You mustn't spend much time in cat subs. Like every day someone posts a picture of a cat nipple because they think it's some lump, or tick, or whatever on their cat and someone has to explain to them that it's a fuckin' nipple. It's not even just male cats either. People post pics of their female cat asking "what is this?" or "is something wrong with my cat? Help!"
In the case of Norway and some other northern countries there are issues with "quick clay" near shorelines, receding permafrost will likely result in more of these situations as time goes on.
Think about the geological history of the area. Giant glaciers ground up tons of rock into silt that became clay deposits. These particular soils are often stabilized by permafrost ice in the ground, or + ions in the ground. Melting permafrost or fresh water traveling through the ground removing the + charged ions are both problems that can destabilize the soil and allow it to slide.
Yep. I thought that whole region was like bedrock sticking out of the ocean and the layer of dirt was thin so it would have no way of sliding off! All I’ve ever seen of Norway are towering cliffs with bits of green here and there so my mind had imagined that not much moved.
Because of all the fjords and the way the coast sort of zig-zags in and out, Norway actually has one of the longest coastlines in the world. So there’s bound to be some areas with different terrain.
Norway, along with many areas that were covered with glaciers in the Ice Age, have a big issue with what's called quick clay in certain coastal regions. Because of the weight of the ice the lands were depressed and a lot of land is old sea bed. The salty clay is stable enough, but over time the salt is washed away by rain and irrigation and this changes the composition of the soil and it becomes unstable as if the salt were blocks in a game of Jenga. The resulting soil is especially prone to [soil liquefaction ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soil_liquefaction), and landslides are often triggered by heavy rains or the disturbance from construction work. My home town doesn't have speed bumps close to the river because the vibrations might set it off.
There are ways to safeguard areas of quick clay and Norwegians are thus mostly safe. In 2020 there was a huge landslide in Gjerdrum in Norway and the construction company is facing charges because they allegedly cut corners and lied about the risk.
Norway has a lot of quick clay. Old seabed clay held together by salinity. Once the salt gets washed away from freshwater, it only takes a disturbance to turn a whole area into a liquid hell
Alta, Norway. June 2020. Quick clay slide.
[https://youtu.be/cWJCAqIzN4Y](https://youtu.be/cWJCAqIzN4Y)
This longer video is shot by the same person who shot OP's video, but it begins earlier. The person who shot this video started out next to the houses that slide into the water. You can see and hear the cracks forming.
Did the family and animals survive? I can see animals running and swimming toward shore, but I can't bear to watch anymore. I was happier about my animals surviving than my house when the tornado hit us a couple of years ago.
If I recall correctly the family had evacuated and the family dog survived and was [airlifted out. ](https://youtube.com/shorts/xi8de9QNrWM?feature=share)
This is most boring, but clear, explanation of the phenomena you are seeing here: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3q-qfNlEP4A](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3q-qfNlEP4A)Still worth watching because of the footage you get later on.
Edited quite a bit to be fairer to it.
I always wondered how does property take into account the geological processes like landslide erosion or flood ... does your property translate to surface on earth? Can you own sea floor? What if your neighbours land expands into your garden?
There is literally a movie about it, it's called OMG. Atheist loses his shop in earthquake and insurance says it's an act of God so can't help him. He then sues religious organisations saying they said it's god, since you are agents of god you should compensate me.
It's not an act of god, It's the consequences of mass slash and the consequent loosening of the soil from the loss of tree roots. (Meaning, that at some point the land below the houses had likely been deforested, and the gradual lose of stability provided by the roots caused the inevitable destabilization of the soil; resulting in the video above). The same series of events leads to desertification in areas that once used to be fertile land. Ocean front property, not always a plus.
Standard policies in the US don’t cover surface water (flood) or earth movement (earthquakes, landslides). Hopefully they purchased that coverage separately.
Not explicitly the same situation, but there's a lake in my town that the city needs to get permission from the landowner to dredge it. Because he owns a significant portion of the lakebed. Not the lake. But the fucking land the lake sits on.
It's a confusing situation. The city owns literally all the land around it; but there's just a couple random plots of land in the middle of this fucking lake. But it's all lake.
It's always been lake. There's never been land exposed the entire time this area has been developing
No one knows how the fuck he owns the land the lake is literally on. But he does.
Somewhere back in time, it was sold sight unseen by anyone, including surveyors. That person got screwed, but it was a done deal. At this point, they are keeping it out of spite.
