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Landscape change associated with the upper Scenic Drive landslide, La Honda, California, January 10–June 28, 2017

June 25, 2019

La Honda, California, is a small town in unincorporated San Mateo County, located on the west edge of the San Francisco Peninsula in the Santa Cruz Mountains, between San Francisco and San Jose. The Scenic Drive area of La Honda has experienced several past episodes of landslide motion, which were documented in 1998, 2005, and 2006. This report documents the movement of the upper Scenic Drive landslide that occurred between January 10 and June 28, 2017. Our mapping provides a snapshot of the 2017 upper Scenic Drive landslide, as imaged from high-resolution terrestrial laser scanner (TLS) survey data (also referred to as terrestrial lidar) that we collected January 27–28, 2017; we mapped the landforms associated with the 2017 upper Scenic Drive landslide motion using a bare-earth TLS shaded-relief base map, in addition to field observations. Our mapping is supplemented by photographs of the mapped landforms, which were taken between January 11 and 31, 2017; these photographs illustrate the development of selected landslide features. The purpose of this report is to make available the maps constructed from three-dimensional TLS data and the photographs that show the landslide morphology of the 2017 upper Scenic Drive landslide. The scope of this report is limited to the motion of the upper Scenic Drive landslide that occurred between January 10 and June 28, 2017.

Publication Year 2019
Title Landscape change associated with the upper Scenic Drive landslide, La Honda, California, January 10–June 28, 2017
DOI 10.3133/ofr20191024
Authors Alexandra J. Pickering, Carol S. Prentice, Stephen B. DeLong
Publication Type Report
Publication Subtype USGS Numbered Series
Series Title Open-File Report
Series Number 2019-1024
Index ID ofr20191024
Record Source USGS Publications Warehouse
USGS Organization Earthquake Science Center