10 Massive Rockfalls Caught on Camera 

Let this be a serious lesson to us all. If you think there's about to be a landslide, film in landscape.

That house with the damage paths might be the most amazing visual perspective ive ever seen on these events.

As a mountaineer I know that a rock fall first announces itself acoustically. That's why it is required that any helmet leaves the ears open. However when driving a car it is not possible to hear these early warning signs. When the rocks become visible it is mostly too late.

Man the most amazing part is that the thumbnail wasn't clickbait! So refreshing. Thanks! Great video!

Props to Maureen and her husband for holding the phone still and not screaming during filming #4. 👏👏👏

My husband and I were walking a country road and we heard a crack and looked in the direction of the crack then heard another crack as we watched a huge oak tree crashed to the ground…and it was so heavy the road shook beneath our feet .. that is a once in a lifetime experience.

I like the way you indexed the film vignettes with a map.

The sheer power a giant, solid boulder moving at like 80 mph is just astounding. Truly terrifying.

Working on clearing steel catchment nets in Cape Town and having personally almost lost my life to a man sized boulder moving at about 80kph, I can testify to the incredible sound of just one roaring "smallish" rock. You hear it most time way before you see it. Rolling thunder that penetrates your core. Imagine the actual sound of a good chunk of the mountain side coming down.

That mans mustache is amazing!

In Frank, Alberta (Canada) there are the remnants of a landslide which occurred more than 100 years ago when 90 million tons of rock separated from a mountain and then rolled out for several kilometers, obliterating part of the town and tragically burying the inhabitants. The site has been preserved to this day, and is breathtaking to see the scale of it. There are boulders there the size of 3-bedroom houses. Incredible.

That house that was partially destroyed by the rock was something else. The fact of the rock just stopping short of the main part of the house is crazy. On the plus side they now have a huge solid shield that will help protect the house from future landslides.

Never underestimate Mother Nature, she redecorates different then we do😅😅

My only comment is there are so many channels and people doing these kinds of 10 most, or whatever... and you really are good at it. I don't know how hard it would be to find the video footage that you do... and that is tough enough I'm sure. But your narrative is so good, and presentation so on track as it were... I'll subscribe this time. I think I've watched about 5 of your videos, and maybe one more before signing off. But you really are good at this.

I was once caught in rock slide in Kashmir. Me and my brother were driving and suddenly rocks started falling contains huge boulders all around us. We stopped and ran back. Miraculously both of us were unscathed and safely ran back amongst those falling rocks. I can never ever forget those horrifying moments. Our jeep was hit by some rocks after we left it.

WOW!! Amazing footage!! The narration was factual, unemotional in detail, & enhanced the video without competing with the scenes!! Good to know no one was injured!

Those people in the first clip made the ULTIMATE best decision in taking out their phones and start filming because THE CAMERAMAN NEVER DIES

I have a little personal experience of this, also from China. This was in Zhejiang Province in an area with medium sized mountains. I was on a bus and the slide must have happened less than an hour before we arrived. There were about 30 cars in front of us, waiting for the road to get cleared. The rocks covered the road and the total slide was perhaps 100 m end to end. Within 30 minutes after the bulldozer/crawler and the excavator arrived, they had cleared one side, allowing us all to pass through. The guy directing the crew told me that this was pretty common in the area. The type of rock there is inherently unstable and especially after several days of rain, will start to slide. To him it wasn't a big deal, more like a nuisance.

Every one of these gives me the chill. Imagine what have not been caught on camera.

It's refreshing to get video commentary that has a bit of humor and wit to go with the sinister soundtrack - well done!

Geological weathering beautifully portrayed. Owner millions of years, this is what happened to the Appalachian mountains. They used to be higher than the Himalayan mountains. Same thing for the Rockies. Same thing for all the mountains that have evidence geologically ancient or oceanic crustal rocks at the top. Neat!

One of the greatest disasters that I observe from all the footage is how many people these days are filming in portrait instead of landscape.