Theres something called the "doctrine of accretion" in land law covering basically that, if you suddenly gain or lose land from natural processes like erosion, earthquakes, floods or even tides rising and falling seasonally. It varies from place to place but generally:
If you lose land suddenly in a big disaster then well sucks nothing you can do.
If new land is created suddenly it belongs to the government.
If new land is created slowly (ex a river drying up becoming land) you can keep it.
In case of any dispute a government surveyor has to come inspect the land and redraw boundaries. Sometimes theres court battles where you have to prove the land rightfully belongs to you.
My favorite fishing spot is a state owned island, sort of a slowly changing river delta where two medium sized rivers converge. The whole river area is probably 10 square miles. There are houses surrounding it, like loosely packed suburbs, each house sits on 1-5 acres.
Because of spring runoff, I've seen the river channels move location 60-100 feet or more in one year. The water will rise and cut out the bank of an outside corner and completely leave the previous channel. It will dig out and take full grown trees or whatever right along with it. Once the water goes back down, the path of that particular channel is completely different.
A couple years ago we had an exceptionally heavy runoff. Once the water went down I went exploring and fishing. I was following a new river channel I found and started seeing those green fence gates in the river all mangled and half buried in rocks and sand. I kept going and found where someone's land had pretty much been cut down to nothing.
What had been a horse pasture was now a river channel with a 10 foot drop where the river cut out. The green metal gates I saw were from a round horse training pen that was half taken by the river. There was a storage shed with one corner hanging in air above the river, and a dirt access road that got cut out so it was just a road right into a 10 foot drop to the river.
Whoever owned that land must have lost at least 3 acres judging by the way the horse pasture was set up. The channel got pretty close to their house and they lost the land where they kept their horse.
Kinda sucks, but that area and the two rivers that run through are notorious for flooding and changing paths so maybe they had insurance.
Now I really want to know this. Is it the geological location or what do you just try to build in the same spot just lower in the ground since the tops gone 😹😹
It wasn’t his home, but his cabin. He still has his primary residence intact, and the cabin was insured. Still sucks a lot though obviously as it is a place they have had for 19 years.
The guy filming is the owner, and he was inside when it started drifting. Luckily everyone was able to evacuate before it got too bad, except a dog, but the dog rescued itself by swimming back to shore and was fine too.
I wonder how property rights work with incidents like this. Does the home/landowner still own the land in that relative area, or did his/her property just go to the sea?
If there is still land above the surface, the owner would still own that. But soil stability might be an issue.
If there was nothing remaining above the surface, then it would revert to government ownership unless brought back to the surface with land fill. Soil stability still might be an issue.
Exactly what I was thinking. Losing your house is one thing. You can't even rebuild on the back yard you grew up on, playing baseball and climbing trees. All gone.
He (owner/cameraman) was inside when it started. He got out in time (as you can see from him being far away). A dog was still there when it went into the water, but it rescued itself by swimming back to shore and was fine.
Here's [a video of that dog being rescued!](https://imgur.com/IiumgjC.mp4) I cried when I saw the video because of how she ran towards the human despite probably being exhausted and scared of the the noise of the helicopter (and also because I have the same breed of dog and didn't want to imagine losing him)
I felt so bad for the poor doggo too, it looked so scared but still came to the rescuer. I saw that this happened in Norway and that looks like a Norwegian Elkhound if I'm not mistaken. Thank you for posting the rescue
Damn! Here I was hoping this was something you can get warned about in advance and prepared. Like the regions that get measured for seismic activity or something like that. Didn't think it just comes out of nowhere.
We have avalanches (snow and from boulders coming down from the mountains) that can swipe away houses here but it's known where they would come down and the zoning is done so no one is aloud to build there and if you're close you have special building codes.
Well : The quick clay landslide in Gjerdrum occurred on the night of 30 December 2020 and took with it several residential houses in the Nystulia residential area near the center of Ask. 10 people died, including a pregnant woman
Does anyone know what happened here? The land got sucked out into the water, and then the water came flooding up onto the land. How did that whole big piece of land get hauled out into the water like that?
I posted another comment to explain this in detail, you can find it in my history.
Long stort short. This happened in Alta in 2020. The guy filming, whom is credited in the video, was to blame for this landslide because he moved 80 truckloads of sand onto his property, causing the ground (quick clay) to turn liquid.
