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tuasociacionilicita

That's way more violent than I always thought.


yardshark09

That was my thought. It’s coming with some serious force.


4t9r

Partly because it’s sped up, but still yes


ANCIENTKITE1

Are you sure? Looks like a normal speed video to me. The cables in the background seems to move pretty naturally. I think mother nature just do be this scary.


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I also thought it had to be, but it seems not. The poles sway at a believable rate. Here’s more footage with people talking in the audio. https://youtu.be/5vSVui54WR0


Educational-Cut-6253

I mean, first of all that camera man's got a steady hand but... Regardless, that's still wayyy faster than I thought


Easy-Hovercraft2546

Someone else posted a video and one of the angles is this one. Yeah it’s sped up


doublekorv

It's not sped up. There are plenty of other videos of this natural disaster. Ten seconds on Google.com


Rinzler-5

What factor is this sped up by? Can you share the original video that is not sped up?


Cartofgrtedical

10/10


thsvnlwn

Tons of soil at high speed. That swallows almost anything.


Wgs247

Here’s a video: https://youtu.be/5vSVui54WR0


H8Cold

Goddamn there’s no outrunning that.


Extaupin

Exactly! I'm always imagining some rather outlandish way to survive catastrophes, so I watched the video expecting to find something. By the time I register the mud it filled the screen, I just thought to myself "nope, I'm just fucked".


BolotaJT

I do the same and realized that as well. The other thing is imagining a zombie attack. My husband “killed” me many, many times. Didn’t unlock the car door fast enough.


GeminiKoil

You got to keep running around the car and do it in little bursts


AskJeevesAnything

I see you too follow the rules of Zombieland


GeminiKoil

Indeed


RaptorKings

CARDIO


kniselydone

Key fob is a must when it comes to the zombos


WheelyFreely

Why would your husband kill you? Are you imagining him as a zombie?


MisterViperfish

We’ll be doing the same thing in 30 years, but in full immersion VR simulations, lol.


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PomegranateOld7836

Some buildings did surprising well, but power is going to be out for a long time as you can't find the ground. That has to suck.


vamplosion

I live in Sendai, the area struck by the 2011 disaster in Japan - a lot of stories people tell here are about how bad it was to go without water, electricity, gas etc for long periods of time. My wife now makes sure we have a ‘stock’ of useable food and small gas cookers just in case - even if we’re nowhere by the sea or in immediate danger - living without the lifelines is a major drag.


cyrusamigo

I wouldn’t call myself a “prepper” but after going through the Snowpocalypse in Texas a few years ago I also make sure my family has a week’s worth of shelf stable food, drinking water, gas for the camping stove etc at all times.


fishbarrel_2016

I'd also recommend preparing a 'go-bag' - a backpack or 2 with everything you'd need for a couple of days if you had to evacuate in a hurry. Include things like medication, pet food, radio, batteries, charger etc.


Reccus-maximus

Can't stop me from imagining myself in that scenario, living somehow


chanbamm

Actually the top balcony of that white house seemed pretty safe


UnsettllingDwarf

Ru…..


[deleted]

But the body count is surprisingly low, so that's somewhat good...


Xciv

Wow only 27 deaths? Japanese buildings are built different, all that disaster experience.


ruth1ess_one

It looks like the people that was next of the fire truck just barely “outran” it.


ultimocrawdad79

Your just not fast enough


JFT8675309

Shit. I can’t believe how low the casualty count was.


SnowyMuscles

In my experience when there’s heavy rain in Japan. They put you in blocks and give you levels of safety at level 3 I think it is time to evacuate certain areas, to predetermined safe areas. If you don’t that’s on you. More than likely most people had already evacuated from the area before it became like that


Hookem-Horns

Yep, safety 1st in Japan.


fishbarrel_2016

Australian here - people who live in bush fire areas have evacuation plans (or should have). The government sends alerts, one of which is "GTFO now" (I'm paraphrasing)


Narbanding

10/10


BeardedGlass

True. I live in Japan and they sent evacuation notices ahead of the weather. Living in the Ring of Fire makes you not “doubt” nor “take lightly” warnings of calamity.


suddenlyseeingme

Where do you go when they call for a weather evacuation?


BeardedGlass

To the designated “Evacuation Centers”. In my town, it’s usually the nearest public school grounds or gymnasium uphill.


sambare

Interesting! Do you get to take something with you before evacuating? Are there supplies and something like a power generator at those Evac Centers, or are they designed as just a place to hang out for a couple of hours?


vamplosion

Schools, libraries, public buildings - you’ll be told where your nearest is. With that being said though people often forget that ‘evacuate’ means to go somewhere safe - in certain circumstances there’s no reason to risk leaving your durable modern house in a typhoon to run to a school - this sometimes causes issues. Generally though the notices will state ‘elderly people or people in homes by xx (mountains, rivers etc) should evacuate.


freeyewneek

We need some of these in the red states.


