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	La Conchita, California - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		La Conchita (population 338 in 2000) is a small unincorporated community in western Ventura County, California, on U.S. Route 101 just southeast of the Santa Barbara county line.
		“La Conchita” Spanish for little shell, was first used as the name of a spur on the Southern Pacific railroad line in the 1880s and it was a name generally used to describe a broader area then the present day village.
		La Conchita is at 119.448 degrees west longitude and 34.364 degrees north latitude, on a southwesterly-facing portion of the coast.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/La_Conchita,_California (2855 words)

	Assessing Landslide Hazard Over a 130-Year Period for La Conchita, California
		Residents of La Conchita attributed the cause of the landslide to excessive irrigation by the ranch owners.
		La Conchita is a small coastal town located in Ventura County, California next to the 101 Freeway, approximately 50 miles southeast of Santa Barbara, just down the coast from the town of Carpinteria near Rincon Point (See Figure 1, Location Map, at the end of the paper).
		La Conchita Ranch Co. The premise of the case brought against the ranch owners was that irrigation was the cause of the 1995 landslide, because irrigation has the tendency to raise the water table and potentially cause weakness in hill slopes.
	www.geog.ucsb.edu /~jeff/projects/la_conchita/apcg2001_article/apcg2001_article.html (2776 words)

	CNN.com - Rescuers search for missing in mudslide - Jan 11, 2005
		Unrelenting rains cause a mudslide in La Conchita.
		LA CONCHITA, California (CNN) -- Searchers used their hands to dig through thick mud and debris Tuesday in search of survivors after a mudslide devastated this coastal community northwest of Los Angeles and killed at least six people.
		In 1995, La Conchita was hit by a large mudslide that caused heavy damage.
	www.cnn.com /2005/WEATHER/01/11/california.mudslide/index.html (940 words)

	January 2005 Newsletter
		La Conchita is located near the Pacific Coast Highway in Ventura County, California.
		Another factor that gave California enhanced moisture was the fact the jet stream was oriented from southwest to northeast, which enhanced orographic effects on western and southwestern slopes of mountains and foothills, which enhanced rain and snow amounts.
		La Conchita, California which was the site of that massive landslide received over 8 inches of rain from January 7-11, 2005.
	www.storm2k.org /newsletter/Jan2005-pg4.htm (929 words)

	La Conchita, California information, photos and landslide (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		La Conchita was once a thriving residential town on the east side of Highway 101 across from La Conchita-Seacliff Beach and Mussel Shoals.
		On January 10, 2005, La Conchita, California experienced a landslide and debris flow, the second in less than ten years (the first was in the spring of 1995.) 10 people were killed in this tragic event and homes lost in the 156-home community.
		Highway 101 was closed, and residents were unable to leave La Conchita, though they could walk across the highway to the beach.
	www.beachcalifornia.com.cob-web.org:8888 /seacliff.html (551 words)

	La Conchita: site study introduction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		La Conchita, California is a tiny beach community north of LA, subject, like many places along the coast, to massive debris flows from a ridge above the narrow town site.On January 10, 2005 a devastating mudslide took ten lives and left a huge mass of fallen mountain.
		Geologic and atmospheric conditions are locally very dyanmic and unstable, while the population and transportation pressures on the land remain intense.
		A 1995 debris flow onto La Conchita, non fatal in this instance, is thought to only have released 10 percent of its potential mass, and that possibly, the 2005 and future flows are sequelae to 1995.
	www.christinamcphee.net /la_conchita_/texts/la_conchita_sitestudy.html (219 words)