I live near Sausalito CA and drive that stretch fairly frequently. Good to see an actual rock slide to remind us that the signs are accurate. But it wasn't as big as his car though, was it. Still, he made it through pretty good, no smashed windows or worse!

i love that underworld is giving actual information about the events in their videos. damn decent journalism to be found here... is refreshing

Hiking in Namibia’s Fish River Canyon & probably the 5th time around on 86km -56mi, opened ended hike. This is one of the best hikes I’ve done as one sleeps under the stars therefore ruining all other hikes! First night in, our party of 8 wasn’t disturbed by the rock fall that came crashing down. I cringed as the noise continued & really amazing that no one else heard it when quizzed the next morning.

Increíble, lo que hace la madre naturaleza. Gracias por el video. Saludos a la distancia

This is why in the rock stabilization world we work/climb side by side and never above each other

Clip #2 Commendable video footage and awesome job to the guy(s) who filmed AND saved all those people from certain disaster 💯

That Italian farmhouse is terrifying! I’m not sure I would sleep well in that house. It amazing that rock ended up within feet of the previous slide, I thought they both came down together.

The irony of a landslide actually deterring an anti-landslide project...😅😬

There's something satisfying about the sound of rock fall

I once lived near the confluence of the Van Duzen and Eel rivers in Northern California, in a town called Rio Dell. There is a large bend in the Eel river as it passes through town (thus the name Rio Dell). At the time that I lived there, the North Coast Railway was still running trains along the river. Whenever they followed the bend through town, they inched along very slowly, due to an unstable steep wall of rock and soil overhanging the railroad tracks. In fact, there had been many rock/mud slides over the years that had to be cleared from the tracks in order to keep the trains running. Years ago, one such slide knocked a locomotive into the river, and at low water in the Summer you can still see the remains of this train.

I loved the contextual commentary. Relevant, informative and not overdone.

I live in a hilly area in the LA suburbs and we've had a few landslides in the pass years. The worst blocked one of major roads out of the area.

The camera man never dies is only true because we never get the footage from the ones that do.

Those two huge boulders that rolled over that house in Termeno Italy were truly hairy! Wish they caught them rollin’ on camera like they did in those China shots.

I live in Idaho where we had a huge landslide on Highway 55 a few years ago. Initially, the state figured it would cost 3 million to clear it away. At the end of the repair it cost 23 million dollars to clear and make safe. This was on highway 55 between Boise and McCall ID.

In 2017 whilst driving on south island Newzealand, we experienced reasonable sized rockfall/landslip with cwt sized boulders falling onto the road and we drove round them, later on the road was blocked.

Ronchi di Termeno. Have seen this Pic before. It is truly terrifying! The size of the one stopped at the back of the house - even more heart stopping! What I didn't realise, til now, was the significance of the 2nd (or actually 1st! ) Boulder in the scene! So... that must have been there BEFORE that House was built! And how old is that farm house? This suggests that the 1st boulder likely has been there for all of (local) living memory? But, still, whoever originally decided on where to build - MUST have looked at that boulder and then looked back up at the mountain behind... Wouldn't that have told them something!?! I've been on the Jammu to Srinigar Road to Kashmir (or the road that existed before this one was built) it was 1979. A terrifying road with lots of hairpin bends that the small bus we were in had to do 3 > 5 point turns to get around, with tyres half hanging over crumbling edges over steep drop offs, and lot's of evidence of previous rockfalls. And evidence of why transiting this road was a seriously bad idea, with multiple crumpled wrecks of vehicles below! We made it - but looking back: what seemed 'normal' and 'reasonable' back then - now seems like insanity. "Oh the ignorance of youth!" The local people believe the mountains have their own Living Spirit and, looking at this vision; I have to agree. It was 'telling' the Tunnelling crew; "You want to move rock? Let me show you what REALLY 'moving rock' looks like!" 🤣😆😅

In mountains tall, where echoes talk, A dance of danger, a silent shock. From heights above, where stillness mocks, Nature's ballet of falling rocks.

The sound is incredible as the mountains come down.

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Thank you for these amazing stories .

One of the biggest rockslides to ever occur was the one that buried part of the town of Frank in Canada. 82 million tons of rock came down the mountain.

