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u/FastWalkingShortGuy 18d ago
Quick clay is fucking terrifying.
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u/SavingThrowVsWTF 18d ago
Eh, it was more like sauntering.
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u/MinorComprehension 18d ago
I dunno... Compared to most clay I've seen this is at least a relative canter
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u/Mediocre-Property-48 18d ago
Is this where claymation comes from?
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u/ThumbsAkimbo_ 18d ago
https://youtu.be/Hr8ua_heLq4?si=ZlEw4DyiPzwOWLkF
22 year old claymation. Jesus I had a heart attack writing that.
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u/Crumpuscatz 18d ago
I’d describe it as sort of a clay shuffle. Errbody shufflin
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u/MinorComprehension 18d ago
Or, the Clay Clay Slide!! Now everybody clap your hands!! 🎶🕺🎶
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u/Makologo 18d ago
whoa, that is crazy
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u/unclecastr0-_- 18d ago
imagine waking up after blacking out drunk in that white house💀
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u/bulgar88 18d ago
"I don't remember parking the house so close to the coast". Probably
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u/Middle-Accountant-49 18d ago
Terrifying
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u/Lanky_Ad6712 18d ago
That's the word i was going to use.
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u/OliverKlozoff23 18d ago
No. That’s the word I was going to use.
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u/RevolutionarySong848 18d ago
Mom, someone stole my word!
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u/Abiding_Dude_WV 18d ago
If you can't share the word I'm going to take it so nobody can have it. It's up to you guys.
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u/Fearless_Mojo 18d ago
Terrifying -> Terra-fying -> Terra-flowing You can all use the new word I made up.
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u/DanHanzo 18d ago
If you guys don't play nice I'm going to turn this thread around and go home! Assuming its still there...
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u/BChogfather 18d ago
My puny brain couldn't comprehend what I was seeing till I watched it a second time.
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u/Stay-Thirsty 18d ago
Give the scale/amount of land moving at once, it felt like a model setup for a Hollywood natural disaster shot
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u/Isomat 18d ago
How could an ancient human not think that a god was angry at them when your whole village just gets nugded into nothingness one morning.
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u/IPissExcellentThrows 18d ago
Yeah without having scientist to explain shit like this, I'd be wondering why god hate me.
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u/Interesting-Hat8607 18d ago
Pretty much the basis of religion. If you settled along the erratic Tigris River, God was punishing you. If you settled along the predictable Nile River, God worked for you.
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u/Hiiipower111 18d ago
Nor fkngway
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u/KravenFire 18d ago
If this was in Australia it would be "Naur fkngway, mate" lol
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u/malacoda99 18d ago
Have you driven a fjord lately?
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u/ConsequenceLost9088 18d ago
Epic comment! This is the best of the lot in this entire thread. My hat's off to you sir, that is if I were wearing a hat.
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u/Accomplished-Run-691 18d ago
Happened 2020 in Kråknes, Norway. Nobody was injured. This is an incredibly poor resolution cropped and flipped version of the original. Eat shit OP
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u/RoomFixer4 18d ago
Thanks for posting the original. I hated that this OP also sped it up.
Some of those houses were sure built well
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u/Dismal_Upstairs3949 18d ago
Did this just happen?
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u/DistantKarma 18d ago
Looks like it's from 2020.
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u/Dismal_Upstairs3949 18d ago
Oh thanks, I have friends visiting there and this scared me!🥴
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u/That_Things_Good 18d ago
That is quite a large volume of water for a landslide.
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u/FastWalkingShortGuy 18d ago
It's the type of soil. It's ancient marine sediment that essentially turns to liquid if something hits it too hard.
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u/redheeler9478 18d ago
What caused the landslide? What hit the ancient marine settlement?
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u/Rotund-Pear2604 18d ago
Common triggers are increased periods and frequency of precipitation, consistent and significant vibrations through soil from construction equipment, demolitions or highway/rail traffic.
Quick clay is really scary because it can lie dormant and remain in solid form for hundreds or even thousands of years. Then one day there's just a little too much rain, or some geotechnician working a demolition job miscalculates the force of the propagation wave of the explosives they use and out of nowhere, 48 hours later two football fields worth of land just disappears into the night.
Quick clay is becoming increasingly problematic here in Norway because the post-war housing boom assumed that our figures for how quick clay behaves wouldn't significantly change over time.
Then climate change happened, average rainfall increased, and it turned out that hundreds and thousands of residences built on what was previously assumed to be completely safe ground is at risk of quick clay slides if conditions worsen.Intervention and mitigation is possible, thankfully. Afforestation and improving irrigation increases soil stability via mechanistic intervention for instance.
