If only there were some sort of technology by which this could be recorded in a widescreen format or horizontal orientation to capture the true beauty of this experience.
I came to make the same comment also. Who the heck doesn't know to film in landscape mode. My goodness, he was swinging the camera back and forth, and if he had been in landscape mode, he could have just stood still. 🤣
Sounds like this guy was sitting on the toilet 🚽 bowl and straining really hard . Dude , careful you don’t have a heart attack. You do no what happen to Elvis, right ?
Good catch, BUT, there's a reason that tv/movies are LANDSCAPE and not portrait. Why do cell phone camera users not understand that? Turn them horizontal folks!
@@SDMacMan the human brain can see in horizontal mode, that's why the TV's have 16:9 aspect ratio. Imagine if you would only see a small vertical area in the middle of your TV when you are watching something, it wouldn't be very enjoyable
you will begin to see idiots hanging their t.v.'s this way someday and enabling the option to use tv this way.. LOL just kidding (god i hope).. its all due to one thing, programmers allowing users to choose. this then became the norm from iphone users using apps that only offered the vertical mode due to the amount of time spent using the devices, having to switch hands from fatigue.. it became easier to hold it one handed for simply just swiping with thumb. and using one hand to record at concerts etc.. you cant game or even type properly using this format, but it doesnt matter it is now ingrained. the youth prefer this mode as it is now "corny" to record in landscape mode. however since i transfer most of my content to my p.c., its better to stick to landscape mode. HEX coin $0.025 PZEN coin $0.0027
Initially I thought this video was going to be too long and I wouldn't have the patience to watch it all. But then slowly it got really fascinating and I didn't want it to end!!!
That’s a hellofa landslide? you captured. Unbelievable. Dang man, freakin awesome. Plus, PLUS!! you saved a fellows life. That’s a testament to a hellofa guy.🤜🤛
I’ve been telling this to my friends for years. Californias coast has always been this way it’s natural and it’s how it’s supposed to work. The problem is they built a bunch of houses and businesses right by these cliffs and they’re shocked that it’s eroding. Like it hasn’t been doing that for the thousands of years. The funniest part is I’m not even from San Diego. I’m from Chicago and I’ve just lived out there for 10 years and actually put in some effort to learn about where I moved to. But people who’ve lived there for their entire life don’t understand this.
Even I know this and I'm not from America. People have built houses and other buildings on which is/was reclaimed land (in cali). The stupidity of you guys over there is kind boggling lol
I blame Hunter Biden for this ;) All that rain has to go somewhere as it is seeping out causing this erosion. Seriously though, you are 100% correct Mother Nature showing us who is Boss.
Because not many people go outside of their home, even AFTER the plandemic. The illness that was so deadly that you had to be tested to see if you even have the Illness 🤭🤣
@@corporeidadthis is also one way of knowing our earth is not millions or billions of years old. If our planet were that old then we would have no peaked mountains left, the wind and rain would've weathered away all mountains by now.
Thanks for the recording. I lived in North San Diego for many years. My children were born and grew up there. We enjoyed the beaches and Torrey Pines. I always listened to the park rangers, lifeguards, and the surfers to keep my kids and I away from the cliffs.
How about the guy on top at 5:40 and on. You can see him clearly. What looks like someone up there. It actually looks like someone was throwing or making it fall from up top.
@@aliasiskey4434the gov has the means to make this happen using frequencies . And they can and would have people there to document it. They just would act like stoners and random people to throw us off. Odd how he just happened to be filming at the right time. Don'tcha think ? Lol
Can you imagine having the unique opportunity to witness and record such an incident and then you so thoroughly beef it by filming it in portrait mode while swinging the camera side to side instead of in landscape widescreen mode…
Unfortunately this dumb guy filming made bank on youtube views. I feel like youtube should dock people funds when theyre absolutely terrible videographers
Edit: I’ve since seen other videos that capture where this person stopped recording, and it’s clear to me now that there was a landslide occurring the entire time, and these little rockfalls recorded here were just the surface expression of the beginning of rotation at the head of the landslide. The bulk of the cliff was separating extremely slowly from the rest of it, and this caused loose rocks already exposed on the cliff to fall early on. Unfortunately this video cuts off too early. In other videos you can see the toe of the landslide get thrust out in front onto the beach and the whole hillside rotates. Strictly speaking this was a series of rockfalls, not a landslide. A landslide occurs when an entire section of a highland calves off, leaving a headscarp behind. The scarp is actually the top of a kind of normal fault which continues under the bulk of the landslide and flattens out at the bottom (we call this type of curving fault “listric”), until it completely flattens into a sub horizontal detachment. The landslide block rotates long this curving, listric fault, with the top of the landslide in extension, causing incompetent larger pieces of the rotating block to break off into multiple individually competent smaller pieces. Towers the base of the slide the block is in compression, as the hanging wall (the slide) is being thrust over the sub horizontal detachment below it. Usually this part of the slide will completely liquify and result in chaotic, hummocky terrain that can run out very far from the original base of the hill. The front of the slide is called the “toe”. What we’re seeing here are just a series of cascading rockfalls, not a landslide. Although at times you can observe some landslide -like behavior in the talus that gets deposited at the bottom. Towards the end of the video, the videographer says “the whole cliff is moving”. That is an indication of an actual landslide event occurring. Unfortunately, the video cuts off just then. :(
Good info thanks .I'm studying geology now .wonder what moving or moved under ground ,what pushed up conically or subsurface.i wish I was there to look at some ground there .
W O W !!!! Outside of a powerful volcanic eruption, I have never seen anything like that!! Spectacular!!! Makes you wonder about other Earth features that we thought might have taken forever... when in fact, they happened in a day.... Top notch video! Thank you!!!
