Massive Cliff Collapse on to San Diego Beach 

Incredible footage. Don’t think I’d be brave enough to walk up to the base like that so soon after that display!

The layer of dark sand that pushed out at the bottom of the slide was what started the whole movement. All of the California coast is sea bottom sediments that have been pushed up by earthquake movements. When heavy rains come, like they have done this year, those layers get saturated and begin to come apart. This happened on a much larger scale on the Palos Verdes Peninsula in the Los Angeles area. It was an upscale neighborhood that started out using septic tanks and drainfields instead of building sewers to carry the sewage away. On top of that, all of the estate homes had irrigated landscaping. All of the extra water caused an ancient landslide to reactivate and a couple of square miles of land started to move down into the surf. They spent billions of dollars to install drains and put in a sewer system in order to save the fancy homes. It still moves if they get enough rain, but not very fast or far. Eventually the ocean will take it all back from the land and the people will have to leave or drown.

Stunning how the hillside pushed up the sand from below. Wow!

WOW, WOW, WOW!! How many times I've walked by that beach and never saw a collapse like that… So glad to have got it on film here… Thanks for sharing…

What is really amazing is the uplift of the ground at minute 3

This is a MUCH BETTER version than the dingleberry who couldn’t turn their phone sideways and film wide to catch this one-time event!

It's beautiful when you see how small we are compared to the wonders of Mother Nature

Thank you for NOT making this a dum dum vertical video👍 I love you and you don't suck!

All the canyon trails that lead through cliffs to the sea are gone now. We use to take them down to the beach in the ‘69’’. “Too every season turn turn”

I want to trust someone as much as this man trusted the spot he was standing in.

This guy is the one in the horror movies that hears a weird sound and immediately investigates it.

Amazing footage - you absolutely did the right thing by stopping recording - and going somewhere safe / that cliff was totally unstable

Watched this footage last night while a bit drunk. Woke up today and honestly thought I'd dreamt it.

Excellent video.

Scenes like this really make you think about the idea of “permanence”!

Those trees on the edge must be absolutely bricking it! 👀

At the base of the rock fall, you can see the dark ground welling up, as if some pressure or seismic fault has happened. Perhaps the sub-ground pocket of water is pushing it up. I have not seen that before.

Seen the same video different person. This is the best video. Other person kept moving the camera side to side I heard the rocks falling but didn't see it falling

Read up on what happened in August 2019 in Encinitas. 3 people, all from one extended family, died when a beach bluff collapsed onto a beach not all that far from here.

CA is just compacted sand dunes along the coast. You can see it as you fly over. Nothing should be built on any shoreline cliffs. Very unstable. Up in Humboldt too.

El paisaje que conocemos desaparece cada día frente a nuestros ojos, como se pueden reir?

Amazing that the weight of it are pushing the Beach up!!💯

That was so cool to watch. Not living in an area that experiences this kind of thing I have a couple of questions. First how did they know this was about to happen so that they could be there to watch this and video it? Second is this something that happens regularly? Third, and this may be a dumb question, but has anyone found any cool dinosaur bones or any other fossils when something like this happens? And lastly what causes things like this to happen? Thank you for sharing. It was very interesting.

My favorite hiking/walking spot! 😢 Does anyone know if the steps to Torrey Pines Glider port are still intact?

Great video. I thought the camera man was on a boat. All the swaying back and forth was making me seasick. lol.

Much better recording! Ty for sharing,and turning your phone sideways 🙃. Fossils ? Gemstone?

Has there been any more activity there lately??…incredible footage…Xoxoxoxoxo 👍👍👍👍👍

Is anyone else noticing about the 3:20 mark the black area at the base rising from ocean level to a considerable height. This cliff collapse is not due to the rain there's probably a plate shift that caused that ground to swell. I think something larger is about to happen

Interesting to watch. Looks as if a lot has crumbled away and fallen, over time...🤔. How often does this much come down ? 🤔 What causes it ? Rain ? Earthquakes ? Thank you for sharing the event here 😊. Best Wishes from England 🇬🇧😊💙🦉🌹🌎💙🇬🇧

Those rocks were there for thousands of years or perhaps millions of years and now they will spend another thousands or millions of years in that other position.

When mountains crumble to the sea, there will still be you and me...

Great video but it sounds like a bunch of little school girls screaming.

Impresionante y extraño, porque se derrumbó? No parece un lugar inestable

Must be seismic tremors going on down under the fault line. 😮😮

Hmmmm that camerawork is smooth.. TOO smooth...