	La Conchita (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		La Conchita wishes to thank the city and residents of Carpinteria, Ventura, and Santa Barbara for their help and continued support.
		La Conchita is a seaside community located half way between Ventura and Santa Barbara on Highway 101.
		Those who rely on the La Conchita coastal corridor have experienced first hand that La Conchita's problem not only affects the residents but the entire area.
	www.laconchita.net (228 words)

	ramblings of an uberdork » Blog Archive » california boon or bust (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		La Conchita is a tiny little bedroom community wedged in between the Pacific ocean and the hills north of Los Angeles.
		From MSNBC.com: Jack Falk, 48, a longtime La Conchita resident, said the community, located on a slip of land between steep cliffs and the Pacific Ocean, deserved to be saved.
		In 1995, the residents of La Conchita were warned that the hillside can and will come crashing through your front door and there is nothing you can do to prevent it.
	uberdork.supertwist.net /2005/01/12/california-boon-or-bust (709 words)

	Rescuers battle to find California landslide survivors
		Rescue workers in California on Wednesday dug out the dead bodies of a mother and her three children who were buried under a mudslide that has killed at least 10 people in the southern part of the state.
		The mother and children were recovered in La Conchita in the southern California county of Ventura.
		California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger visited the disaster scene and declared a state of emergency in Ventura County, paving the way for state and federal aid.
	www.terradaily.com /2005/050113004143.4mezjpka.html (573 words)

	KSBI-TV - Home - Official: Missing Accounted for in Mudslide
		LA CONCHITA, California (CNN) -- Authorities said Thursday they had accounted for everyone listed as missing in a mudslide this week that killed at least 10 people in La Conchita, California.
		California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger toured La Conchita on Wednesday, pledging to do everything possible to help residents affected by the disaster.
		Parts of Southern California recorded nearly 2 feet of rain in the past week, prompting Los Angeles Mayor James Hahn to declare a state of emergency Wednesday.
	www.ksbitv.com /home/1346081.html (560 words)

	Images - La Conchita (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		An aerial photo of the 1995 La Conchita, CA landslide, slightly west of the main failure area.
		La Conchita is a small seaside community along Highway 101 south of Santa Barbara.
		Aerial view of the 1995 La Conchita, CA Landslide, to the west, where the debris flows occurred.
	landslides.usgs.gov.cob-web.org:8888 /learningeducation/laconchita.php (281 words)

	FOXNews.com - 12 Missing After California Mudslide - U.S. & World
		La Conchita is a slip of a town pressed between a highway and a towering coastal bluff.
		The destruction at La Conchita was the worst disaster of the storms to date, but mudslides and flooding were reported throughout the region, blocking road and rail travel and forcing a shutdown of interstate petroleum supply lines.
		California's death toll also includes a 2-year-old girl who slipped from her mother's grasp as rescuers tried to hoist them from a car submerged on a road outside Los Angeles.
	www.foxnews.com /story/0,2933,143852,00.html (1317 words)

	LaConchita, California mud slides
		A massive mudslide Monday crashed down on the coastal town of La Conchita, killing three, injuring nine and leaving as many as a dozen people missing under tons of mud and rubble.
		In La Conchita, a small community of houses wedged onto a spit of land between the hills south of Santa Barbara and the Pacific Ocean, a massive landslide Monday killed three people, injured ten and left at least 21 unaccounted for.
		Jimmie Wallet picked through piles of his family's belongings Friday, the first day residents of La Conchita were allowed to return to their homes after a deadly landslide ripped through the community four days earlier.
	gogov.com /laconchita.htm (430 words)

	Scholastic News: Deadly Mud Slide
		Although the La Conchita mud slide has claimed the lives of 10 people, just as many people have been pulled out alive.
		La Conchita suffered significant damage in 1995 when another massive mud slide hit the town.
		Heavy rains have wreaked havoc not only in California, but also in other parts of the U.S. Flooding along the Ohio River has forced people in West Virginia, Ohio, and Kentucky to flee their homes.
	teacher.scholastic.com /scholasticnews/news/archive.asp?archive=011305 (382 words)