We were camping recently at a remote beach in Australia, and I went for a solo walk on a 10 mile long desolate beach. I came across a tiny cave which you had to crawl to explore, and I was tempted to do it. However when I looked up, there was a well-eroded vertical wall of compacted sand right above the small cave, about 15 feet high. There was nobody else on the beach as far as I can see. I weighed the risk... if it collapsed while I was inside, I'd be in big trouble, nobody would have known what really happened to me... and I'd maybe become a case study for future archeologists thousands of years later.
Good call Jonathan…the risk far outweighed the rewards in this case!!! Would’ve been a potentially slow lingering death and as for the effects your disappearance would’ve had on your camping companions…well again, great call!! 👍
Regardless, always use the buddy system when venturing out into the unknown. Make sure someone reliable knows exactly where you are, when to expect you back, and what to do if you don't report in by that time.
Ésto es para saber que la Naturaleza es Divina y no necesita de la FALACIA de la tecnología, es un hecho Naturalmente divino, ó a casó estubo ahí la tecnología RUSA, ó China, ó de Estados Unidos,..... Jajajaja pues No, es lo más hermoso que se puede ver y admirar, gracias a la Naturaleza gracias
Hey there from Colorado! Super intriguing video. I seen a few rock fall, landslide, rock slide etc., thus far. Typically those things occur either with big rains, obviously not going on in the vid or in the spring/fall seasons during the melt/freeze cycles. Also, our mass wasting, as i have seems, tends to be a little movement then a bigger chunk suddenly and that's about it. That slope was going like a fireworks show building up crescendo-like to the finale!
Great timing. I’ve stood where you are many times. After 35 years we moved to the mountains of Idaho. Glad we did for many reasons. This is symbolic….lol.
At 9:54 you can see the sand at the ground/beach level being moved too! 😮 this is an awesome event to witness. I lived at the Oregon coast for nearly 20 years and always wondered how unstable the sandstone is. Well, it’s not!
I was almost ready to nominate him for a Darwin award for best soundtrack and scriptwriting, Natural Events Filming category. But he wised up in the end.
@@lawrencetaylor4101 From that distance, it wasn't. And then they were watching it closely, and moved back accordingly. Knowing that a rockslide is happening kind of takes away any threat because you would immediately move away. Now if he went towards the rocks, then you can unlash your nomination.
Wow that’s some moment you captured there ,it’s sheer size of whatever that was seems fitting with the sheer size of your beautiful country. As a Scotsman and I’m 30 minutes away from sheer beauty and I’ve seen a few things in the 52 years through these aging eyes but…… I’m away to share this to VERO a very cool community. Best wishes from Aberdeen 🏴
This is great, thank you Mark. You can see the rupture line in the beach at the bottom of your picture from the beginning. Then at 9:26 you can start to see the head scarp of the fault near the top left of our picture. The rocks and rubble sliding on the surface is just window dressing. Because at that point the whole mass of the slope fails and rotates, sliding down the head scarp and heaving up at the front of the fault. And to think that this action has happened countless times to form the cliffs along the California beach.
You almost sound thrilled. Devastating mass wasting is wrecking our planet, we must do everything in our power to stop it. There needs to be an effort to place the debris back where it came from.
Torrey pines is one of the most beautiful places in southern California. The trails above those cliffs in the state park are a great place to hike and look out over the ocean from the rugged natural terrain.
I used to live and work very close to Torrey Pines, and I would run through those trails. I am watching from Florida and can not stop wondering how mich has changed in the past 20 years! I did know about the rattlesnake to human ratio, but I never saw one, so it didn't matter. Plus, I would have been close enough to several hospitals with antivenom.
Chapter One in Aron Ralston's book '127 Hours Between a Rock and a Hard Place' is named "Geologic Time Includes Now". The point being that we rarely notice the small changes in geology occurring around us all the time (a slight shift of a rock in the book). Occasionally we get to see something as fantastic as the mountains crumbling into the sea. Several comments are making fun of the narrative, but I appreciate the fact that he can express himself without a steady stream of swearing. A very cool video indeed.
Man I wish we could have seen more. The suspense of wanting to see how much was going to come was intense and then you stopped filming! ( for safety I get it) but dang 😮
I could have watched this for a whole afternoon! Right place, right time, Amazing to see how it started, bit here, bit there then bigger rocks and then large sections of cliff
"and to the dust we shall return" ... I've always been fascinated geology and space planetary systems and everything I just find it so fascinating and started a distance learning course with the Open university in the 90s in science geology but 6 months later found out that I was going to be approximately 183 years old before I earned any decent money so change to fashion design LOL it also never ceases to amaze me that humanity create roads and highways and pretty little gardens and villages and everything else and then they are shocked when mother nature decides to turn over in bed ... When in reality we are just a dying piece of rock flying through outer space 😎 Happy Easter to one and all.
That was awesome!!! I’ve hiked over there a few times and am not surprised that this collapsed with all the coves that get carved out. Plus the rocks that constantly batter the wall and heavy rain here recently, im surprised we haven’t seen more of this. As a fellow rock hounder… I’m so excited to get over there! I’ve found a few fossilized oysters in that general area a couple years back. 😍
Thanks for posting this! It’s amazing to be able to watch nature reshape itself. That paraglider had the most amazing view I bet! And no one was hurt in the process 🙏
ASMR just went NEXT LEVEL! There's me thinking, 2 minutes in, that I want that big piece of rock to go pow... But no, I was hooked for the whole 10 minutes. Thank you for posting this. It was weirdly captivating and exhilarating and I'm glad you captured this on camera. Glad you knew when to 'bail out' of the situation. Thanks for sharing.
Excellent video. Glad you guys all got some great shots from different angles. Us geologists love to geek out on it. Amazing to see the whole slope moving.