For the rest of his life, That guy is going to remember the time he sang the LAMEST version of Highway to the Danger Zone that anyone has ever heard.

I heard abt this but I wish I watched this earlier so I could go looking for it. Hopefully the pile is still there.

awesome camera work

There had to be something seismic going on there for it to just to keep going that long. Dangerous spot to be.

Greatview everyone staying around recording what if the whole thing collapse... me and my mate climb down that Cliff two years ago in March

It looked like lava again! So cool! That would have been a wild shot had someone with a drone record!

that damn squirrel!

@ 5:47 to 6:04 the flat beach sand took on a grid looking pattern.

Insane!!!

Those cliffs look like solid rock. But they are sand.

My dad sent me this (so cool!!!)

I completely understand to each there own. I hear in the background a number of people laughing when big chunks of the hill start falling down. I personally don't see anything humorous or funny or laughable about something like that. It's a powerful force of nature and I fail to see any humor in it. I don't know if anyone noticed it or not, but did anyone see the ground at the base of the hill uplift out of the ground at the same time a big chunk of the hill was collapsing? That would have been very scary to me if I had been standing there. That is probably why the hill was collapsing because it was being uplifted from beneath the ground.

When the earth decides to get involved in the whole renovation craze…. Property Brothers: “We can move the kitchen to this side of the house and rotate the bathroom to….” Earth: “Here. Hold my beer…” 😂

What kind of rock ? Anyone?

Nice this version of the video is actually horizontal and doesn't have a stoner/surfer dude going "whowow" Edit: Nevermind you can hear them in the background.

Omg I can't believe that you caught that on amera 😮.

Eh, can we surf it???

So if you're on mobile you can zoom in on something by swiping outwards with two digits on the screen. There's a lot going on and zooming in let's you enjoy it a bit more.

This couldn't have happened in the United States, no one ran up close to take a selfie

Spectacular

Anyone else notice the guy on the triangular peak?

The earth is moving for sure

What's the big white thing at the end? Dinosaur bone?

4:07 That’s a surfer laugh

Looks pretty safe to go back up now.

Imagine the GEM AND MINERAL FINDS in all that!

What makes it do this?

Better get ready for the big one Cali. It could happen any moment now.

it's okay👍🏼 there's some dirt from Ohio the train is delivering to fill in the cracks

Thank goodness there were no home nearby.

' did feel earthquake or not... magma is a push up the shore land

That looks like the you are a half naked guy from another video 😅👍 thanks for better footage

Спасибо за зрелище👍🤝🇷🇺

Gravity ALWAYS wins.

If you found this impressive, try visiting Turkey. An entire region was leveled.

I’ll lie down at the base when life gets that slow.

Good

Darn, I wanted to move there and build a house up there.....Scratch that idea.

And then Godzilla appeared.

You wouldn't catch me dead walking anywhere close to that rubble pile THAT soon after 100+ton chunks of earth came tumbling down 😅

Thank you for publishing this. The other videographer needs to learn more about filming landscapes in landscape mode! This is not a knock on him. I had to learn the same lesson. I thank you both for sharing this with the world. Stay safe!

Jetty!

Почему отложения не горизонтальные, а вертикальные, рушится как постройка..... 🧐

Much like watching a glacier calf

WOW 😳

And that kids is how sand gets made. 👍

Pretty standard stuff...until that huge dark bulge grows out from the very foot of the cliff. THAT was fascinating and unusual.

Prime example of gravitationally assisted erosion & master class on how scree forms a talus

Somebody watching the chosen and willed the mountain to move

Does anyone notice the bird?

Any hobby gold prospectors in the area will be there the next day taking samples...

Why the laughing?

I'll wait till the heatings on...

Thats not rock. Its like sand with a few stones in it !!

Time to look for thunder eggs and agates!

Maybe if we get lucky the whole state will slide in!!!

Strange, no fossile hunters out there, you would never find a better opportunity

Tiktok be like😂

Like the state falling apart…..

😂😂❤❤

Excellent, thanks KentAmeneyro. Best watched with the sound off - to suppress those tedious insecure titterings of "Oh my GOoDness" responses - just say "Oh My God" and be done with it. Also, just a tip - we viewers can't see outside the image frame, but you can, so it's a more enjoyable and informative view (for us) if the camera is fixed stationary so we continue to concentrate on what's in the frame, rather than you panning away from what we're trying to observe to what you can outside the frame.

Just shows California is going to the ocean

ITS CLIMATE CHANGE!!!!!!!

That could spoil you sun tan a bit

' hope want to see the a real big eruption volcano open and lava spread out and melty lava on the shore beach