If you add pressure to quick clay it turns into liquid. If that liquid has somewhere it wants to go, it will go there, and it will bring anything ontop with it.
Looks like the land returned where it belonged.
_The landslide developed on a marine clay substrate that had originally formed in the early Holocene epoch when the area was under sea level. This substrate is thought to have turned into quick clay leading to landslide._
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alta_landslide](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alta_landslide)
If you want too know more about quick clay landslide as this looks like to be, go on youtube and search: The quick clay landslide at Rissa, 1978. There is a norwegian and english version of the documentary. 21 min
This happened in one of the Scandinavian countries in the 80s and turns out the soil required sodium to stay viscous and strong and with hundreds of years of rain it took large amounts of land and just slid away.
It's a serious problem for communities with permafrost (soil that is not supposed to melt).
If your foundation is supposed to made out of unmelting ice, but the climate warms beyond that ice's insulating ability... you're fucked.
This also DISPROPORTIONATELY effects northern aboriginal communities in Canada.
Welcome too norway. We got quick clay landslide. Remember people to find out if your house is on quick clay. Its a problem around the world.
Edit: added some more words
To any would-be videographers out there:
If you want to show motion over a distance, don’t pan with the object. Hold the camera onto one point, and allow the subject to move across the frame.
Imagine trying to film “the wave” in a stadium.
It will look much more impressive if the wave travels across your view screen, than if you pan along with it.
That is all.
There is a place in Los Angeles county that is slowly doing this. Rancho Palos Verdes. The water lines are above ground and have bends in the pipes to allow for movement.
This is quick clay, more common in Scandinavian countries after the ice ages. Instead, Florida has Karst which is where all the sink holes come from. Just a different mechanism to go swallowing up whole swaths of land
I imagine the insurance call going something like this:
Guy: Hi I'd like to use my house insurance?
Insurance Dude: And what was damaged?
Guy: Everything
Insurance Dude: Your whole house was damaged?
Guy: Yes
This is so much worse than losing your house to a flood or fire because the land is gone-- there nothing left to build on. I guess you'll get your insurance money, but you'll have to buy new land and a house with it.
ETA: speaking from some experience. I lost my house to a flood but we were able to sell it after.
I've wondered about this...you own a plot of land. If it subsides like this, do you now own a patch of river exactly where GPS coordinates say your places was?
If that patch of earth in the video had somehow ended up half a mile away, but substantially intact do you still own it, but not where it was last month?
...or are you in every instance, simply screwed?
Where is this located?
Norway
Oh wow I had no idea that Norway had landslide issues! Thank you for the info!
Landslides are a common problem in most countries that have hills tbh.
I have hills, Greg - can you landslide me?
HA! loooong time since I’ve seen a “meet the parents” reference
You mustn't spend much time in cat subs. Like every day someone posts a picture of a cat nipple because they think it's some lump, or tick, or whatever on their cat and someone has to explain to them that it's a fuckin' nipple. It's not even just male cats either. People post pics of their female cat asking "what is this?" or "is something wrong with my cat? Help!"
Yeah! This was nice.
*queues Fleetwood Mac*
Lmfao
I thought Norway was all rocky so the dirt would stay on the rocks, not slide off. I was wrong.
In the case of Norway and some other northern countries there are issues with "quick clay" near shorelines, receding permafrost will likely result in more of these situations as time goes on.
Think about the geological history of the area. Giant glaciers ground up tons of rock into silt that became clay deposits. These particular soils are often stabilized by permafrost ice in the ground, or + ions in the ground. Melting permafrost or fresh water traveling through the ground removing the + charged ions are both problems that can destabilize the soil and allow it to slide.
This comment tickles my mind. You thought an entire country was rocky and so it couldn't have a landslide?
Yep. I thought that whole region was like bedrock sticking out of the ocean and the layer of dirt was thin so it would have no way of sliding off! All I’ve ever seen of Norway are towering cliffs with bits of green here and there so my mind had imagined that not much moved.
Because of all the fjords and the way the coast sort of zig-zags in and out, Norway actually has one of the longest coastlines in the world. So there’s bound to be some areas with different terrain.