	Suspenden labores de rescate en California :: Internacionales :: esmas
		Los geólogos, advirtieron que la colina que se encuentra arriba del poblado de la Conchita, podría derrumbarse y causar la muerte a los rescatistas.
		Las intensas lluvias provocaron un deslave que arrasó con una zona residencial, en donde vivían unas 260 personas y que se encuentra a unos 100 kilómetros de la Ciudad de Los Ángeles y que causó la muerte de 10 personas.
		Además, la policía no permite que los habitantes de la Conchita, regresen a sus casas, hasta garantizar que la zona es segura.
	www.esmas.com /noticierostelevisa/internacionales/418303.html (238 words)

	ABC News: La Conchita Residents Lived at Their Own Risk (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		LA CONCHITA, Calif., Jan. 12, 2005 — Following the mudslides that destroyed part of the oceanside community of La Conchita, Calif., emergency workers this morning removed from a pile of demolished houses the bodies of Jimmie Wallet's wife and three young daughters.
		Everyone who lived in La Conchita knew the danger of potential mudslides, but they chose to ignore it or live with it.
		As much as 80 percent of Ventura County, where La Conchita is located on the coast, is marked on maps as being geologically hazardous.
	abcnews.go.com.cob-web.org:8888 /WNT/story?id=407321&page=1 (372 words)

	What can you tell me about the La Conchita landslide area? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		"The La Conchita landslide occurred catastrophically on March 4, 1995 at 2:03 p.m.
		The community of La Conchita had been notified of the potential for failure and the County of Ventura had an emergency response plan implemented.
		"The La Conchita Community is located near the base of a 1.5:1 (horizontal to vertical ascending slope with approximately 600 feet of relief...
	interactive2.usgs.gov /faq/list_faq_by_category/get_answer.asp?id=896 (447 words)

	La Conchita Vacation Rentals, Hotels, Weather, Map and Attractions
		La Conchita’s population is approximately 300, but it was once a thriving banana farming community.
		You will find affordable beach bungalows, as well as huge estates in the town of La Conchita, as this little bit of paradise is fast becoming popular as a place to own a second home.
		California Vacation and Hawaiian Vacation are publications and trademarks of Media Insights, Inc.
	www.californiavacation.com /regions/La-Conchita-California.html (515 words)

	Toll in California mudslide grows
		LA CONCHITA, California Rescue crews on Tuesday pulled a fourth body from a massive pile of mud and debris covering much of this Southern California community after two weeks of nearly unrelenting storms prompted a devastating mudslide.
		It was the worst moment in five days of floods and mudslides, brought on by a series of winter storms that have pummeled California since mid-December, bringing 40 percent more rainfall than the area typically gets all winter.
		The Southern California soil, normally dry, was so saturated that it could no longer absorb the downpours.
	www.iht.com /articles/2005/01/12/news/mud.php (441 words)

	Recent landslides in La Conchita, California belong to much larger prehistoric slide
		The La Conchita landslides that occurred in 1995 and 2005 form only a small percent of a much larger landslide complex, according to the geologists.
		Keller and Gurrola urged that property owners be fairly compensated for their property, and proposed that the site of La Conchita be made into a beach park.
		Perhaps the same could be done for La Conchita, if people insist on living there.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2005-10/uoc--rli101905.php (582 words)

	NBC: Father talks of losing family to mudslide - U.S. News - MSNBC.com
		LA CONCHITA, Calif. - Moments after the mudslide here Monday, Jimmie Wallet fell to his hands and knees and clawed through the debris, frantically searching for his wife and three youngest daughters — all buried in their home almost three stories beneath him.
		Officials warned La Conchita residents on Wednesday that the danger of more mudslides remains high, despite the return of dry, sunny weather.
		Jack Falk, 48, a longtime resident of La Conchita, said the community, located on a slip of land between steep cliffs and the Pacific Ocean, deserved to be saved.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/6821292 (1335 words)