So what was causing this? Was it somehow related to the King Tides? I live in Coronado not too far away and heard the cliffs were collapsing, but there weren’t any earth quakes so I wondered what else could have caused it?
@@StonedGossard_ true it would be better in landscape but it does have some great documentation of pretty cool slope failure. Most of the time we don't get to see it at all.
@@chucksolutions4579 it was the rain we had over the past several weeks. These cliffs are pretty unstable, the "rock" is not very consolidated. The King tides probably didn't have any effect. It ended up being a pretty wide section of the cliff, so I would say it was the heavy rains we had. The slopes are not stable in that environment.
Glad you got the shot! Being at the right place at the right time is underrated! My friend and I just happened to be at Mt. St. Helens at the second big blow on Oct. 1, 2004…what a rush!
Perplexing is the word that comes to mind. I didn't go through all the comments but the ones I did look at I saw nothing explaining this. Thanks for posting it.
Oh Mark, what an awesome experience you have been given, to film this! This was my favorite beach and cliffs to walk and jog on. I remember back in the 1990s 2 people who were sunbathing at the bottom of the cliffs when a slide happened. Unfortunately they were killed. But sunsets are amazing on those cliffs. I miss that beautiful place.
Torrey Pines! One of my favorite special places to spend time at to walk the beach & hike up the cliff to the forest on top. Beautiful uplifting place! Was SO sad to hear about this slide. Have to wonder if it was in the areas I used to roam, walk & hike.
Loving the narration duuuuude! The Southern California drawl! Man I miss it! Great catch and thank you for sticking around to video such an awesome event!
@@serronserron1320 you think that until you have lived in TN for two years and one day one walking a into your store. You can not only spot them a mile away but as soon as they speak you can guess what end of California they are from! I have lived in 7 states and this has held true in every one of them, Not just the Deep South. I felt the same way you do having grown up in San Diego and San Luis Obispo counties. But shocked how distinct it was when Californians would come into our store in Chattanooga.
Tbh I appreciate getting to see most of it but the climatic end being cut short almost makes me wish I didn't watch at all cuz I know the best part didn't get filmed. 😪😪
Really cool to see this. I used to surf fish and snorkel by those bluffs. Also, close to Blacks beach, a different kind of Scenery. Those bluffs have many fossils, you can pick up thousands in the right place after the slides. This is a natural process. There used to be a 4th street in Encinitas.
Mr. Spicolli, I can understand your fascination, watching the rocks roll down the hill. So spellbound in fact rendering you practically speechless. However, did you plan on sharing the rest of the landslide with the entire class or not? FTRH
The sound, and sheer force, of when even a small slab of mountain releases and slides down, is incredible! It sounds and feels like a mild earthquake, even from a few hundred yards away.
I feel like I missed something here. The name of the vid was '...ends with a boom' but there was no boom. There was no nothing. Now I read your comment saying something about the sound that it made. Did I miss it???
I moved to San Diego about 30 years ago and was amazed at how narrow the beaches are and how treacherous the cliffs. Made me feel terrified to walk at high tide. Many have died just being on the cliffside beaches here. Best to keep off them and go to open ground if you want to hang out at the beach.
@@stargazer7644 even at low tide the beach is very narrow for many beaches here and honestly given how unstable the cliffs here are I won’t go to those beaches.
@@rnrpeg1 actually I was surprised, coming from actual wide beaches of Oregon how thin and rocky the ocean shore is down in Southern California. Any actual sandy beaches are artificially produced using dredges down here. Most locals don’t realize because they don’t even go to the “beach” in winter when it’s being built for tourists.
After heavy rains in our rainy winter season in San Diego, California, this is very typical. However, there is usually no one there to record the events. Avoiding the cliffs after heavy rains is strongly recommended. Many thanks to the posters of this video!
I haven't been down there in years. Those cliffs look so much more eroded than they were when I was a kid. I wonder if there is still even a trail anymore? That was the quickest way to the break, and if you walked south you would be at Torrey Pines SB (technically blacks is part of Torrey Pines, but it's infamous for other reasons). The only other way there is a long walk, and you have to time it not to leave when high tide is rolling in, else you might find yourself wading back. When the swell is right though, there is a really good break right there.
Thank you Mark for the amazing footage. I know you had to get out of there but at the same time. We liked to see the whole cliff come down but safety comes first... AWESOME..
If only there were some sort of technology by which this could be recorded in a widescreen format or horizontal orientation to capture the true beauty of this experience.
I came to make the same comment also. Who the heck doesn't know to film in landscape mode. My goodness, he was swinging the camera back and forth, and if he had been in landscape mode, he could have just stood still. 🤣
I wondered if he was focused on the vertical movement of rocks, and that kept him holding the camera in the portrait orientation
I thought portrait mode worked pretty well for this video. You got to see the cliff from the top to the bottom and where the rocks ended up.
just further proof that the world is full of people unable to learn the simplest things.
Sounds like this guy was sitting on the toilet 🚽 bowl and straining really hard .
Dude , careful you don’t have a heart attack. You do no what happen to Elvis, right ?
Good to see Bill and Ted are still having excellent adventures 🤣😂🎸🎸🎸
Party on dudes..
Whoooooaaaa!!
🤣🤣
DUDE
Most triumphant! LOL
Good catch, BUT, there's a reason that tv/movies are LANDSCAPE and not portrait. Why do cell phone camera users not understand that? Turn them horizontal folks!
LOL mee to, wanted to point out the same thing. The vertical panning is a bit annoying, we would see so much more in landscape mode
Ditto
Maybe he's capturing it vertically in order to be able to frame the entire cliff top to bottom. Did you think of that?
@@SDMacMan Then zoom out.
But I think they THEY think most will watch on phones, not desktops, and forget that phones can rotate.