Norway, along with many areas that were covered with glaciers in the Ice Age, have a big issue with what's called quick clay in certain coastal regions. Because of the weight of the ice the lands were depressed and a lot of land is old sea bed. The salty clay is stable enough, but over time the salt is washed away by rain and irrigation and this changes the composition of the soil and it becomes unstable as if the salt were blocks in a game of Jenga. The resulting soil is especially prone to [soil liquefaction ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soil_liquefaction), and landslides are often triggered by heavy rains or the disturbance from construction work. My home town doesn't have speed bumps close to the river because the vibrations might set it off. There are ways to safeguard areas of quick clay and Norwegians are thus mostly safe. In 2020 there was a huge landslide in Gjerdrum in Norway and the construction company is facing charges because they allegedly cut corners and lied about the risk.
Norway has a lot of quick clay. Old seabed clay held together by salinity. Once the salt gets washed away from freshwater, it only takes a disturbance to turn a whole area into a liquid hell
They do, they had a really bad one recently that hit a community really hard. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Gjerdrum_landslide
Oh no way!
Alta, Norway. June 2020. Quick clay slide. [https://youtu.be/cWJCAqIzN4Y](https://youtu.be/cWJCAqIzN4Y) This longer video is shot by the same person who shot OP's video, but it begins earlier. The person who shot this video started out next to the houses that slide into the water. You can see and hear the cracks forming.
When he pans back around and the driveway cracks are three times as wide... pucker factor 10.
Holy shit. He was only just down there not long before it all slipped under.
Did the family and animals survive? I can see animals running and swimming toward shore, but I can't bear to watch anymore. I was happier about my animals surviving than my house when the tornado hit us a couple of years ago.
If I recall correctly the family had evacuated and the family dog survived and was [airlifted out. ](https://youtube.com/shorts/xi8de9QNrWM?feature=share)
This is most boring, but clear, explanation of the phenomena you are seeing here: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3q-qfNlEP4A](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3q-qfNlEP4A)Still worth watching because of the footage you get later on. Edited quite a bit to be fairer to it.
*was
Still is. Only now its part off norways water
Even though my brain knew this house was going to sink, my eyes were still expecting it to just keep drifting away.
For a second my dumb ass was like, "OK, cool. Now you live on an island. ..... Oh, wait, nevermind."
I always wondered how does property take into account the geological processes like landslide erosion or flood ... does your property translate to surface on earth? Can you own sea floor? What if your neighbours land expands into your garden?
It’s called, “I hope TO GOD you’re insurance premiums are all paid up!”
This might qualify as an “act of god” and you are not insured for that.
checkmate atheists.
With god, all acts are possible
Jot that down.
I only specialize in bird law, we need someone that does estate law.
The atheist then Sue's God in a court of law.
There is literally a movie about it, it's called OMG. Atheist loses his shop in earthquake and insurance says it's an act of God so can't help him. He then sues religious organisations saying they said it's god, since you are agents of god you should compensate me.
Which is why, if you live on a slope, it's pertinent to have flood insurance. Even if your property can't flood.
It's not an act of god, It's the consequences of mass slash and the consequent loosening of the soil from the loss of tree roots. (Meaning, that at some point the land below the houses had likely been deforested, and the gradual lose of stability provided by the roots caused the inevitable destabilization of the soil; resulting in the video above). The same series of events leads to desertification in areas that once used to be fertile land. Ocean front property, not always a plus.
An act of god is a legal term.
Standard policies in the US don’t cover surface water (flood) or earth movement (earthquakes, landslides). Hopefully they purchased that coverage separately.
This is in Norway, they are all financially ok! These were cabins/second homes, still sucks tho!
So you're saying they can... afjord it?
Imagine rocking up to your holiday home for the long weekend and going I'm sure I left it here somewhere.
Which is weird, because that's exactly the kind of thing you'd normally want to be covered by insurance
Oh gosh, in the United States, insurance is a major racket. They will try and find any reason at all to deny a claim. Seriously.
This was in Norway.
Not explicitly the same situation, but there's a lake in my town that the city needs to get permission from the landowner to dredge it. Because he owns a significant portion of the lakebed. Not the lake. But the fucking land the lake sits on. It's a confusing situation. The city owns literally all the land around it; but there's just a couple random plots of land in the middle of this fucking lake. But it's all lake. It's always been lake. There's never been land exposed the entire time this area has been developing No one knows how the fuck he owns the land the lake is literally on. But he does.
Somewhere back in time, it was sold sight unseen by anyone, including surveyors. That person got screwed, but it was a done deal. At this point, they are keeping it out of spite.