	CNN.com - Search ends in wake of California mudslide - Jan 13, 2005
		The California coast is an inviting -- and potentially deadly -- place to live.
		LA CONCHITA, California (CNN) -- Ventura County Sheriff Bob Brooks declared Thursday that the rescue mission has ended at the site of a mudslide that killed 10 people this week in the coastal community of La Conchita.
		Roper said the last three people remaining on the official list of the missing called authorities Wednesday night to report they were fine, and there were no bodies known to remain in the debris.
	edition.cnn.com /2005/WEATHER/01/13/california.mudslide (932 words)

	Un deslave deja sepultada a una pequeña ciudad de California
		La oficina local de la Cruz Roja del condado de Ventura abrió ocho refugios en la zona de la noche a la mañana, y también recibe llamadas de quienes desean saber sobre la situación de familiares y amigos en la zona.
		A unas 20 millas de La Conchita, alrededor de 350 personas en la ciudad de Piru se refugiaron para pasar la noche en una escuela tras haberse recomendado el desalojo a los 2.000 residentes de toda la ciudad.
		La asistencia para casos de desastre de la Cruz Roja Americana es gratuita, gracias a las donaciones voluntarias de tiempo y dinero del pueblo de los Estados Unidos.
	www.redcross.org /article/0,1072,0_209_3984,00.html (866 words)

	Six dead, more missing in California landslide - World - www.theage.com.au
		Jimmie Wallet (R), is comforted as he returns to the area of a massive landslide in La Conchita, California.
		Officials said three men, one woman and two other people were confirmed dead in the slide that hit the seaside community of La Conchita, a slip of land between the Pacific Ocean and steep hills south of Santa Barbara.
		One distraught man who had been digging by hand yesterday in a bid to find his wife and three young daughters amid what remained of their home tried to return to the search area today but was stopped by police.
	www.theage.com.au /news/World/Six-dead-more-missing-in-California-landslide/2005/01/12/1105423559275.html?from=moreStories (748 words)

	La Conchita Memorials, Fundraisers and Discussion Forum (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		La Conchita families have lost family members and all of their possessions.
		All proceeds are to be given to the Victims of La Conchita Fund.
		LilyWater is hosting one final fundraiser for those affected by the La Conchita mudslide at Nicholby's in downtown Ventura Sunday, March 6 from 4 p.m.
	www.santabarbara.com.cob-web.org:8888 /Victims-of-La-Conchita (1956 words)

	USGS Release: USGS Releases Report on Landslide Hazards at La Conchita, California (2/18/2005)
		The USGS just released a report on the landslide hazards at La Conchita, the California coastal community in Ventura County that was struck by a landslide on Jan. 10 that killed 10 people and destroyed or damaged 36 houses.
		The report concludes that not only has La Conchita already recently experienced two significant landslides (January 2005 and March 1995), but it is likely to experience an array of landslide hazards during future periods of prolonged or intense rainfall.
		The report summarizes information about USGS and CGS field observations, landslide history of La Conchita, a comparison of the 1995 and the 2005 landslides, and a discussion of continuing landslide hazards in the La Conchita area.
	www.usgs.gov /newsroom/article.asp?ID=676 (369 words)

	BBC Mundo \| Internacional \| EE.UU.: alud en California (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Las autoridades del condado de Ventura, donde está localizada la población donde ocurrió el desprendimiento, indicaron que ignoran cuántas personas se encontraban en las viviendas cuando se produjo la avalancha de tierra y lodo.
		La ciudad de Los Ángeles ha estado bajo una fuerte lluvia desde el jueves pasado, y en sólo los primeros nueve días del año ha recibido unos 400 litros por metro cuadrado, lo que equivale al promedio anual de precipitación en el centro de la ciudad.
		Ante las lluvias y las tormentas de nieve que se suman, las autoridades ordenaron la cancelación de servicio de trenes.
	news.bbc.co.uk /hi/spanish/international/newsid_4163000/4163731.stm (324 words)

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