{"id":595450,"date":"2026-09-09T23:14:20","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T23:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/595450\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T23:14:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T23:14:20","slug":"evacuations-in-malibu-after-waves-open-sinkhole-at-nicolas-cages-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/595450\/","title":{"rendered":"Evacuations in Malibu after waves open sinkhole at Nicolas Cage\u2019s house"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"eYVVqkRVmn\" style=\"display:none\">Malibu city officials issued an evacuation order affecting dozens of homes in some of the most sought-after real estate in Southern California.<\/p>\n<p class=\"eYVVqkRVmn\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThe Director of Emergency Services of the City of Malibu has declared the existence of a local emergency following a large sinkhole forming near 31630 Sea Level Drive,\u201d an announcement said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"eYVVqkRVmn\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cAn evacuation order is in effect for all affected properties. Sheriff Deputies have notified residents in person, and a digital alert has been issued by the City.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 Nicolas Cage woke up to find Malibu trying to steal his house.<\/p>\n<p>A sinkhole started opening outside his home; Neighbors thought, eh, probably fixable.<\/p>\n<p>Then all hell broke loose.<\/p>\n<p>By yesterday, the driveway had basically rage-quit and collapsed into a 30-by-30-foot crater.\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/S67f7E8CXQ\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/S67f7E8CXQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MarioNawfal\/status\/2097744343050444992?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">September 9, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"eYVVqkRVmn\" style=\"display:none\">South of Los Angeles, truckloads of boulders had been placed along a stretch of beach in Dana Point to protect properties in a spot where seven homes have already been declared uninhabitable, with one partially collapsing into the sea.<\/p>\n<p class=\"eYVVqkRVmn\" style=\"display:none\">Richard Thompson, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service, told AFP on Tuesday that coastal waters were being roiled by the remnants of Hurricane Marie.<\/p>\n<p class=\"eYVVqkRVmn\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThere were some pretty significant surf and swells across the area in the last several days,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"eYVVqkRVmn\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cAt the height of the surf and swell, we had some very significant wave heights of 10 up to 15 feet [3.0-4.5 metres] in some spots, with significant beach erosion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"eYVVqkRVmn\" style=\"display:none\">This week Hurricane Lowell lashed Hawaii with damaging winds, heavy rainfall and powerful floods, blacking out power across most of one island.<\/p>\n<p class=\"eYVVqkRVmn\" style=\"display:none\">A near-record-strength El Nino climate episode is warming the waters of the Pacific Ocean and promoting the formation of powerful storms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"eYVVqkRVmn\" style=\"display:none\">While the warming phase is a natural phenomenon, scientists believe the human-caused heating of the climate could make its effects much larger.<\/p>\n<p class=\"eYVVqkRVmn\" style=\"display:none\">&#8211; AFP<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Malibu city officials issued an evacuation order affecting dozens of homes in some of the most sought-after real&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":595451,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3376,74,1975,79564,34555,222624,142315,9191,6383,156,1549,50924,13313,1345,10053,78,4188,153421,111,139,95231,69,5493,1864,29691,57230,384,36655,11584,8238,23498,13745,1680,3608],"class_list":["post-595450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-actor","tag-after","tag-at","tag-beachfront","tag-belonging","tag-cage","tag-cages","tag-coastal","tag-driveway","tag-entertainment","tag-evacuation","tag-evacuations","tag-giant","tag-home","tag-house","tag-in","tag-living","tag-malibu","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nicolas","tag-nz","tag-open","tag-opened","tag-order","tag-oscarwinning","tag-people","tag-sinkhole","tag-stretch","tag-under","tag-upmarket","tag-waves","tag-wednesday","tag-were"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=595450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/595451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}