Amazing videos of landslides!! They are more common than you think! Here in Oregon where I live we have our highways carved into Mountains east west south and North with annual rainfall about 60 in or so we get them every year and highways closed as well for periods at a time! Just hope my luck doesn't run out!

#5 in Italy was absolutely nut (I honestly thought the thumbnail was going to end up being clickbait). I’m glad the other boulder didn’t hit the house (damn close, though) but also, wow, that house is situated in a gorgeous spot overlooking that valley.

Thanks for video.

I was driving through Wyoming, it was a place where they cut through the side of a hill. So a steep rocky cliff going straight up on my right. All of a sudden it sounded like a gun went off right next to me. Little splinters of glass all over me. A rock that i assume a grass hopper landed on or something like that just enough to cause it to drop. The plastic sheet between the 2 layers of glass held so the rock didn't go through the windshield. Scared the crap out of me. Now im paranoid every time i drive through hills like that.

These were some amazing videos. The sheer and elemental power of nature. Thank you so much for this. I must say, though, that I really hate the treatment - I don’t know what to call it - where the sides of the picture are blocked or cut off, resulting in a narrow view. This sometimes completely obliterates the view of the sides, other times it just blurs the sides out of focus. This technique is in common use these days, but I find it very annoying. Does anyone else feel that way?

It’s a skill to make people laugh, but it’s a talent to make them laugh at life’s oops moments. You’re truly talented!

The rolling stones are no joke!

You missed the #1 landslide. The Mount St. Helens land slide

That one just south of Bolzano, Italy is of particular interest to me. I used to drive to the Milan-Verona-Venice region on a regular basis. That scar was quite apparent from the Autostrada. I even took a small group of interested souls up to the house that got half-pummelled for a closer look, about 4 months after the event. Except for the one that stopped right at the house, I'm pretty sure the ones that plowed the house, are still there.

You would presume all those trees would stop falling rocks, wouldnt even expect that!😮 good to know! G I ad you posted videos!❤

Great compilation. Thanks!

The stuff nightmares are made of. In the Pacific NW we have had numerous mud and rock slides resulting in many deaths, including a whole family. I dodge a similar big rock fall, though, much bigger, like the first one(No. 10) presented here while climbing Mt.Hood in Oregon.

I lived in OR. when there was a big land slide it took me 3 months and a lot of looking but I found in total $48, 790 of gold pieces a lot of the slide fell into the river.

I rarely ever saw a road sign that warns of falling rock hazards, but after seeing this video I will pay much more attention to them.

When I worked heavy construction at a rock quarry this used to happen to me 5 to 10 times a year. I ran a 100 year old steam shovel, all steel cable and lever operated, the kind you used to see in kids books, but this one was converted over to a screaming Detroit diesel. We had a 90 foot blue stone ledge and we'd have a blast about once every year or two. I'd fill a truck with the blasted rocks who'd drive it up to our crusher and screening plant. As you slowly chew away at the bottom of the 50 foot pile of stone, you'd eventually come across one the size that sunk the titanic, if you were lucky it was flat and would just slide down and hit the machine, unless it decided to flip end over end or roll down, then my cage would literally get rocked! Over time you learn how to dig a guide so you can control where the stone goes, sometimes it would roll down and I was able to catch it in the machines bucket and drop it off to the side. They could be up to the size of an SUV. You'd also learn over time when the ledge was about to let go and predict witch side would go next. I didn't have to deal with the general public, it was a beautiful area right next to a bird sanctuary and a killer view during lunch breaks! Loved that Job. Hated the owner's son, but loved the job and all the old timers I worked with.

In the UK we have the Snake Pass every year in winter snow slush rain there is always landslides my Late Hubs and I were going to Sheffield and used the pass within minutes after we passed there was a massive land slide .. Another time again in the Car with Hubs and I said that doesn't look right .. Red Rock formation with an old Cotton Mill on its highest point a few hours later the Red Rock came crashing down onto a few cars thankfully non were hurt ... My Town is Stockport Cheshire UK northwest and is largely Red Rock Based! 💜🙏💜

That part of the 101 seems risky every time we drive through it, much of that span of the freeway is built through the hills lining the bay and some parts are extremely steep, thank goodness my boy adam is ok

These drops in the bucket really make me appreciate the Chicxulub meteor.