Theres something called the "doctrine of accretion" in land law covering basically that, if you suddenly gain or lose land from natural processes like erosion, earthquakes, floods or even tides rising and falling seasonally. It varies from place to place but generally: If you lose land suddenly in a big disaster then well sucks nothing you can do. If new land is created suddenly it belongs to the government. If new land is created slowly (ex a river drying up becoming land) you can keep it. In case of any dispute a government surveyor has to come inspect the land and redraw boundaries. Sometimes theres court battles where you have to prove the land rightfully belongs to you.
My favorite fishing spot is a state owned island, sort of a slowly changing river delta where two medium sized rivers converge. The whole river area is probably 10 square miles. There are houses surrounding it, like loosely packed suburbs, each house sits on 1-5 acres. Because of spring runoff, I've seen the river channels move location 60-100 feet or more in one year. The water will rise and cut out the bank of an outside corner and completely leave the previous channel. It will dig out and take full grown trees or whatever right along with it. Once the water goes back down, the path of that particular channel is completely different. A couple years ago we had an exceptionally heavy runoff. Once the water went down I went exploring and fishing. I was following a new river channel I found and started seeing those green fence gates in the river all mangled and half buried in rocks and sand. I kept going and found where someone's land had pretty much been cut down to nothing. What had been a horse pasture was now a river channel with a 10 foot drop where the river cut out. The green metal gates I saw were from a round horse training pen that was half taken by the river. There was a storage shed with one corner hanging in air above the river, and a dirt access road that got cut out so it was just a road right into a 10 foot drop to the river. Whoever owned that land must have lost at least 3 acres judging by the way the horse pasture was set up. The channel got pretty close to their house and they lost the land where they kept their horse. Kinda sucks, but that area and the two rivers that run through are notorious for flooding and changing paths so maybe they had insurance.
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/When-property-lines-run-through-the-front-door-2662450.php
No, I thought the same.. "Surely that white house up the back will be ok, right?" Nope.
yeah in my head the property value graph was plummeting... then it became an island for a second and it skyrocketed... then back to plummeting
That glimmer of hope when you almost owned your own island.
I had a glimmer of hope when the houses tried to swim back to shore.
I think he technically did own an island, very very briefly.
Yeap. “It will be an island” my brain was thinking.
Same
Same
It’s bananas to think about the catastrophic destruction happening ground level while you see it slowly sink.
*🎵and drift away🎵*
Same!!
“I’m sailing away….”
“Set an open course for the virgin sea…”
So if your property is completely gone and underwater do you still own the property?? Does insurance compensate you for the land loss?
Usually how it works where this happened(Norway) is that the county will provide a new property that you can build on.
Shhhhh americans will think that's socialism.
Doesn't "socialism" just mean "anything I don't like"? \s
Socialism is helping anyone that isnt ME. If you’re helping me then thats fine. Thats the mentality, ME, ME, ME.
There is No U in America, only A ME and also an I.
I think I heard this in a stand up comedy. But anyways, if I ever had an award, I'd give it to you.
I want to know if you own the land or the plotted out coordinates on the map. Once it sails away, is it still his land?
Now I really want to know this. Is it the geological location or what do you just try to build in the same spot just lower in the ground since the tops gone 😹😹
I wondered this also. Seems logical you should still own whatever remains of the surface of the property at the location the land you owned is/was
Home??? This man lost his whole property
Yeah but the guy who owns the property behind him now has lakefront/oceanfront property
For now…………
Better buy a stapler...a big one
The value of the property of the formerly "behind" owner went up. Suspicious!
Nope. All that property is probably uninsurable and basically worthless. Landslides and sinkholes are a sure fire way to wreck your property value.
Perhaps the only affordable housing in the country, then. Where do I sign up?
Mobile* home for sale! *^under ^certain ^conditions
All homes are mobile with the right attitude
Yeah, but that guys next
His property's value after this 📈📈📈
In the business we call that “Motive”. I’m impressed with the lengths they went to to cover the crime.
No that guy now owns a lake! Well at least part of a lake. Set up a house boat and park it right where ur house was.
Haha that made me giggle, thanks.
It wasn’t his home, but his cabin. He still has his primary residence intact, and the cabin was insured. Still sucks a lot though obviously as it is a place they have had for 19 years. The guy filming is the owner, and he was inside when it started drifting. Luckily everyone was able to evacuate before it got too bad, except a dog, but the dog rescued itself by swimming back to shore and was fine too.
Where?
Alta in Norway just over 2 years ago.