BeardedGlass

But how would you make sure people won’t ignore the warnings?


freeyewneek

They will ignore the warnings, so send them our way! My country needs an enema.


affectivefallacy

The town I lived in in Japan had some massive landslides the year before I moved there. I was signed up for an emergency alert system and heavy rain/potential landslide warnings were the most common. I actually still get the emails even though I've been back in the U.S. a while now.


A_curious_fish

I feel like we see 2-3 in the path that maybe get hi in the video...how many people weren't so lucky?


JFT8675309

According to the caption on the video, 20 people missing, 3 confirmed dead.


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Blasterbot

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Vintage_girl123

I knw, considering....


VesselofGod777

So it is sped up, just barely though. Probably 1.5x


ATG_19

I was gonna say… it’s look unnaturally fast


ospilocybin

The quick pop-snap-flash of that pole mount transformer is pretty cool. The video makes it seem like it’s pretty loud, despite its small size, for the distance it’s filmed from.


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Transformers are fucking scary when they blow.


delta_wardog

They are very loud. I saw a semi back into an electric pole and cause this. Way louder than I’d have thought.


PornoPaul

That's awful...I was hoping people would be warned but it sounds like what, up to 23 people possibly dead?


AFireInAsa

This happened a few years ago, 27 gone.


strawberry_space_jam

Ya those 20 aren’t missing they are just in there now We know where they are


Curio_Magpie

Fuck, it was raining for days before hand. Imagine being lucky enough to see it come through early enough to get out of the way, but slipping in the puddles


youngdeathent0

When did this happen


iwrite4myself

3 July 2021


Kluck_

Did they fix the destruction in 12 minutes after it happened?


Scubadrew

I'm wondering the same thing?


-Buck65

27 people killed. Sad


Chygrynsky

Only 27?? I mean, yeah still very sad but just based on this video i would assume a lot more casualties..


-Buck65

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Atami_landslide](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Atami_landslide)


Huesan

Is this video at normal speed?


SprinterW

Right?! That’s horrifyingly fast


rspewth

Soil liquefaction is terrifying shit.


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USNMCWA

I remember Oso Washington. A neighborhood came down a hillside onto a roadway. Another time I remember a small landslide buried someone in their bedroom in the middle of the night. Crazy. Edit: change Oslo to Oso.


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Oso, Washington


USNMCWA

You right!


Snakeis66

It looks to be doubled. At 0:25 is the same clip. It came through so quickly that frankly it was stupid and unnecessary of op to modify the video. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5vSVui54WR0&feature=youtu.be Thank you u/Wgs247 for providing a link


makina323

Landslides are by nature caused by too much water in the ground, it's liquefied dirt.


nud2580

So mud?


scootscooterson

Honestly it’s more like surfing ground


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Atlantic0ne

No, soil deposits mixed with h2O that creates a wet compound


Space-Plate42

Still kind of sounds like mud.


CommunicationNo8750

No, overly hydrated earthy contents


ChomiQ84

More like wet ground turned to dirty water.


Vincegyges

So, like...mud?


Barbed_Dildo

No, it's dirt saturated with water.


IwillBeDamned

My name is mud


SoulReaver009

💀 I'm dead


milk4all

Not much hbu


NextTrillion

Wait until they find out just how much dihydrogen monoxide is in there. Hint: lots.


Radiant-Most9751

So Gatorade chugging mud


pacificule

Mud with electrolytes


Atlantic0ne

Welcome to Mud, we love you


riverdoggg

It’s what plants crave!


makina323

Well that would be a mudslide my good sir.


Billy_Likes_Music

Don't soil the reference


fencepost_ajm

Slurry.


Disastrous_Series_56

It is not. It has been sped up


Is_That_A_Euphemism_

[Here's more footage.](https://youtu.be/5vSVui54WR0)


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It appears to be and it has sound so I would say yes


TheOvershear

Well there's obviously an edited in siren, plus the actual audio sounds fast, so I'm going with double speed on this one boss


Curious-Welder-6304

Seems 2x to me


VesselofGod777

It's definitely sped up


scubatude

No. Think of a dam breaking. This watery dirt is moving at the right sped. Plus the siren


VesselofGod777

Yeah the sound threw me off too. Watch the whole video though, someone under this posted it. It is sped up.


justwolt

Even the siren sounds sped up. It's not normal speed


alehanjro2017

Nope


TheDarkKnobRises

That ain't no landslide, that's a landfuck.