I love the falling rocks warning signs. As if there’s something you can do as a driver.

A couple was crushed to death in a rock slide not far from where I used to live. The entire hillside for several hundred metres came into the road. The slide began probably .5 km up the mountain. Near Terrace BC Canada around the year 2009, if I remember correctly.

This happened to a friend. He was driving his friend's corvette in Montana when a rock the size of a house zoomed by just in front of the car.

Just east of Glenwood springs there's a trail in called 'No Name'. If you're tough enough to hike that first half mile you come to a level place that has a boulder the size of a two car garage. It's so out of place you can't miss it. If you look west, and up the mountain, you can see the path it took coming down. I haven't been there since 1990, and I'll not be able to go again. Too bad, no pictures. I wish I could have seen it come down, or at least heard it.😮😮

what the most amazing is the fact how much faith those people into the integretity of the mountain/wall right next to them when there's literally a landslide in front of them...

It never fails to amaze me that when folk are faced with a rock fall/mud slide they have this magical piece of equipment that protects them, a mobile phone. If you watch the people filming they walk towards the danger, I’d he running he’ll for leather in the opposite direction, why don’t they.

When I was 8 years old, my friend and I dug a massive hole on the side of a steep hill. We would go out and dig the hole a little deeper every day. For two weeks. We made sure to leave enough of a “ramp” on one side so we could climb out, as the hole was around 8 feet deep. It started to rain as we were digging. All of the sudden the sides started to collapse in. I don’t know how we got out-it was pure luck. When it was over, the surrounding earth had completely filled the hole in a matter of five seconds or so. I still get queasy thinking about how both of us could have been buried alive. This hole was far from anyone’s home. I don’t think we would have ever been found. After letting all that really soak into our 8 year old brains, we quickly started to re-dig the hole. I consider myself a permanent idiot for that naive decision.

The shear power of these events are stunning, once you caught in a landslide of those magnitude, there's no escaping your dead

A huge boulder fell in the road in the Appalachians back when I was a kid. It was wider than the lane in the road and taller than my school bus. (I know this because we had to drive around it.) It took a few days for crews to get it removed. I guess they had to blast it apart. That thing was big. Fortunately, it fell overnight and didn't hit anyone.

Having been raised in the mountains of Tennessee, I have seen the results of rockslides all my life.

At 10:11 - you can see the 'rock' that tumbled down about 20/30 years or possibly more ago sitting right next to the recent one. You'd have to have rocks in your head to actually build where they did.

Good commentary on this one!

That #5 video was incredible. Especially the gigantic boulder that stopped within feet of the side of the house. 😮😳 Good luck getting home owners insurance now.😉

I can't believe the uber driver actually pulled over and stopped, as if he was in a fender-binder, it would seem to me to expect more rocks or a landslide to occur and to get the heck out of there.

Remember if you are fearing for your life in a dangerous situation, start filming because the cameraman never dies.

I'm amazed and flabbergasted at how close people stay and watch such a thing. The second I was aware something like that was going to happen I would be running or driving as far in the opposite direction as I could get. There is no way to tell what direction a boulder will fly or roll, or bounce, how much of the side of of the hill/mountain horizontally will fall. Yeah, it's cool to see, but I would RUN !!!

5:00 the tunnel vision is just amazing. There was like no reaction until he was hit. Not even a flinch to rocks appearing before hand.

This video was so well put together, it shows your dedication!

Sometimes you need fire to prevent fire same goes for rock slides do a little blasting to make small landslides so you dont get giant boulders falling down on your house

There was a story out of Estes Park, CO where a rock came out of no where and hit and killed someone in the middle of town. Turns out it was a rock that came off of one of tall mountains by the town.