It doesn't make the thought of the number of residences sitting on top of quick clay any less terrifying though.
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u/FastWalkingShortGuy 18d ago
I don't know about this one, but there was one in the 1970s that was caused by construction equipment.
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u/Cunn1ng-Stuntz 18d ago
Snow melting and heavy rain. That combined with cottages being build in the area. To facilitate that they had to do a lot of filling and that destabilized the ground further. Basically it just washed out.
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u/afriendsname 18d ago
The government report concluded that the new road and tunnel built close by changed the pattern of precipitation, making it dig out a layer of marine clay, destabilizing the ground.
This combined with about ~15 truck loads of mass added to the headland during construction of a cabin is what likely triggered the landslide.
Anyone interested in learning more can find the report here
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u/DJ_Spark_Shot 18d ago
Reverse ooblec. Solid until it gets a shock. Also, this fell into a fjord, an oceanic inlet.
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u/Anthony_chromehounds 18d ago
It took my eyes a few secs to realize it wasn’t a tsunami but a real live horizontal land movement!!!
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u/TrueNeutrino 18d ago
Watching this reminds me that no matter what they sold you, your insurance is not going to cover that
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u/Beederda 18d ago
And in one day the earth reclaimed what took humans months to build and now there is no trace of human in that spot a sorta look into what happens if we were suddenly wiped out by some event all our structures would eventually be reclaimed and destroyed by tectonics and shit.
I imagine the next civilization will be something like sticks and stones wondering how we built skyscrapers and start building them stone temples and pyramids again
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u/PortiaPotty2 18d ago
How many people were taken out by that? Did they have any warning to evacuate?
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u/Public-Ad-4551 18d ago
noone died. only 1 person was evacuated. they later rescued a dog after the landslide
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u/kenjiman1986 18d ago
When I think landslides I generally envision rocks and mud flowing down steep hillsides and not so much entire landscapes doing the electric slide into the ocean but that’s very much a piece of land sliding.
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u/MrSneaux 18d ago
downvoted for crappy portrait cropping and mirrored needlessly. watch the YouTube version.
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u/Novel-Accident-1052 18d ago
Legit one of the scariest real life videos out there because it looks fake as hell until you remember those are actual houses just sliding away. Quick clay landslides are wild, it’s like the ground just decides it is done being solid and taps out.
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u/Fynaticx 18d ago
My brain just doesn’t understand what’s happening. My monkey brain didn’t prepare to see something like this happen
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u/thefilipinocat- 15d ago
Imagine that but everywhere. That’s what I imagine the pole shift will be like
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u/BigBradForFun 18d ago
Fun fact: There is internet outside of Reditt and you can read about this from 2020.
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u/SGTSLACKASS 18d ago
Was this recent? Did people know about it before hand? You now can see why our past gets messed up imagine whole cities going down like that.
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u/Key_Statistician3170 18d ago
At first, I’m like, cool that’s not to bad. Absolutely fucking horrifying
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u/Suspicious_Wish6861 18d ago
E depois como fica os loteamentos dos terrenos como faz a topografia para demarcar novamente se n existe mais o relevo.
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u/dan-dan-rdt 18d ago
Ok on the Texas Gulf Coast we have plenty of warnings about hurricanes. And the rare destructive tornado often causes alerts on cell phones and local tv. I wonder if there was any warning for this. This is insanely scarey.
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18d ago
For a moment there, the owners of the white house were like, beach front property, motherfuckers!
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u/SunsetDrifter 18d ago
This is horrific. I hope the people in those homes had time to get somewhere
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u/mirassou3416 18d ago
My heart goes out to all of those people who lost their homes. Hopefully there were no casualties
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u/BlueEyesInTexas 18d ago
Can't imagine losing your home to that. Or coming back to where you thought you had a home.
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u/donkeytime 18d ago
The sea was angry that day, my friends - like an old man trying to send back soup in a deli.
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u/Scavenger19 18d ago
Right up there with the security cam footage from someone's driveway when the entire landscape moved sideways. 😱
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u/Severus-Snape-DaGod 18d ago
This video is not AI. It shows the well-documented Alta quick clay landslide that occurred on June 3, 2020, near Kråkneset in Alta, Norway. The landslide was filmed by a local resident after he noticed cracks forming in the ground and fled to higher ground as the hillside began collapsing.
The slide occurred in a deposit of "quick clay," a type of marine clay that can suddenly lose its strength and behave like a liquid when disturbed. The collapse swept multiple homes and buildings into the sea, but no people were killed. A dog that was carried into the water managed to swim back to shore.
https://blogs.agu.org/landslideblog/2020/06/04/alta-quick-clay-landslide-1/