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Latest landslide adds to ‘unprecedented’ damage along scenic Highway 1 in Big Sur area

Some longtime residents of Big Sur figured nature hadn’t finished with them this year. Over the weekend, they were proved right.

With a loud boom and a cloud of dust, part of a mountainside slid into the Pacific Ocean on Saturday night, swallowing roughly a third of a mile of Highway 1 and rearranging some more of Big Sur’s dramatic coastline.

Aerial photos and video of the massive landslide show a huge tongue of earth reaching into the sea in the Mud Creek area of southern Big Sur.

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