{"id":40216,"date":"2011-10-09T13:30:19","date_gmt":"2011-10-09T13:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/cornwall-cliff-collapse-caught-on-video-bad-astronomy\/"},"modified":"2011-10-09T13:30:19","modified_gmt":"2011-10-09T13:30:19","slug":"cornwall-cliff-collapse-caught-on-video-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/cornwall-cliff-collapse-caught-on-video-bad-astronomy.php","title":{"rendered":"Cornwall cliff collapse caught on video | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m fascinated by some geological events, including landslides. They happen so rapidly it’s rare to get them on video, but a lucky couple in Cornwall, UK*<\/a><\/sup>, were at the right place at just<\/em> the right time, and caught this amazing footage<\/a> of several thousand tons of rocks letting go off a cliff face:<\/p>

Wow! At 12 seconds in, though you can’t see any rock movement, there is a crack in the cliff where debris is getting forced out, falling in a plume. The crack widens, and then WHOOSH!<\/p>

This was pretty small as slides go (some are longer and move far more slowly<\/a>). Some are huge, and if they fall into water can cause very, very large tsunamis; for a fun sleep full of nightmares, read up on the Lituya Bay landslide and megatsunami of 1958<\/a>. Happily, this one in England was far too small to do that sort of thing.<\/p>

Did you know we see evidence of landslides on Mars and the Moon as well? See the Related posts<\/em> below, including a couple of shots of avalanches on Mars caught in the act!<\/p>

And as for the Cornwall slide, I would love<\/em> to see something like that in person some day… from a nice safe distance. Yowza.<\/p>

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*<\/sup> By coincidence, I just happened to write about Cornwall a few days ago<\/a>, but that scene was somewhat more bucolic.<\/em><\/p>

Related posts:<\/p>

- Another dose of Martian awesome<\/a>
- Martian avalanche crashes the party<\/a>
- Landslide on Mars triggered by an impact<\/a>
- BREAKING: Martian avalanche caught in the act!<\/a>
- LRO sees a Moonslide<\/a><\/p>

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