@@SDMacMan the human brain can see in horizontal mode, that's why the TV's have 16:9 aspect ratio. Imagine if you would only see a small vertical area in the middle of your TV when you are watching something, it wouldn't be very enjoyable
Good cliffhanger stopping the video when the entire cliff starts to fall down.
That's why they call it a cliff-hanger, I see
Is there part 2?
Looks like he had to run 😬
@@boyanaskrbic yes. Better safe than sorry!
Why stop ??
Jeff Spicolli narrates a rock slide. Radical Mr. Hand…radical.
Came here for that comment lol
Hahahaha...whoa...❤️
Gnarly dude, totally!
Relax, I can fix it!
"Awesome! Totally Awesome!"
The portrait of that landscape was brilliantly filmed.
Not sure the camera man understands this brilliant comment... 😅
Epic.....
You said it more eloquently than I would have.
I also like "ohhhhh maaaaaaan" all over the sounds of nature
And the panning away from interesting moments...🙄🤦
I’m not here to complain HOW it was filmed. I just came to say I’m SO GLAD IT WAS FILMED!!! Absolutely AMAZING!! Loved it! WOW! Just WOW!!!
Let me complain
you will begin to see idiots hanging their t.v.'s this way someday and enabling the option to use tv this way.. LOL just kidding (god i hope).. its all due to one thing, programmers allowing users to choose. this then became the norm from iphone users using apps that only offered the vertical mode due to the amount of time spent using the devices, having to switch hands from fatigue.. it became easier to hold it one handed for simply just swiping with thumb. and using one hand to record at concerts etc.. you cant game or even type properly using this format, but it doesnt matter it is now ingrained. the youth prefer this mode as it is now "corny" to record in landscape mode. however since i transfer most of my content to my p.c., its better to stick to landscape mode. HEX coin $0.025 PZEN coin $0.0027
I am here to complain! Where is the rest of it? There was more mountain coming down. I hope they have a sequel. 🙂
I’m complaining. It looks like it was filmed from inside a glass of water.
I'm glad there's at least one righteous person in this whole heartless group!!! Cough, landscape, cough....
I like Surfer Dudes non geological explanation of what’s goin on. He Crushed it.🤟🏼
Heck yeah. 👍💥👍
Initially I thought this video was going to be too long and I wouldn't have the patience to watch it all. But then slowly it got really fascinating and I didn't want it to end!!!
And then it ended right when it got really good 😢
Yeah it looks like it warming up
No, it wasn't too long but it sure was narrow.
😀😀 me too
Same! 😀
that was more entertaining than anything i've seen from hollywood lately, thanks for posting this. pretty amazing, glad no one was hurt.
Its a transmountain transitioning into a prairie.
I'm so happy Hollywood still films horizontally...
I stopped watching that zio BS propaganda years ago .
@@pallikorva11 You got a point - if they only could keep it as short.
local news report multiple deaths in the past decades over several events.
The person recording this is definitely from San Diego
Love your channel! And definitely a surfer bro lmao
And definitely a moron for filming in portrait mode.
Whoooaaa
Or from the Himalayas
Really? I thought it was Butthead
That’s a hellofa landslide? you captured. Unbelievable. Dang man, freakin awesome. Plus, PLUS!! you saved a fellows life. That’s a testament to a hellofa guy.🤜🤛
I’ve been telling this to my friends for years. Californias coast has always been this way it’s natural and it’s how it’s supposed to work. The problem is they built a bunch of houses and businesses right by these cliffs and they’re shocked that it’s eroding. Like it hasn’t been doing that for the thousands of years.
The funniest part is I’m not even from San Diego. I’m from Chicago and I’ve just lived out there for 10 years and actually put in some effort to learn about where I moved to. But people who’ve lived there for their entire life don’t understand this.
Even I know this and I'm not from America. People have built houses and other buildings on which is/was reclaimed land (in cali). The stupidity of you guys over there is kind boggling lol
wrong. this is bc of climate change. duh
I blame Hunter Biden for this ;)
All that rain has to go somewhere as it is seeping out causing this erosion.
Seriously though, you are 100% correct Mother Nature showing us who is Boss.
That is why I don't get it that this guys taking the video still got the nerve to laugh on what's happening right before their eyes.
@@franciscolopez3229 Honestly, I think he's some slacker dude smoking a joint: "Woah"! ;^)
Incredible how he was able to capture a million year time lapse of the earth's erosion and the cave man running for his life is amazing!!
Hahaha 😆... Love that "Cave man" comment...😆 🤣
Perfection
Thousands*
I'm surprised that the caveman didn't have GEICO. I mean it's, Umm, It's so easy that, you know...anybody can do it. Even...yeah that guy!
just proved the is only 6000 years old,
Jesus is coming soon .John 3:16
a real cliff hanger at the end
LMFAO
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🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
This phone was recovered from the rubble...
th-cam.com/video/5RV9b6ZQBSw/w-d-xo.html better version till it stops
The Paraglider at 2:49 wasn’t expected. Cool 😎
I could honestly watch videos like this for hours. Many of us don't get to experience stuff like this first hand. It's incredible. Great video.
And you still haven't experienced it first hand...lol
😂
Because not many people go outside of their home, even AFTER the plandemic. The illness that was so deadly that you had to be tested to see if you even have the Illness 🤭🤣
@@krw73 But from second hand Is what's saying. Not so hard to understand ...
@@corporeidadthis is also one way of knowing our earth is not millions or billions of years old. If our planet were that old then we would have no peaked mountains left, the wind and rain would've weathered away all mountains by now.
Thanks for the recording. I lived in North San Diego for many years. My children were born and grew up there. We enjoyed the beaches and Torrey Pines. I always listened to the park rangers, lifeguards, and the surfers to keep my kids and I away from the cliffs.
Well its blacks so I'm surprised no naked people ran by
The sound of the rocks tumbling is very soothing.
