North Cliffs Failure - Amazing Cliff Collapse caught on Camera!
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- Опубликовано: 2 окт 2011
- Active Coastal Erosion in Cornwall. See 'North Cliffs 3hrs Later' video on my channel also. Very lucky to witness 1000's of tonnes of rock falling into the Atlantic!
Thanks for all of your positive comments, sorry I can't reply to them all individually. Hopefully I can answer most of the FAQ's now....
The failure occurred at about 5pm on Friday 23rd September 2011. It took place on the North Coast of Cornwall. There were only a few people watching, with about the same number of inquisitive seals in the water! There were lots of 'small' failures just before the main event. This appears to be a progressive failure, the frequency and size of the smaller failures increased until the inevitable happened. The sound was incredible, those cliffs are about 150-200ft high. I'd been chatting to the couple mentioned in the clip only a few minutes before the footage was taken. They can just be seen walking away in the distance; the path had been fenced off and diverted, so they were quite safe. An amazing sight, and credit to R who took the video, I still can't stop revisiting it! Thanks again for all the comments, who says Geology isn't an exciting subject?!. Oh, & finally..... I'm happy to report that no seals or humans were hurt in the filming of this clip! ACSM(93) 
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"Look dear, just like the one we're standing on . . ."
My thought exactly...
Mine too
Omg😂
After the scream, you'd be tempted to push her off...
I would be scared that such a large event might trigger the other side to do it
If there was no woman there to scream, would the cliff still have collapsed?
The mainstream media was trying to pay the cliff for holding it together.
John DeLuca very good
it was the sound waves from her larynx that caused the cliff to fall
If the cliff didn’t collapse, would the woman scream?
sounds like that woman in the background had an orgasm over seeing that big cliff let loose lol .
My respect to the camera person for being able to hold the camera steady and pointed at the action the entire time.
They seem to be expecting the collapse , like it was a planned demolition .
right,11 years ago with a shitty camera👍
Especially with a bit*h who yells in his ears
@@votpavel Bet you're fun at parties. SMH
That man sounded just like a woman when he screamed. 😅
I've worked near here at hartland point, constructing some of the defence barriers by the lighthouse. We were also rescuing some of the massive concrete blocks that had been smashed by falling rocks. I've never been more nervous in a job in my life and my job is pretty risky
You should give roller coaster construction a try. It's pretty intimidating in the winter when your body gets too cold to function properly and your a hundred meters up.
@@darthvader5532
As a union ironworker been there done that, and yea they seem to get built in the winter.
Did a water ride to.
WHoTheHell sent live bodies down there to collect concrete barriers?!!! Like a helmet, steel toes, and good gloves would help in case of another falling boulder or a full collapse! geeez
@@darthvader5532 It's not a competition, man.
@@dukecraig2402 oh nice! It's fun work but the wear and tear takes a toll. I've never had the opportunity to do any water slides but I always wanted to, especially the newer ones with the sun lighting effects.
Just as it starts to happen, the video should end with a sign saying "To be continued next week "
Then it would be a cliffhanger.
😂😂😂
Or one of those bloody adverts popped into place....
Ba-dum-TSSS!!
🤣🤣😂
Seen what you did there, I have
When a cliff collapses into the ocean, it sound just like a woman screaming.
ruclips.net/video/y1cC4KWFKuE/видео.html ,..
😂
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
monty python was right.
Oh maannnn 😂😂😂😂
It's been a decade. Has anyone gone back and videoed what it looks like now? The ocean waves would have eroded all the loose material at the base, but what about the loose material higher up? And/or has any other part of the cliff collapsed?
idk
it's disappeared completely. Now it's an Octopus Pub.
@@TonyEnglandUK Garden?
The cliffs are quite unstable there. Whole sides complete with footpaths disappear unrecorded.
@@JTD472 LOVE the Beatles!!!!
MUCH bigger than I thought it would be 😳
Great catch !!!
Two million years and I will have ocean front property.
Kim Koch your beard might spoil the entire view by then.
Lemme guess, you live in St. Levan?
Yeah hahaha
Andreas Delleske jajajajja
And then, you won't
Man: calmy says "there it goes"
Woman: "WOOOOIIIIIIIHHAAAAA...OH MY.... AAAAERRRRRRRR"
Man calmy anounces " there comes the scream"
Nah but we’re all the same !!!
And there supposed to be equal to us!