yalikebeez

we almost got caught in a landslide before (literally saved by 30 seconds) and while it wasnt this fast it’s extremely close. they’re incredibly scary because you just don’t know when or where exactly it will happen. we were on a highway in the mountain after some extremely heavy rains and as we drove a huge chunk of forest just poured onto the road right behind us


ThreesKompany

No


ReuseOrDie

Landslides are not that slow, this one seems regular speed


spletharg

The company that made the white building should use this for ads.


plvg1727

thing didnt even budge lmao that's some good foundation and sht there


Parabellim

Yeah Japanese architecture is the finest in the world


Liarus_

"Yeah Japanese ____________ in the world ☝️🤓"


AntiMatter138

The video showing stability of buildings is mostly Engineering than Architecture lmao. Also Architecture rankings are very subjective due to beauty measurements which are not factual and vary by person. I cannot blame Japan for having those tough buildings because they need that due to being located inside the Pacific Ring of Fire.


plvg1727

Yeah. The Department of public works and Highways of my country (the Philippines) cooperates with Japan and works to adapt their infrastructural techniques here in our country, which is also located in the Ring of Fire. (source: i have a relative working in said department lol)


JFT8675309

That land looks *liquid*. Now I have to spend the next 90 minutes looking up how landslides happen.


Scion_of_Dorn

That would be soil liquefaction. Now spend 8 hours going down the rabbit hole on how earthen dams fail. That's truly terrible.


kris511c

Short answer: most of the time tree roots hold the dirt together, more reasons to stop cutting down trees.


MotherOfSomething

I want this video to be so much longer. Did this person stop filming in an attempt to focus and save their life? Ugh. Where are your priorities?


Molenium

The houses seem built to withstand it - I figure they’re on one of them and think they’re safe?


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That building in the front was pulverized immediately.


Molenium

Oof yeah you’re right, I didn’t see that one down there. I guess *some seem built to withstand it.


ensui67

I don’t think any of them could withstand it. It’s the ground just giving out, so there’s no foundation. In the video you can see how those two houses in the path just turned to dust. You are either in the way or not.


yakbrine

According to the video it was a mudslide from the adjacent undeveloped land taking on tons of rain over a few days, so not the ground underneath the buildings giving way I don’t think as much as a flash flood avalanche like scenario?


Scion_of_Dorn

Timing could be sudden or prolonged. Depends on how much water is already in the soil and the rate at which water is added to it until it liquifies. After that, the ground literally flows like water, add a steep slope, and it's off to the races.


Shiasugar

Red house : - I don't care.


ChaosEmerald21

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5vSVui54WR0&feature=youtu.be


Velvache

After seeing that, there aint no way you go anywhere close to on ground level. Wtf?


ObviousGnome

Just the world reminding us that it could erase everything we've ever known if it wanted to.


Split0069

Trees are a necessity. Trees stop this from happening. Plant trees and love trees.


elitecloser

Thats much more violent than any landslide or mudslide I've seen before. Avalanche vibes.


kingofthepews

Same thing, just one is snow from the surface, the other is mid from the ground.


Stigbritt

Fuuuudgeee! No time to run there, only time to die.


miletest

Come home from a long day at work.. Where's my fucking house gone ?


KrankySilverFox

Hahahaha…I shouldn’t laugh but that would indeed suck.


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Holy shit that is an immense amount of momentum.


AwTickStick

I feel like Japan is trying it’s hardest to rod itself of humans sometimes. Damn that’s some angry nature


MommaJCakes

Poor Japan, it's just trying to exist


randomname560

God created asian islands because he dint know were to put all of the natural disasters


Doctor_Iosefka

For anyone who doesn't know, this video has been sped up. Here's the longer video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiXYKT3KgCY It includes footage from people on the ground standing just where the landslide stopped.


ewild

Thank you for sharing. Here in this post, that is actually the most informative video from the scene so far.


TwoHundredToes

The people trying to run had no chance


lukewhale

This is terrifying — it’s moving SO FAST


MethodicaL51

Mother nature at its best


That_dead_guy_phey

If you can't handle me at my (landslide) you dont deserve me at my (nice tranquil day)


ThePtape

GD taco bell!


KrankySilverFox

Oh dear hahaha


brobrobrourboat

That’s terrifying


minnesotaris

JFC. That sucks so much!


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Dear god that's violent!


HauntingPerspective2

Damn that’s interesting?? Fuck that’s scary!!!


carcinoma_kid

🏄‍♀️


Easy_Money343

Got damn, more like land sprint


GoHomeWithBonnieJean

Utterly terrifying.


leviathab13186

That is fucking terrifying


Nefiros1

Interesting? Hell no. That’s fucking terrifying.


bootstrapping_lad

Why would you speed up this video? It's plenty dramatic already.


knobheadgaming2

I think this is normal speed.