ASMR
How do you hear anything over this loud fool?
Audio sensory meridian rocks
Until their laid upon your head!😳🙄🤷♂️🤦♂️🤣😂🤣😂
It almost sounds like a crackling fire pit.
Thanks for sharing. Having lived in Northern CA for 25-years, I saw a number of after-the-fact slides and always wondered what the event was like.
The laughter and awe toward the end is priceless. Humans are tiny ❤.
I know, right???😁😁😁♥️
💯 😂
But 130 years of humans living here caused this climate change.. lolol . people need to get out and see nature for yourself.. this video was awesome.
It did infact , end , with him saying boom. Truly incredible
More like..
🌸 boom 🧚♂️🍼😅
But no Pines.
😂😂😂😁🧪🧪🧪🧪💚🤙
Damn... you just spoiled the ENDING for everybody. ☺ 😂
Thank you so much for filming and sharing this. It was fascinating to watch.
Lest we forget just how dynamic the coast can be. Thanks for bringing it to us. Cheers.
Wow! So cool! You were right about it ending with a boom! Laughing at "Whoooooooaaaaaa" the whole time. Total surfer, haha.
Actually, we all just talk like that. It's cracking me up to see all the comments about it. Watched it 4x and never noticed. 😀
Exactly, lolol! Sounded like some '90's movie spoofing surfers. Whoa, WHOA, Dude, *whoa* 😂
Like, that's just your opinion, man.
Sounding like Sean Penn's character from Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Jeff Spicoli. LOL
I’m glad I’m not the only one that noticed
That one guy is CRAZY to be that close!
Yeah, you’ve got rock falling on your left and right so you just stand in the middle filming. Seems like a death wish to me.
Reminded me of that Ron Artest NBA brawl. Guy was just standing there filming with his phone with all the chaos going around him and got smacked😊
How about the guy on top at 5:40 and on. You can see him clearly. What looks like someone up there. It actually looks like someone was throwing or making it fall from up top.
@@aliasiskey4434the gov has the means to make this happen using frequencies . And they can and would have people there to document it. They just would act like stoners and random people to throw us off. Odd how he just happened to be filming at the right time. Don'tcha think ? Lol
Can you imagine having the unique opportunity to witness and record such an incident and then you so thoroughly beef it by filming it in portrait mode while swinging the camera side to side instead of in landscape widescreen mode…
Unfortunately this dumb guy filming made bank on youtube views. I feel like youtube should dock people funds when theyre absolutely terrible videographers
Edit: I’ve since seen other videos that capture where this person stopped recording, and it’s clear to me now that there was a landslide occurring the entire time, and these little rockfalls recorded here were just the surface expression of the beginning of rotation at the head of the landslide. The bulk of the cliff was separating extremely slowly from the rest of it, and this caused loose rocks already exposed on the cliff to fall early on. Unfortunately this video cuts off too early. In other videos you can see the toe of the landslide get thrust out in front onto the beach and the whole hillside rotates.
Strictly speaking this was a series of rockfalls, not a landslide. A landslide occurs when an entire section of a highland calves off, leaving a headscarp behind. The scarp is actually the top of a kind of normal fault which continues under the bulk of the landslide and flattens out at the bottom (we call this type of curving fault “listric”), until it completely flattens into a sub horizontal detachment. The landslide block rotates long this curving, listric fault, with the top of the landslide in extension, causing incompetent larger pieces of the rotating block to break off into multiple individually competent smaller pieces. Towers the base of the slide the block is in compression, as the hanging wall (the slide) is being thrust over the sub horizontal detachment below it. Usually this part of the slide will completely liquify and result in chaotic, hummocky terrain that can run out very far from the original base of the hill. The front of the slide is called the “toe”. What we’re seeing here are just a series of cascading rockfalls, not a landslide. Although at times you can observe some landslide -like behavior in the talus that gets deposited at the bottom.
Towards the end of the video, the videographer says “the whole cliff is moving”. That is an indication of an actual landslide event occurring. Unfortunately, the video cuts off just then. :(
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Good info thanks .I'm studying geology now .wonder what moving or moved under ground ,what pushed up conically or subsurface.i wish I was there to look at some ground there .
So how much more of the Cliffside comes down in those later videos you seen?
Great comment. Got to find the other videos now
Too bad video ends when it starts going down!
W O W !!!! Outside of a powerful volcanic eruption, I have never seen anything like that!! Spectacular!!! Makes you wonder about other Earth features that we thought might have taken forever... when in fact, they happened in a day....
Top notch video! Thank you!!!
We were camping recently at a remote beach in Australia, and I went for a solo walk on a 10 mile long desolate beach. I came across a tiny cave which you had to crawl to explore, and I was tempted to do it. However when I looked up, there was a well-eroded vertical wall of compacted sand right above the small cave, about 15 feet high. There was nobody else on the beach as far as I can see. I weighed the risk... if it collapsed while I was inside, I'd be in big trouble, nobody would have known what really happened to me... and I'd maybe become a case study for future archeologists thousands of years later.
You are a smart man and let your instinct for self-preservation kick in.
Good call Jonathan…the risk far outweighed the rewards in this case!!! Would’ve been a potentially slow lingering death and as for the effects your disappearance would’ve had on your camping companions…well again, great call!! 👍
Smart.
Pu$$y. (Just kidding man, ha. Good call.)
Regardless, always use the buddy system when venturing out into the unknown. Make sure someone reliable knows exactly where you are, when to expect you back, and what to do if you don't report in by that time.
Aaaaaand you stopped filming….
probably ran out of storage space
Couldn't afford the rest of the CGI.
No cgi here. I remember when this happened.
Oh for the love of.......@@ImogenC-rt3fm
@@ImogenC-rt3fmThis isn't cgi, go outside.