Was annoying to hear
HAHAHAHAHA;D
Always amazes me that people walk along beaches close to the bottom of cliffs. If you grow up in such areas you never do that as you have seen these rockfalls so much. People are injured and killed quite regularly along coasts like North Yorkshire because they ignore this. The video is a reminder of how unstable eroded cliffs are.
"as you have seen rockfalls so much...blah...killed quite regularly..."
errr, I don't think so.
@@robertsemple299 sadly there are regular rockfalls on that coast and people have been killed, a recent example was the sad death of a 9 yr old child playing at the foot of the cliffs at Staithes.
THANK YOU for holding your camera steady when the action started! Too many videos start off steady, but when the even happens, they are suddenly waving their camera around, so that it’s just a blur. I can understand if you’re getting out of the way of something, but if you’re expecting it and you still move the camera?
About 4 decades ago I was on holiday in Cornwall. Every morning I walked my Irish Wolfhound on the cliff path. At the start of my second week about 50 yards of the cliff path vanished. All that remained was the farmers barbwire fence stretching across a chasm for about 50 yards. It could have been a case of wrong place at the wrong time! Maybe my dog was heavier than I thought!
Haaaaaaaaa. Funny. Glad you weren't walking your pooch that day... lol
Maybe you are!
The way that person yelled out so loudly and freaked out I thought they just HAD TO BE AMERICANS, lol !! 😳😂😂
Wow! That is crazy!
Couple of years back we had a big cliff fall. 200metres of road was gone and what was amazing; it happened between 3-5am so nobody was on the road when it happened. So lucky!!!
The first person leaving their house at 5am had a real surprise.
such a "Rob" story
Although this has been happening for millions of years for someone to capture it on vid is amazing !
too bad that screamer was standing on the wrong cliff.
ahaha well said.
Omfg
Ikrrr
She's literally acting like the cliff side is going to reach out and attack her or something smh
Earth is six thousand years old.
Rob Appleby wake up
@@yourlocalmemedealer2543 technically speaking mr Appleby is correct, it is 6000 yrs old.
It's also 7000, 8000, 9000, 1 billion, 2 billion yrs old.
Amazing how fragmented the stone was at the fracture point. I anticipated much larger pieces.
Powder!! Shocking.
What a beautiful spot for a home. Great view, fresh sea air, wonderful…oh crap…never mind.
I can never understand girl screaming while they're on the safe distance from natural occasions like this
It's excitement, not fear.
We all need attention and validation of some sorts. Some get it by accomplishments, problems solving, or having wisdom, etc. Others find it easier just to be melodramatic or hysterical. It is quick and easy.
@@kimhesketh2016 While I loathe the selfie-taking mindset as much as the next sane person: Speaking for myself, screaming is an involuntary response. I am shy, middle of introvert-extrovert spectrum, HATE attention, but scream like a maniac when surprised/scared/excited. I couldn't NOT do it if I tried. Bonus: I used to get my ride tickets handed back to me when I got OFF the rides at the exhibition. So there's that! edited to add: Oh crap, if you're a psychologist I can hear it already. Ah, so, it was a conditioned response formed by positive reinforcement....
Well, how else can she draw attention to herself during a cliff collapse?
Not a safe distance in geologic terms...rock big.
Just imagine if someone was on the other side looking back and noticing their cracking too...
*theirs
Normally I wouldn’t correct but it was hard to understand lol
I would be so fucking scared 🤣
@@BestKCL you bring anything els to the table here other than just being annoying?
@@thanosbustedinyourmum else
@@Kennypowers51 els
Nice capture. Thank you for posting!
Realtor’s’ advertisement: “waterfront property, active, exciting neighborhood. These lots are moving fast.”
I’d love to go through that rock pile to see what’s in it! Lots of artifacts probably and fossils and maybe some cool rocks!
Your weight would bring the rest of it down.
I agree... that would be fun to sift through the rubble. :)
Why is she screaming? Everyone is safe. I agree with whoever said time to explore the rubble
@@hopeandgracetompkins3707 excitement, that's the reason
Probably the last guy that thought the same thing.
“Quite beautiful that”
most british reaction
No he's a geoligist and he actually said I'm please I caught that.
@@LindaTCornwall No the fuck he didn't.
@@nuiharime3410 he said... can go on Facebook , that!
Excuse me, but I am an American, well versed and studied at understanding all 150 different British dialects, and he actually said 'peaceful'!
