5 Massive Landslides Caught On Camera

if there is one thing in this world it would seem you could trust it would be the ground beneath your feet lightning hail and other natural disasters come from above but what you're standing on will always support you right well if you ever find yourself in the wrong place at the wrong time then you just might find yourself victim to a tremendous landslide whether it's caused by an earthquake or soil erosion landslides happen all over the globe sometimes they happen in remote areas far away from any people other times it's a real shame someone decided to set up shop on that specific part of land from a highway in japan to houses being swept into the ocean here are five massive landslides caught on camera one of the scariest things about landslides is that they usually happen without warning but on very rare occasions warning signs do appear indicating that disaster is on the horizon along a stretch of highway near the city of otto japan engineers noticed that there were cracks forming in the roadway over the course of a few weeks the cracks would get a little bigger as this section of road was built on the side of a steep mountain engineers knew that this could be a warning sign that the ground below it was breaking free and starting to slide these things were noticed in february of 2004 and it was enough to cause the closure of the entire road movements were monitored by extensor meters and the data showed that the ground was surely creeping in a downward motion inch by inch cameras were also set up by the government to monitor the area finally on august 10th of that year the stress became too much and the entire side of the mountain broke free [Music] as you can see in the video thousands of cubic meters of earth tumbled down the side of the mountain dragging trees along with it in one of the craziest natural disasters we've ever seen it is believed that the rainfall of a typhoon that struck earlier in the year saturated the ground so much that the soil nearly turned to liquid itself thanks to the watchful eye of engineers and scientists the area had been evacuated many months before this landslide so there were no casualties or injuries of any kind believe it or not landslides are actually a very common occurrence throughout the world but have you ever stopped to ask yourselves why you've not heard much more about them if they're so common it would probably be bigger news right in actuality many of these landslides happen in the most remote parts of the world where no one is there to witness them luckily for one humanitarian worker he was able to capture a number of these landslides on camera while walking through a remote section of land in nepal the hiker was filming when suddenly a major earthquake rocked the area he was obviously a little panicked when it happened but after he gained his composure his camera panned around to the mountain on the other side of the valley in multiple places on that mountain landslides can be seen in the video you can count around 8 to 12 separate slides of varying sizes he's even able to show a path that they were walking only 20 minutes prior that was nearly crushed from the debris i'm okay i'm okay stay here major earthquake holy crap oh my god look at that we're okay i was hiding behind this rock right here holy crap i'm shaking i'm okay i'm okay just relax wait look at that look at all the landslides that were triggered nepal is a very geologically active region as far as earthquakes are concerned but it is also a sparsely populated area so these landslides often go relatively unnoticed and unreported luckily for this man he not only captured an incredible moment on film but survived to tell the tale there are so many factors that can contribute to a landslide sometimes rains saturate the soil of mountains causing massive chunks of them to break free from the site other times they can be triggered by powerful earthquakes however this video documents a totally different landslide that was not caused by either of these factors it was caused by a phenomenon known as quick clay and it is this that led to hundreds of square feet of land in norway to slip into the sea a man named jan eagle buckaby who filmed the landslide described the event i had just made two sandwiches when i heard creaking at first i thought there was someone in the attic but then i looked out the window and saw the power lines ripping and the ground moving he watched helplessly as the ground started moving towards the sea carrying everything on the land with it eventually once it reached the sea the ground sunk beneath the surface along with trees and power lines there were about eight structures as well all of which were left floating freely on the surface of the water luckily there was no one killed or even injured only one dog was on the land when it gave way and he was able to swim to safety so what is quick clay it is a type of clay that is very unstable so much so that if subjected to sufficient stress the very makeup of it takes on more of a liquid state than a solid quick clay is mainly found in countries closer to the arctic circle such as canada sweden finland and russia and account for many landslides each year one of the most powerful and destructive geological events in american history was the 1980 eruption of mount saint helens the blast from the eruption traveled at speeds of over 670 miles per hour ejecting millions upon millions of tons of ash and rock in the blink of an eye however geologists had warning signs about the impending eruption there were some minor earthquakes and gaseous expulsions from time to time but nothing was more telling than the huge bulge that formed on the mountain's north face over the course of a few months the incredible pressure from within the volcano was putting a ton of stress on the mountainside there was so much stress that the entire north face began to bulge this bulge measured about 270 feet high in march before the eruption for the rest of april and early may this bulge grew by five or six feet per day eventually by mid-may it extended more than 400 feet or 120 meters on may 18 1980 on the other side of the valley from the mountain a photographer had been shooting photos capturing the bulge in its entirety as he was shooting a magnitude 5.1 earthquake struck underneath the mountain it was the trigger needed to cause the mountain's bulge to fail what resulted was the largest landslide in history the total volume of the mountain that collapsed was 2.79 cubic kilometers that's the equivalent of one million one hundred and sixteen thousand olympic-sized swimming pools the sudden release of these massive sections of land are what really make landslides both incredible to watch yet deadly to experience it can catch people off guard and leave nowhere to shelter however there are rare occasions that landslides are slow moving and can last for quite a while this was the case on a stretch of highway just outside of yosemite national park during the spring of 2006 alongside a section of highway 140 a section of rock had broken off from the top of a huge cliff this is not an unusual occurrence however the soil underneath the rocks was very unstable and as it had been disturbed a chain reaction had started soon a few more rocks broke off then more then a few more now as you can see in the video these rocks weren't huge by any means but it is the gradual accumulation of rocks that made this slide spectacular in total this section of mountain continued to slowly collapse over the course of many days little by little the rocks would overtake the highway finally after nearly a week the rocks stopped falling and the soil was able to settle again road crews had to build temporary bridges around the disaster area while cleanup commenced eventually the road was reopened but this goes to show exactly how helpless people are to stop something like this even when it happens at an incredibly slow rate for those that live in the mountainous regions of the world landslides will always be a threat so many things can contribute to them so people simply have to stay on their guard closely monitoring the things around them only then can lives and property be saved to see another video just like this one be sure to click the link on screen now and with that thanks for watching and be sure to tune in next time

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Length: 11min 24sec (684 seconds)

Published: Thu Aug 05 2021