You left us with a cliffhanger man! We wanted to see the mountain fall
Nice pun.
Those woahs have to be the most Californian surf dude ever hahaha
Awesome video
I thought he was taking a dump
Cowabunga ✌️
I was mesmerised by this, you don’t get to see such a transformation in one’s lifetime. Nature at it’s best
THAT'S DEEP
@@davidblankenship2720😂
Ésto es para saber que la Naturaleza es Divina y no necesita de la FALACIA de la tecnología, es un hecho Naturalmente divino, ó a casó estubo ahí la tecnología RUSA, ó China, ó de Estados Unidos,..... Jajajaja pues No, es lo más hermoso que se puede ver y admirar, gracias a la Naturaleza gracias
ITS
In other words: WOOOAAAH! MAAAAAN! 😉
Hey there from Colorado! Super intriguing video. I seen a few rock fall, landslide, rock slide etc., thus far. Typically those things occur either with big rains, obviously not going on in the vid or in the spring/fall seasons during the melt/freeze cycles. Also, our mass wasting, as i have seems, tends to be a little movement then a bigger chunk suddenly and that's about it. That slope was going like a fireworks show building up crescendo-like to the finale!
Great timing. I’ve stood where you are many times. After 35 years we moved to the mountains of Idaho. Glad we did for many reasons. This is symbolic….lol.
At 9:54 you can see the sand at the ground/beach level being moved too! 😮 this is an awesome event to witness. I lived at the Oregon coast for nearly 20 years and always wondered how unstable the sandstone is. Well, it’s not!
Well spotted, that was freaking weird.
I grew up in Lincoln City Oregon. Now we stay in Pacific City and the cliffs there make me nervous!
sandstone is a very weak rock, but that's what gets us such cool formations.
That looks for like an artefact of video stabilization
@@AttacMage ....HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH....sandstone is a very weak rock!!! HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA
Love the enthusiasm of this guy!!!!! Incredible how the whole things happens in slow motion
I can't find it now but there's a comment saying that if you just hear the guy you may think he is in the toilette having poo 🤣🤣🤣
Thank you for the very slow panning! What a thing to observe,!
I was almost ready to nominate him for a Darwin award for best soundtrack and scriptwriting, Natural Events Filming category. But he wised up in the end.
RIGHT.... "Thee" Lawrence Taylor ? 🤔
Honestly I thought his narration was wayyyyy better than “f” this and “f” that or “d” and “s”.
I mean, they were pretty far even before they backed up. That slide was definitely not a threat, as they're actively watching it.
@@1597B Not a threat?
Why were they leaving?
@@lawrencetaylor4101 From that distance, it wasn't. And then they were watching it closely, and moved back accordingly. Knowing that a rockslide is happening kind of takes away any threat because you would immediately move away. Now if he went towards the rocks, then you can unlash your nomination.
•sees a landscape• Let's film this in portrait! For real tho cool video!
its actually better it was filmed this way
@@limeylit It's actually better that it was filmed this way th-cam.com/video/5RV9b6ZQBSw/w-d-xo.html
Pet peeve. It's NOT film. It's a video recorder. You don't film it you record it.
@@rlowle1228 digitized
Better version th-cam.com/video/5RV9b6ZQBSw/w-d-xo.html
Wow that’s some moment you captured there ,it’s sheer size of whatever that was seems fitting with the sheer size of your beautiful country.
As a Scotsman and I’m 30 minutes away from sheer beauty and I’ve seen a few things in the 52 years through these aging eyes but……
I’m away to share this to VERO a very cool community.
Best wishes from Aberdeen 🏴
Americans always add such intelligent commentary........
Always hating on Americans 🤦🏾♂️
This is great, thank you Mark. You can see the rupture line in the beach at the bottom of your picture from the beginning. Then at 9:26 you can start to see the head scarp of the fault near the top left of our picture. The rocks and rubble sliding on the surface is just window dressing. Because at that point the whole mass of the slope fails and rotates, sliding down the head scarp and heaving up at the front of the fault. And to think that this action has happened countless times to form the cliffs along the California beach.
Yes, all of those words
You almost sound thrilled. Devastating mass wasting is wrecking our planet, we must do everything in our power to stop it. There needs to be an effort to place the debris back where it came from.
I think this was more of a translational rock slide than a rotational slide, but there may have been elements of both. It was complex for sure.
So it really wasnt caused by global warming ?
Man great diagnosis. I totally missed the ground upheaval at the end. That was amazing.
Torrey pines is one of the most beautiful places in southern California.
The trails above those cliffs in the state park are a great place to hike and look out over the ocean from the rugged natural terrain.
Yes, I used to agree... Until I found out the ratio of rattlesnakes to people ... 😳😬. Wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then. 🤣
I used to live and work very close to Torrey Pines, and I would run through those trails. I am watching from Florida and can not stop wondering how mich has changed in the past 20 years!
I did know about the rattlesnake to human ratio, but I never saw one, so it didn't matter. Plus, I would have been close enough to several hospitals with antivenom.
Unless/until you happen to be standing on some of that terrain when it decides that the fight against gravity is just too much...
Oh isn't that where Black's Beach nudist area is?
@@richarde.rednerjr.5142 *WAS 😈
Even though watching this made me feel somewhat anxious, there was still something very naturally soothing and organic about it.
You left us with a cliffhanger, LITERALLY…. is there a pt. 2 ? 🙏😀
Over budget already man
@@davidblankenship2720 😂
@@davidblankenship2720 underrated comment bro 😂😂😂
Other people there, someone got it!!!
What a magical moment.. to be there
here again & again to re-re watch!!
again THANKS 4 SHARING MAN!!!
Incredible and mesmerizing. Thanks for staying safe and being there.