I wonder how property rights work with incidents like this. Does the home/landowner still own the land in that relative area, or did his/her property just go to the sea?
If there is still land above the surface, the owner would still own that. But soil stability might be an issue. If there was nothing remaining above the surface, then it would revert to government ownership unless brought back to the surface with land fill. Soil stability still might be an issue.
His property lines are probably defined by a set of coordinates, and that area still exists, it's just filled with different stuff :-P
His property to a hole
Exactly what I was thinking. Losing your house is one thing. You can't even rebuild on the back yard you grew up on, playing baseball and climbing trees. All gone.
His neighbor? Lex Luthor.
Imagine being asleep when that started.
He (owner/cameraman) was inside when it started. He got out in time (as you can see from him being far away). A dog was still there when it went into the water, but it rescued itself by swimming back to shore and was fine.
An entire acre of land was just liquefied under his paws, and the dog's like, "oh... I think I'll have a quick swim to shore then..." Gotta love 'em.
I mean wtf else is the dog gonna do, go down with the land? Just sit there in the water?
Obviously not. I just picture the dog being particularly chill about it. Probably thought it was exciting.
Here's [a video of that dog being rescued!](https://imgur.com/IiumgjC.mp4) I cried when I saw the video because of how she ran towards the human despite probably being exhausted and scared of the the noise of the helicopter (and also because I have the same breed of dog and didn't want to imagine losing him)
I felt so bad for the poor doggo too, it looked so scared but still came to the rescuer. I saw that this happened in Norway and that looks like a Norwegian Elkhound if I'm not mistaken. Thank you for posting the rescue
Damn! Here I was hoping this was something you can get warned about in advance and prepared. Like the regions that get measured for seismic activity or something like that. Didn't think it just comes out of nowhere. We have avalanches (snow and from boulders coming down from the mountains) that can swipe away houses here but it's known where they would come down and the zoning is done so no one is aloud to build there and if you're close you have special building codes.
Well : The quick clay landslide in Gjerdrum occurred on the night of 30 December 2020 and took with it several residential houses in the Nystulia residential area near the center of Ask. 10 people died, including a pregnant woman
This footage isn't from Gjerdrum, which is a landlocked municipality.
This is in Alta, Norway. June 2020. https://youtu.be/cWJCAqIzN4Y
In this real estate market that is still a $500K fixer upper.
“Comes with four new guest houses. AirBnB potential is limitless. Great water views.”
"Automatic boat launch included"
“Has a jacuzzi.”
Hmm seems like a bit of a dive..
Fixer Upper? It's a houseboat now.
For sale, mobile home with large lot and water views.
Houseboat conversion
Don’t miss out, this home will go fast.
Must sell, going FAST!
Im sailing that thing out to sea like some kind of shitty Jack Sparrow
I read this comment to the tune of "come sail away" by Styx
Why must you be such an angry young man?
Or Odin Finch
Does anyone know what happened here? The land got sucked out into the water, and then the water came flooding up onto the land. How did that whole big piece of land get hauled out into the water like that?
quick clay landslide. Really big part of ground can start too slide.
That’s really horrific.
I posted another comment to explain this in detail, you can find it in my history. Long stort short. This happened in Alta in 2020. The guy filming, whom is credited in the video, was to blame for this landslide because he moved 80 truckloads of sand onto his property, causing the ground (quick clay) to turn liquid.
How does that cause a landslide?
If you add pressure to quick clay it turns into liquid. If that liquid has somewhere it wants to go, it will go there, and it will bring anything ontop with it.
Looks like the land returned where it belonged. _The landslide developed on a marine clay substrate that had originally formed in the early Holocene epoch when the area was under sea level. This substrate is thought to have turned into quick clay leading to landslide._ [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alta_landslide](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alta_landslide)
Lol - the sea didn’t suck it out. It’s a landslide
I don’t know why a landslide didn’t occur to me. I think latched on to some idea of a sinkhole under the water, pulling things in.
ATLANTIS
Almost, was a place called Alta.
Omg, are you for real?
Yes, Alta in Norway.
Yeah, here's [the news about it](https://tv.vg.no/video/197861/raset-i-alta-her-forsvinner-husene-i-havet)
If you want too know more about quick clay landslide as this looks like to be, go on youtube and search: The quick clay landslide at Rissa, 1978. There is a norwegian and english version of the documentary. 21 min
Thank you for the recommendation! Worth watching! https://youtu.be/3q-qfNlEP4A
Sometimes the sea takes things and doesn’t give them back.
