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Christmas night’s rainfall has some neighbors worried about the Encinitas bluffs’ eroding more.

Geologist and local earthquake expert Pat Abott discusses earthquake risks in our area with NBC 7’s Monica Dean.

North County bluffs are eroding by the minute weeks after a collapse in Leucadia killed three people.

It was a funeral for ice. With poetry, moments of silence and political speeches about the urgent need to fight climate change, Icelandic officials, activists and others bade goodbye to what once was a glacier. Icelandic geologist Oddur Sigurðsson pronounced the Okjokull glacier extinct about a decade ago. But on Sunday he brought a death certificate to the made-for-media memorial....

Pat Abbott, Ph.D., in Geology and Professor Emeritus of Geology at San Diego State University (SDSU) said we can expect more bluff collapses. NBC 7’s Ramon Galindo has more.

Students at Garrison Elementary School in Oceanside will begin their school year at a different campus while crews work to repair a pair of sinkholes at the campus.

With the school year beginning in only three weeks, hundreds of kids in Oceanside may not have a school to go after two sinkholes have appeared. The school district is searching for why the sinkholes have appeared and how to deal with the problem. NBC 7’s Joe Little has the details.

There are two sinkholes on the campus of an Oceanside elementary school and the district said Tuesday it is not willing to put staff and students on campus if they don’t know why some sections of ground are sinking.

The shaking for the 6.4 earthquake centered in Ridgecrest was felt in San Diego by people in downtown highrises. NBC 7’s Erika Cervantes has more.

San Diego police are trying to find the people who turned a cave along Sunset Cliffs into a living space complete with curtains, three beds and art on the wall.

After people illegally took over a Sunset Cliff cave, residents began to complain about the squatters. NBC 7’s Alex Presha has more on the city’s reaction.

Israeli researchers said Thursday they have surveyed what they now believe to be the world’s longest salt cave, a network of twisting passageways at the southern tip of the Dead Sea. A recently completed survey of the Malham Cave determined the labyrinthine cavern stretches more than 10 kilometers (6 miles) in length. That puts it well ahead of Iran’s Namakdan...

Train commuters were experiencing delays Monday due to a bluff collapse in Del Mar, the latest in a series of collapses near the tracks this month.

Residents are worried the collapse will block their access to the beach. NBC 7’s Erika Cervantes has more.

Another bluff collapse in Del Mar has residents there worried they might lose access to a popular beach.

Three bluff collapse incidents in Del Mar in the last month and a half, all within three blocks of each other, have people worried about when it will happen next.

There are warning signs atop the cliff for good reason. NBC 7’s Ashley Matthews explains.

The death toll has grown to more than 1,200 following the catastrophic 7.5 magnitude earthquake and tsunami that hit Indonesia’s central island of Sulawesi on Sept. 28. About 62,000 people have been displaced with fuel and food running out in the aftermath of the natural disasters, which come less than two months since another earthquake struck Lombok Island. Click through...

Coaster and Amtrak trains were delayed Wednesday afternoon after a reported cliff collapse between Del Mar and Solana Beach forced the tracks to close for a period of time, according to North County Transit.

By Thursday, engineers ordered restricted speeds so trains moved slower in the area.