That was an awesome catch. That there was definitely a once in a lifetime adventure. Great commentary.
Chapter One in Aron Ralston's book '127 Hours Between a Rock and a Hard Place' is named "Geologic Time Includes Now". The point being that we rarely notice the small changes in geology occurring around us all the time (a slight shift of a rock in the book). Occasionally we get to see something as fantastic as the mountains crumbling into the sea.
Several comments are making fun of the narrative, but I appreciate the fact that he can express himself without a steady stream of swearing. A very cool video indeed.
How and why?
UNBELIEVABLY FASCINATING!
Thank You for capturing and sharing.
🫵🏻 now this is good video content!🤜🏼🤛🏼
Man I wish we could have seen more. The suspense of wanting to see how much was going to come was intense and then you stopped filming! ( for safety I get it) but dang 😮
I could have watched this for a whole afternoon! Right place, right time, Amazing to see how it started, bit here, bit there then bigger rocks and then large sections of cliff
Just drop a tab !!!watch it till you come down dude
"and to the dust we shall return" ... I've always been fascinated geology and space planetary systems and everything I just find it so fascinating and started a distance learning course with the Open university in the 90s in science geology but 6 months later found out that I was going to be approximately 183 years old before I earned any decent money so change to fashion design LOL it also never ceases to amaze me that humanity create roads and highways and pretty little gardens and villages and everything else and then they are shocked when mother nature decides to turn over in bed ... When in reality we are just a dying piece of rock flying through outer space 😎 Happy Easter to one and all.
That was awesome!!! I’ve hiked over there a few times and am not surprised that this collapsed with all the coves that get carved out. Plus the rocks that constantly batter the wall and heavy rain here recently, im surprised we haven’t seen more of this. As a fellow rock hounder… I’m so excited to get over there! I’ve found a few fossilized oysters in that general area a couple years back. 😍
Please be careful around there.
I broke my tooth on a fossilized oatmeal cookie the league president made at the bowling alley.
@@treeman2660 I've made a few of those myself.
Thanks for posting this! It’s amazing to be able to watch nature reshape itself. That paraglider had the most amazing view I bet! And no one was hurt in the process 🙏
Absolutely amazing and you were there to catch it on film! TY! Glad you are safe!
TURN YOUR CAMERA SIDEWAYS. What's wrong with you?
Why don't you just enjoy what's there without being insulting?
Rude
Thank you for the awesome narration...and without the typical OMGs! What a great video. I understand why you chose portrait mode.
You take 1 souvenir rock and this happens. They alway said Cali will fall into the ocean.
I was waiting for those omg's, what a surprise - none.
Nice catch brother. Great presence of mind to have a steady hand for some nice camera work. Well done
"In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand, there is the story of the earth." -- Rachel Carson
Thank you for this. ❤️
yep rock used to nephilim giants !!!
"The mind is the only weapon that doesn't need a holster" -- Paul Blart
Silent spring.
What was causing this to happen?
Thank you for recording this. A great snapshot (yeah) of landslide magic. So compelling.
ASMR just went NEXT LEVEL!
There's me thinking, 2 minutes in, that I want that big piece of rock to go pow... But no, I was hooked for the whole 10 minutes. Thank you for posting this. It was weirdly captivating and exhilarating and I'm glad you captured this on camera. Glad you knew when to 'bail out' of the situation. Thanks for sharing.
I think I dozed off three times..
ASMR is a marketing joke.
@@tabcobra DOZED, or were you doing drugs...and really DOSED?
@@johnfranklin5277 Alright, dozed. Get a life.
Excellent video. Glad you guys all got some great shots from different angles. Us geologists love to geek out on it. Amazing to see the whole slope moving.
So what was causing this? Was it somehow related to the King Tides? I live in Coronado not too far away and heard the cliffs were collapsing, but there weren’t any earth quakes so I wondered what else could have caused it?
it's a fucking terrible video shot in the wrong aspect
@@StonedGossard_ true it would be better in landscape but it does have some great documentation of pretty cool slope failure. Most of the time we don't get to see it at all.
@@chucksolutions4579 it was the rain we had over the past several weeks. These cliffs are pretty unstable, the "rock" is not very consolidated. The King tides probably didn't have any effect. It ended up being a pretty wide section of the cliff, so I would say it was the heavy rains we had. The slopes are not stable in that environment.
@@scottsnyder8691 thanks
Gnarly. Thanks for catching this and posting.
Bellísimoooo!!! Nuestra madre Tierra cambiando! Espectacular! Gracias y saludos 🇲🇽
😊 thank you! That was so fun to watch. I cannot imagine being there in person
Glad you got the shot! Being at the right place at the right time is underrated! My friend and I just happened to be at Mt. St. Helens at the second big blow on
Oct. 1, 2004…what a rush!
Perplexing is the word that comes to mind. I didn't go through all the comments but the ones I did look at I saw nothing explaining this. Thanks for posting it.
Oh Mark, what an awesome experience you have been given, to film this! This was my favorite beach and cliffs to walk and jog on. I remember back in the 1990s 2 people who were sunbathing at the bottom of the cliffs when a slide happened. Unfortunately they were killed. But sunsets are amazing on those cliffs. I miss that beautiful place.
Torrey Pines! One of my favorite special places to spend time at to walk the beach & hike up the cliff to the forest on top. Beautiful uplifting place! Was SO sad to hear about this slide. Have to wonder if it was in the areas I used to roam, walk & hike.
“From dust you came, and to dust you will return.”
Great video, thanks for posting.
The ways the whole cliffs start to move gives me chills down the spine 😅
All those living by the water should move. Because it will all be submerged under water. The ocean will swallow it soon.
Same (regarding chills down the spine)? I don't know about future geology.
Loving the narration duuuuude! The Southern California drawl! Man I miss it! Great catch and thank you for sticking around to video such an awesome event!