Your classic horseshoe shape.
Land's struggle against the sea. The sea always wins the battle. Awesome video.
loved your explanation. it helped with so many questions.
Am now stuck in an endless loop of watching things being pulled downwards by gravity, internet sure is something
Is gravity getting you down ?
How long has your profile picture been that
Behold Gravity in all its Glory ! as Milhouse would say.
Soon there will be no land, it will all go into the sea plus sea level rising. Then what?
@@hiloviking Never mind. Land is massively overrated anyway.
What the hell is she screaming about? Talk about ruining an incredible moment.
phapnui LOL yeah something like that
I don't know maybe the f****** cliff collapsing, I'll yell when I see something cool it's natural the men were also saying things but you're not annoyed by your own voice or at least the voice you'll get after you hit puberty
She was probably having flashbacks from watching all those scary Roadrunner cartoons when she was a kid. This kind of thing happened to Wile E. Coyote all the time.
I never understand why woman always scream for almost anything
Didn't you know...right at that moment someone ripped her panties off...
you guys are so cool and this is a once in a lifetime experience i am so jealous
Wow! It looked like that was all solid granite before! Didn't look like it was that loose! Wow that's amazing!
Many years ago on hwy 1 just south of Big Sur CA. I stopped to admire the scenery and a huge cliff face toppled over into the sea. And closed down the road ahead. This created about a 120 mile detour in my trip. But it was worth seeing. I Read latter that the road remained closed for over 6 weeks.
Filming a collapsing cliff, standing on a cliff just like it.
Glad I'm not the only one had that thought . . . right on the edge of the cliff too as that lot fell and let off a shockwave through the base of what they are stood on . . .
my first thought too! I would have watched while backing out of there fast!
Darwin Award.
Human Logic.......
Erik Hägglund
My thought, exactly!
Northern Cliffs: These cliffs have been here for thousands of years!!
Also Northern Cliffs: Alright, Imma head out
Your Empire becomes smaller and smaller each year.
Greetings from Germany.
Shameful! I doubt the ocean even filed an Environmental Impact Statement! 😁
Kudos to camera guy for giving us a steady view!
Proud to be 👍 #100!
if only the woman could shut F up
People are not part of nature, therefore, they should always be at a delicate distance from it, and actively protect from their influence or their relatives.
Makes a change from something being filmed in portrait view
Yeah l wondered about environmental and planning approvals too🌊🤣
"Aw yeah, that was awesome. Wait, aren't we standing on a cliff just like that one?"
very high quality, very smart idea to stand on a collapsing cliff, to record it collapsing, I love it
Never ceases to amaze me that someone always has to scream or narrate whats about to happen.
i've never heard a screaming landslide before............
Well now you have , how did it make you feel? It made me furious and I killed too many to count after that! Triggered!
LMFAO 😂
@@jaguar123987x dude, you too?
Damn good thing she wasn't around when Mt St. Helens blew, they'da heard her in LA.
Bugger! That's just what we need..a smaller country!
Brexit
Suckers
We're sitting pretty on a active volcano here in Hawaii
You never should have given us up
Ian Brown do you mean Brexit?
Does Al Gore know about these contributing factors to sea level rise. Somebody should spend billions of dollars to stop it. But wait until I can buy a bulldozer so I can get rich too.
I can't imagine the underwater impact on the ocean. Lots of buried creatures that day! Fortunate that no one was killed.
This Millions of Years time lapse function on these cameras now a days is amazing!
Rare sight. Thanks for sharing
Love how these people stand near the edge of a fragile cliff chillfully watching another part of the same cliff collapsing to the beach below without a care.
The woman cared (judging by her volume).
Amazing to catch this on video. After millions of years just sitting there.
I'm glad he brought a 1990's webcam with him to record this.
WOW! That is fantastic, talk about right place at the right time. I've posted a video of the afermath 2 weeks later.
Nice bird over here
Now showing: When Earth is Angry
Did they know this was a possibility? Was that cliff area closed off or were there people there? Really curious!
Yeah what a coincidence !! He had been standing there 20 years waiting !
@Paul_Dinning Where did you post it? I was expecting to see your link???
Very well recorded! Amazing! It great that we can all carry a camera around in a phone to capture things we would normally never see. will share with geology friends.
True cameraman right here! Even with the screaming woman and the chaos, he still kept his frame solid the be whole time!
