ocean posing danger to life and infrastructure, a NASA report found.

New research from NASA shows that the Palos Verdes Peninsula, an area in the South Bay home to cities like Rancho Palos Verdes, Rolling Hills Estates and San Pedro, is shifting toward the ocean. Data from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory airborne radar shows that during a four-week period last fall,