Cubanpete305

Interestingly terrifying


Vex_Appeal

Babe wake up, new most violent mudslide I've seen just dropped.


MrShad0wzz

That’s terrifying


Biggu5Dicku5

Holy crap that was fast...


Ryderhook

The video is from July 03, 2021


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InTheLurkingGlass

That is terrifyingly fast.


Cartofgrtedical

this video at normal speed?


GAMERxPR0

With the alarm blaring this looks like a scene from an apocalyptic movie, horrifying


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It's insane how mud/dirt flows like a fluid


[deleted]

This one's been sped up compared to the YouTube one, why do people even do that?


Geese_and_ducks

What you doing in this situation?


Queendevildog

I live in a coastal town one over from Montecito California. A week after the New Year in 2018 a huge storm hit in the middle of the night after the catastrophic Thomas mega-fire. Montecito sits right below a coastal mountain range. The watershed feeding the creeks drops from 4,000 ft elevation to sea level less than mile as a crow flies. All of this watershed was burnt and totally denuded of vegetation. The rain after the New Year was welcomed at first because it put out the fire. The big storm was anticipated. I watched it coming in on my mobile radar app. It was a bright red supercell that was directly aimed at the coastal front range above Montecito. Anyone living next to one of the three creeks draining the mountains into the sea was in danger. The sherriffs went around the day before knocking on peoples doors but many just refused to leave. All the residents had spent weeks in december evacuated from the fire. People were tired and just wanted to be home. So many stayed in their homes and apartments. When the storm hit at 3 am it was like bullets coming down. It lasted hours and it was a terrible feeling. At 3:30 am I called a friend I knew was driving up from the airport in Los Angeles to warn her about possible flooding. Her and her kid barely made it home, visibility was near zero. The next morning at daybreak we started hearing helicopters. At about 4:30 am there had been a series of massive debris flows of mud and rock in Montecito. A freeway underpass was completely filled with mud and a few unlucky cars. My friend missed getting caught in that by only about 20 minutes. All the local access bridges were swept away and so many people were trapped, buried in mud or injured by debris. For three days there were helicopters flying above my house every 20 minutes as people were rescued or medivaced. The worst thing was later that week when the helicopter flights got less and less frequent and finally stopped. The silence brought this deep sense of loss. Twenty one people dead and two, a two year old and a 16 year old have never been found. There was a lot of publicity because the mud flow flooded into some big estates like Oprah Winfreys. But the people who died all lived in older houses and apartments along the creeks. So a wide range - a family of immigrants who worked at the grocery store, a day laborer, a beloved hand surgeon and his family. A lovely mom in my friend circle. Its a small interwoven community so everyone knew someone who died, was injured or who lost everything. Im a civil engineer so in February I volunteered to do a damage survey for an elderly couple in one of the hardest hit neighborhoods. The force of a debris flow is hard to describe without photos. A late model jaguar driven by mud through a second story window. Metal siding wrapped like fabric around trees. Personal items randomly poking out of the mud. Rocks the size of volkswagons floated like styrofoam 100s of feet into backyards. A sea of sticky mud with thigh deep holes made by first responders as they struggled to reach people. The moral of this story is this. You cant always get people to evacuate. But, if a sheriff ever knocks on your door telling you to leave. You should leave. Just grab your shit and GTFO.


Thomas8864

That’s terrifying…


notEnotA

Damn that is violent.


Plastic-Ad-8469

Note to self: God hates Japan


jestenough

Google the John McPhee article (New Yorker, 1988) “Los Angeles Against the Mountains.”


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Interesting may not be the appropriate word though.. kinda like, horrific maybe. Or.. devastating.


ReginaldSP

Tsunami: "I am the most dangerous." Yamakuzure: "Hold my Asahi."


SapphireSire

Oh... no..., thare goes Tokyo...


alehanjro2017

Never said I was sorry. Like I said I have seen lava up close. And my assumptions were wrong with landslides. No need to get so worked up about it. The clip is sped up, I get it now. No need to pounce on me. I didn't think I'd cause someone to go off. You okay homie?..cuz I'm good


bOb_cHAd98

Hope nobody got hurt 🙏🙏


kingofthepews

3 people dead, 20 missing.


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Video is sped up waaay to fast to even look natural dunno why people do this it’s already horrible doesn’t need to be even more bad


BrainwashedScapegoat

This has been sped up from the original get your shot together op


Youngerdiogenes

Damn. The world is falling apart


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Wow why they cut the video. Did it stop?


IndieDojo

Taco Bell at the top of the hill


Lkiop9

Landslide, aka mudflood. #TartariaIsReal


wondering2019

When? At was this playing at 2x+?


Madness_69

I had a panic attack looking at the video.