0:39 *Cliff violently collapses and crashing into the sea*
British guy filming: "Quite peaceful that"
Zoom in and there’s a cat sitting on the new cliff edge looking very proud of himself.
You must have some kind of zoom if you can see what sex it is. 🔎🤣🤣🤣🤣👍
If I zoom in all I'll see is a pixel.
next time leave her at home.
Joey Suggs yeah totally completely ruined it leave the adult screaming crying woman at home drop her off at the hospital
Nooooo kidding. She is perfectly safe but screams anyway.
🤣🤣
I'm no feminist but get over it guys.
*in the kitchen*
I'm surprised there wasn't someone on the very edge of the cliff taking a selfie.
Right place right time superb upload
i bet the last bird to land on that cliff before it fell is feeling quite big right now
Probably went on a diet.
@@aurtisanminer2827 just a day before another bird was telling him about how he needs to lose some weight it said it's fine
It’s about time that gave way...I’ve been waiting thousands of years for this!
"oh I'm pleased we caught that" most British sentence ever spoken in context.
A spate of freezing and thawing can lead to this kind of rockface cracking and sliding. And any vibrations, such as from a pump, generator or heavy traffic, will do a lot to get a nearby rockface or pit edge ready to crumble.
I was walking my dog under that. Fortunately I'd remembered to bring an umbrella. Saved my life.
Imagine recording a rare moment like this, and then the cliff that you are standing on also says goodbye to you...
Better to be on the top of the cliff than the bottom
Dunno why this just showed up in my suggested list, but now Imma head down a rabbit hole
The total luck you had filming that at exact right time. 👏 👏 👏
Kudos to the camera man, A once in a lifetime camera op, well filmed. Rare on RUclips
If I was standing on the edge of a cliff watching another cliff collapse, I might have second thoughts about my choice of geography.
LOL! You know it!
Holy Moley! That was a big fall!
Erosion is not a failure. Its a successful transformation of material.
You know after the spray and dust from the collapsing cliff had settled the guy should have turned to the squealing woman and said "We're standing on a cliff very similar to the one we just saw crumble."
I was on a ferry sailing to Cork in Ireland on the night when a hurricane was battering the British Isles. The ship was swaying from side to side so much we would have been thrown off our bunks so we sat on the floor with our feet braced against the opposite wall. My 'helpful' friend chose that moment to point out that we were on the same type of ferry as had sank at Zeebrugge!
All the wind blowing on the mic and we still have to hear that annoying scream. Smh
Your life is very difficult.
@@thomasbayer1843 Talking about yourself?
We were on a tour of Lake Superior in Michigan and witnessed a collapse of the cliff there. We had a ranger on board and we were asked to go over to the site after the water had calmed down and look for bodies as there were people hiking a trail along the top. Fortunately they were not there when it fell.
I wonder if the people there watching this event considered that they are standing on a cliff edge made of exactly the same material, and exactly the same age? Just the rumbling from the one that collapsed could easily have caused the one they were on to do the same.
Amazing. It probably took hundreds of thousands or even millions of years to cause that erosion and you happened to be there in that spec of time that it finally collapsed.
beefcake3131 everybody is annoyed from that screaming women and YOU just say mother nature is amazing :)
Yup...... maybe even patrillions of years
Gohot229 LOL
beefcake3131 I said the same thing rare timing!! WEIRD
Yes, but..... of the trillions of millions of tons of exposed rocks that compose the earth's surface, only a few thousand tons slid a few metres at that moment.
As a geologist.. I love this. First lesson of geology................ GRAVITY ALWAYS WINS.
only until radiation becomes stronger than gravity and the star explodes.
but what about the scream ?
Gravity is a myth.....the world sucks.
For heaven's sake, Time is the undisputed champion. Those who witnessed the beginning and the end,time is no friend.
@@johnstack623 profound. respeck
The most English description of witnessing this: "well, I'm pleased I caught that"
Shocking video quality. 😞
I'm glad the cliffside face stayed there. 🙂
I was gonna comment about the usual annoying screaming woman, but then I read the first 75 percent of the comments and it seems the issue has already been addressed. 😂🤣😂🤣
Thoroughly!!
LOL
In a different epoch she would have gotten slapped in the face.
@Terri Freeman dont be mad cause he calls truth
But....you did comment about the screaming woman...
That screaming is annoying.
My dad thought i was watching porn or something. Stupid ass woman
GE Video Why is there always some female screaming in the background?