Californians don't have an accent
@@serronserron1320 you think that until you have lived in TN for two years and one day one walking a into your store. You can not only spot them a mile away but as soon as they speak you can guess what end of California they are from! I have lived in 7 states and this has held true in every one of them, Not just the Deep South. I felt the same way you do having grown up in San Diego and San Luis Obispo counties. But shocked how distinct it was when Californians would come into our store in Chattanooga.
Wich is the reason? Wind? Or did it colapse for the weight?
So cool to see. You always hear 'it took millions of years to erode 6 inches in this canyon.' Then we get to watch this.
Yeah, they never mention that after waiting a million years, the six inches goes all at once.
@@glashoppah That is very true. It only makes this more special to be able to watch. :)
What a beautiful landscape
Too bad it wasn’t filmed in landscape
Or filmed when it actually started doing something.
Wow! Thank you for sharing this. Just wish you could have kept going. I wanted to see that tiny blue flag at the very top come down. 😊
He stopped at the worst time!
Everyone knows:
Camera man always survives
I noticed something on top of the peak at the 7:55 mark. Glad it wasn't a person.
Wider angle:
th-cam.com/video/5RV9b6ZQBSw/w-d-xo.html
Yeah, it seems like he stopped just when some big pieces were about to come down.
Yo this was awesome I felt like I was watching it with you!
One of the rare "stay till the end" that pays off.
What?? It was underwhelming.
Tbh I appreciate getting to see most of it but the climatic end being cut short almost makes me wish I didn't watch at all cuz I know the best part didn't get filmed. 😪😪
@@swayzy762 I liked the "cliff hanger" (pun!) at the end. : P
Except he did not stay to the end, unfortunately'
This guy actually stayed and filmed it properly th-cam.com/video/5RV9b6ZQBSw/w-d-xo.html
This is the equivalent of trying to watch a game, but having your toddler walk back and forth in front of the television.
Lmfaoooo!!!
Not if you know how to control your kid.
@MORRIS REDDIC Shut up Donny, you're out of your element.
Really cool to see this. I used to surf fish and snorkel by those bluffs. Also, close to Blacks beach, a different kind of Scenery.
Those bluffs have many fossils, you can pick up thousands in the right place after the slides.
This is a natural process. There used to be a 4th street in Encinitas.
Mr. Spicolli, I can understand your fascination, watching the rocks roll down the hill. So spellbound in fact rendering you practically speechless. However, did you plan on sharing the rest of the landslide with the entire class or not?
FTRH
"Duuuuuude... That was Gnarly!!" Yup, nature at its finest here.
OMG! OMG! This was amazing to see! Thanks for posting such an incredible event. I've never seen a mountain collapse before!! Thanks!
The sound, and sheer force, of when even a small slab of mountain releases and slides down, is incredible! It sounds and feels like a mild earthquake, even from a few hundred yards away.
I feel like I missed something here. The name of the vid was '...ends with a boom' but there was no boom. There was no nothing. Now I read your comment saying something about the sound that it made. Did I miss it???
It's amazing how week that rock is there. It turns into crushed stone in seconds. Great footage.
Great catch So glad you stayed that long and keep rolling! Mother Nature is so awesome to watch
I moved to San Diego about 30 years ago and was amazed at how narrow the beaches are and how treacherous the cliffs. Made me feel terrified to walk at high tide. Many have died just being on the cliffside beaches here. Best to keep off them and go to open ground if you want to hang out at the beach.
Depends on if you time it to go at high or low tide.
@@stargazer7644 even at low tide the beach is very narrow for many beaches here and honestly given how unstable the cliffs here are I won’t go to those beaches.
@@r8chlletters Lucky us!! MILES AND MILES of both bluff-hugging AND flat beautiful beaches. ❤️
@@rnrpeg1 actually I was surprised, coming from actual wide beaches of Oregon how thin and rocky the ocean shore is down in Southern California. Any actual sandy beaches are artificially produced using dredges down here. Most locals don’t realize because they don’t even go to the “beach” in winter when it’s being built for tourists.
The cammer occasionally going "woooooohh" are my favorite parts 🤣
I know, I totally laughed the whole time. "Whooooa, dude."
😂
Woooohh maaann. Cali dudes for ya
Hi af
I can understand that rain & time has made the cliff unstable but what starts each landslip when the previous one has finished for a few minutes ?
CGI has NOTHING on you!! It was SOOOO satisfying in a weird way to watch the mountain of rock move. Thank you for sharing.
Completely fascinating.. the whole time my brain is just wondering what vibration started this chain of events.. its hypnotizing
GOOD Vibrations ( Beach Boys )
☆
This is just what normal wind and water erosion looks like, although there could have been a small tremor that caused the keystone to unbutton.
Since the mountain was up chucking it was more of inner erosion
After heavy rains in our rainy winter season in San Diego, California, this is very typical. However, there is usually no one there to record the events. Avoiding the cliffs after heavy rains is strongly recommended. Many thanks to the posters of this video!
I could watch this for five hours straight!!! To me it’s relaxing.
I haven't been down there in years. Those cliffs look so much more eroded than they were when I was a kid. I wonder if there is still even a trail anymore? That was the quickest way to the break, and if you walked south you would be at Torrey Pines SB (technically blacks is part of Torrey Pines, but it's infamous for other reasons). The only other way there is a long walk, and you have to time it not to leave when high tide is rolling in, else you might find yourself wading back. When the swell is right though, there is a really good break right there.
I remember Blacks haven’t been there for decades
It was a slow start at first. but then gained momentum. Fascinating.
Thank you Mark for the amazing footage. I know you had to get out of there but at the same time. We liked to see the whole cliff come down but safety comes first... AWESOME..
What is a cause of this sliding ?