S. D. Ellen S. E. Graham Russell W. Graymer Monty A. Hampton John W. Hillhouse David G. Howell Angela S. Jayko R.L. LaHusen K.R. Lajoie R.J. Pike D.W. Ramsey M.E. Reid B. M. Richmond W. Z. Savage Carl Wentworth R. C. Wilson S.H. Cannon 1998 <p>Surface processes accelerated by severe storms during the 1997–1998 El Niño event scoured hillsides and damaged property across coastal California. Technological advances such as digital mapping, exemplified here for the San Francisco Bay area but applicable elsewhere, have enabled government agencies to better describe, monitor, and predict the effects of shoreline erosion and slope failure.</p> application/pdf en GSA Slope failure and shoreline retreat during northern California's latest El Nino article