Should have fucked her over the edge, that would be reason to scream. Some gobby mare.
Really!!???!!......SCREAMING!!!??!...Duh!!!..🤐
complaining is more so
Very Cool , My Great Great Grandfather was born in Cornwall in 1792 , I hope to be able to see my ancestral lands before my time is up
Just standing around for two billion years waiting for this moment.
Oh darling!!! Please, you stand rrrright here, on this cliff. I'm going to go over there on the other cliff, across the way, and take your picture ... now don't move!
JEEZUS!!! What the HELL was that woman screaming for -- so very annoying and distracting.
Don’t you just love when you can hear the wind through a camera?
Hi there I just love the sound of the wind especially when I am tucked up in bed and to here the rain and thunder it's a great sound🌬🌩⚡🌊very natural
I think that was a woman screaming.
"Oh, I'm pleased I caught that." Understatement of the day. :)
what's the screaming for?!?!?!
When you make the earth move for her and when she actually sees the earth move.
Some women just scream for no reason whatsoever.
One of the guys slipped her the pickle when everyone else was watching the slide..
@@falco1867 BEST RESPONSE EVER!!!!!! +++++++++
People were there by the ocean
Awesome! How did you know it was going to happen?
Wow! Erosion! Where was this North Cliffs failure located?
Amazing capture of the errosive power of nature! Thank you for posting and sharing this awesome event!
there's always some chick screaming
Mate, ya ain't doing it right if she's not screaming.
Or some guy yelling, "holy shit!" or "Oh my fuckin' GOD!!!"
Someone made the earth move...
The dot matrix printer video resolution really conveys the raw power.
Reminds me of a geology class I once took. The prof talked about a guy he knew who worked forever on his PhD monitoring one seashore cliff area's erosion. His point was patience and hard work, and all I could think of was this happening and the poor guy just losing his whole work in seconds.
great camera work, thanks
Awwwwwesome video! Props to the person who didn't flinch filming!
Thank heaven there was no one standing there when it happened, but from the conversation in the background I assume something like this was expected sooner or later. Was the cliff cordoned off nearby out of view?
Imagine all the people that stood on top of that taking selfies and videos, wow…
I can understand all that screaming if you were directly underneath that landslide or indeed if you saw someone being buried alive by it but honestly....
Dude f*** off you watching a video of it on RUclips it's pretty exciting to see giant Cliff collapse everyone was saying s*** the men to dumb s*** but people are only complaining about the woman in a weird sexist way where they just say she's all woman.
But someone says all men are sexist assholes because of all the their shit comments and the same s*** reasoning they use and holyshit they're Jesus Christ upon the cross all of a sudden
@@mauirandall8176 What in the fuck did you even say...?
When you are in a landslide I don't think you'd have much breath for screaming with your chest getting beaten & all that weight - if in the UK it would be like 'oh dear, oh my, blimey, blast,' etc. Maybe she is preparing for that eventuality. Admirable planning, so British.
Yep someone screams like that for no reason id be telling her to shut the fck up or ill throw her off. Damned idiot
The collapsing cliff was getting too much attention so the girl had to scream to bring the attention back to her.
Best comment
She's probably a tennis player.
Women will get hysterical at the slightest hint of adversity.
😂
Exactly! : )))
Imagine if you were just enjoying a nice scenic walk along the cliff tops, then that happens. It would really spoil your day.
"What do you want to do today ?"
"I don't know...let's go see if any cliffs are about to collapse ?"
The entire comment section is talking about screaming woman, wtf
I was gonna give them all a thumbs up but my finger got tired.
+cheekibreeki. Yep! You got it. She damn near took the attention from the cliff collapse, with that fucking high pitch screaming.
nothing special about the video.....only the scream
Was just gonna say.
honestly and without bias, she ruined the video. You know they used to slap women who screamed like this for no reason to make her regain her senses.
I wonder if they thought to look around their own feet to see what might be cracking there too.
Thanks for reminding me not to go and pitch my tent on the edge of something seemingly so beautiful.
When I was a kid, heard the lyrics, "When mountains crumble to the sea" from Zep, and always wondered what the hell that would look like...
Great shot man, I just wish you had another camera to film the wave that the cliff made when it hit the water.
Exactly, very disappointing
your a credit to geologist everywhere, from a student studying at derby, clearly someone knows their stuff. well done and good job