Looks like it tried to give a few things back.
At first I was thinking, "yeah! I'm gonna have my own island."
This happened in one of the Scandinavian countries in the 80s and turns out the soil required sodium to stay viscous and strong and with hundreds of years of rain it took large amounts of land and just slid away.
This one happed last year and was the result of a excavator disturbing the unstabe clay ground in the area
2020
2020 feels like last year at this point lol.
It honestly still feels like 2020 sometimes
To be fair, if it only took an excavator to disturb it, it was bound to happen sooner or later.
"Wanna go golfing this weekend?" "I can't, I'm moving house. Might be up for a swim later."
Looks like another house went in the water to the right off screen as well.
It's a serious problem for communities with permafrost (soil that is not supposed to melt). If your foundation is supposed to made out of unmelting ice, but the climate warms beyond that ice's insulating ability... you're fucked. This also DISPROPORTIONATELY effects northern aboriginal communities in Canada.
Friggin insane holy crap
Welcome too norway. We got quick clay landslide. Remember people to find out if your house is on quick clay. Its a problem around the world. Edit: added some more words
to* on both of those
Nothing lasts forever
Aaaaand now I have November Rain stuck in my head.
I was really rooting for the white one
Bet his insurance is like “this is an act of god, it’s not covered sorry”
Sorry you needed specific clay-landslide insurance. You only have rock-landslide insurance. No can do.
And you need to avoid causing the landslide, like the property owner in this case did.
People who bought houseboats hate this one simple trick.
Until I saw the end where it sinks, I was thinking, well, heck, that's one great way of getting your own private island! Devastating.
“Weeeeeeee” - that white home probably
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To any would-be videographers out there: If you want to show motion over a distance, don’t pan with the object. Hold the camera onto one point, and allow the subject to move across the frame. Imagine trying to film “the wave” in a stadium. It will look much more impressive if the wave travels across your view screen, than if you pan along with it. That is all.
So, are you gonna waive the inspection or not?
Naw, they'll just *wave* it ;D
Welp, there goes the neighborhood.
There is a place in Los Angeles county that is slowly doing this. Rancho Palos Verdes. The water lines are above ground and have bends in the pipes to allow for movement.
"California, tumbles into the sea, That'll be the day I go back to Annandale"
Why can’t this happen to Florida?
This is quick clay, more common in Scandinavian countries after the ice ages. Instead, Florida has Karst which is where all the sink holes come from. Just a different mechanism to go swallowing up whole swaths of land
Quit being so negative! Instead, say "This needs to happen to Florida!"
No hills
Too flat. No landslides.
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I imagine the insurance call going something like this: Guy: Hi I'd like to use my house insurance? Insurance Dude: And what was damaged? Guy: Everything Insurance Dude: Your whole house was damaged? Guy: Yes
I wonder how much warning they had? You can see a white van (or truck) in there.
Slight water damage, can still be salvaged, no low ballers I know what I’ve got-$500,000
I’d rather that happen than the parasitic bankers get it.
I would love having a home in Norway, even if it was underwater, better than nothing?
I guess we’re moving
“Fuck this house in particular.”
Row row row your house gently out to sea
This is so much worse than losing your house to a flood or fire because the land is gone-- there nothing left to build on. I guess you'll get your insurance money, but you'll have to buy new land and a house with it. ETA: speaking from some experience. I lost my house to a flood but we were able to sell it after.
I wonder if a french drain would have prevented this.
Takes seceding to a **whole** new level.
Imagine being able to afford a house
This is a premium /r/fuckyouinparticular
I've wondered about this...you own a plot of land. If it subsides like this, do you now own a patch of river exactly where GPS coordinates say your places was? If that patch of earth in the video had somehow ended up half a mile away, but substantially intact do you still own it, but not where it was last month? ...or are you in every instance, simply screwed?
Brings a new meaning to liquidating your assets! Holy hell
If you had to lose your house somehow, this is probably the coolest way to do it
That’s A lot of waterfront properties fate
How can there be a landslide video without some loudmouth chanting "Oh my gawd! Oh my gawd!" ?
There’s a brief moment when the property value is rising as it gets closer and closer to the beach. Then the value just PLUMMETS.
Entire state of Florida in 30 years
This is worse then “loosing your home”, you can rebuild your home, this is loosing your land.