An eerie young television has emerged , showing an earthflow creeping its way across a landscape painting in Russia , levelling everything in its path . It ’s like a tsunami — but one comprise of snowfall , rocks , and clay .
The four - minute video shows the earthflow as it crunches trees and powerlines . you’re able to actually pick up the sounds of the trees snapping . get ta say , the guys filming the video seem remarkably tranquil about the whole thing as they slowly inch back along the route .
Asreportedby the American Geophysical Union ’s Landslide Blog , very niggling is known about the incident , except that it happened on April 1st , 2015 at Zarechnyi , which is in western Russia . It ’s currently the thawing season , so the conditions are right for this type of landslide .
Earthflows happen when ground material like fine sand , corpse , and silt become saturated with so much water that the world becomes viscous . When these condition lift on a side , the downward pull of gravity instigates a fall action . The swiftness of the earthflow depends on the degree of urine saturation and the angle of the slope . It can take years — or in this subject , minute — for the material to move down the incline .
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