Devil's slide highway 1 south of SF scary as hell. I had to drive it often and hated it. One side 300 ft straight down on the other, unstable shell and rocks. Also the road bed dropped 6 feet as if a cake slicer had cut it on both ends

There are giant rocks falling in our direction. Should we run for our lives? Nah... lets just get a good video recording of this and post it on our social media so that we can get many likes.

4:20 A rock "smaller" than his car. There.. fixed it for you 🙂

Uber driver's reaction should be #1 lol. He knows the cameraman never dies

Salt Lake City, Utah, April or May of 2020, probably around 6:00 AM. My girlfriend and I were heading to a doctor's appointment. She was in her third trimester of pregnancy at the time. Directly to our left and stretching above us was the 'Grand America' hotel, across the street it's aptly named little sister, 'Little America'. I had spotted less than half a dozen people in the last half hour, and no storefront lights on, other than a coffee shop. At the middle of the block a low rumbling began, accompanied by a slight vibration under our feet. Seconds later, it crescendoed to the sound of a rock slide under the sidewalk. We had stopped walking and were holding each other steady, comprehending the situation. It almost seemed calmer for the span of a breath, before the entire street began violently shaking. The ground felt like one of those amusement park rides where the floor moves from side to side, except this was the entire street. It looked like it slid a whole three feet to the left, then another three feet to the right. It was like someone was using the city block for a game of tug-of-war. Sparks flew from a transformer box on a telephone pole as all car alarms in the area went off at once. The whole thing lasted about 30 seconds, the alarms were still on after the ground had finished it's tantrum. The most ironic part is I'm from California, I haven't ever felt an earthquake, and when moving to Utah I thought I would need to worry even less! Guess not 🤷

Upvote for Adam's mustache. 🥸

Definitely some scary stuff to witness up close. I saw one a few years ago in the Appalachian Mountains when I was travelling a backroad in the Blue Ridge section in Virginia. I was a safe enough distance away, but thought "If I was under that section of road, I'd have been screwed". All you can do is standby and watch.

My friends family was traveling over a mountain pass and their car was struck by a rockfall. His mother was killed and he was seriously injured.

Avoid All "101" "202" "303" "404" Mountain Roads Around The World, OR YOU GET LAND SLIDED ON😂

Cameraman never dies 😂😂

I remember a giant one here in Southern California, it was caught on tape too. It was raining heavy for a week after a bad fire season & the whole hillside came down on a neighborhood of homes, killed a few people too unfortunately. The mud covered the homes

Thank God for keeping me, being that I traveled all 48 States in America for 10 yrs and never encountered any adversed situations while traveling thru massive mountain terrain.

These would mostly be avoidable if the roads did get placed in the first place, almost all these have a small slide right above the road where the wall is and then it turns into a major stress for the mtn above.

The number of people that just stand or sit there while this is happened is astounding. The one guy that I did see get out of way @8:33 before the rock barely missed him almost got smashed between the trucks backing up.

Well, that is weird- I was caught in a rock fall on the Jammu to Kashmir Road 30years or so ago. It does make you jump when the bus is being hit by boulders the noise is incredible. I saw a heap of mountain slide down into the road and bl9ock it entirely. Luckily f loads of soldiers were also inconvenienced and they just threw the rocks n soil off the other side of the road and thus we were able to continue our terrifying journey. The original tunnel was open for traffic only once the Army had stopped using it to transport its gear- this must be a new anti-Pakistan tunnel.

In 1983, there was a landslide on the Pacific Coast Hwy near San Luis Obispo. My neighbors husband was a D8 driver, D8s being the largest earth movers at that time. His job was to clear the hwy so it could reopen since that road is one of CA’s most significant tourist attractions. He began to move the landslide from the highway and the disturbance caused another landslide that carried him & his gigantic machine to the bottom of the Pacific where he will sleep with the fishes for all eternity.

That Van Duzen slide is at a famous spot on the river called "swimmers delight" I live a short drive away. Humboldt County is known for slides and mass wasting events.

I would imagine that they would be able to put up thick steel netting, along highways, traffic ways, And around areas that have houses near potential rock slide areas. Even preventive maintenance such as blasting.