CCTV captures shocking 1000 tonne cliff fall at West Bay

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Жыл бұрын

The dramatic moment a huge chunk of 150ft tall cliffs comes crashing down on a beach is caught on video.
The footage shows more than 1,000 tonnes of ancient rock suddenly collapsing in two stages at West Bay in Dorset.
The rockfall happens seconds after a 'little puff of dust' is seen coming from the middle of the sandstone cliff just as it is about to crumble.
Moments later a 150ft tall stack falls away and slumps on to the beach.
The fall immediately weakens the neighbour rock buttress which then goes the same way.
The footage was shot at 10.53am on January 18.
#weather #dorset #weathernews #jurassiccoast #jurassicworld

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@anianfilms8060 Жыл бұрын

who else walked on that beach?

@jimjimgl3 Жыл бұрын

Cliff: "Just a little off the top please"... Ocean: "There ya go!"...

@cdncitizen4700 5 ай бұрын

Cliffs are always "living on the edge"... I mean, from a geological perspective, you always KNOW this is how landscapes evolve, it's just amazing to actually see it actually happen !

@kotik1033 10 ай бұрын

I've lived a few miles from here for the past 50 years: there are regular rock falls from this section of cliff, it's almost always after heavy rainfalls.

@dillyhill2127 Жыл бұрын

I cannot believe people sunbathe under that dodgy cliff in the summer

@ian_b Жыл бұрын

It's as solid as a rock!

@bugsy742 Жыл бұрын

@@ian_b 😂

@kelaarin Жыл бұрын

San Diego: I can split a beach in half. Dorset: Hold my bay.

@ronsamborski6230 Жыл бұрын

Atlantic versus Pacific competition. The horror! The horror! Run for the hills! 😁

@edwaggoner7403 Жыл бұрын

@@ronsamborski6230 But the hills are sliding into the sea.

@lindaj5492 Жыл бұрын

@@ronsamborski6230 not even Atlantic: West Bay is in Dorset, so English Channel 😊. No help from big surf.

@ronsamborski6230 Жыл бұрын

@@lindaj5492 Thanks for the info Linda.

@justagirlsd3000 Жыл бұрын

😂😂

@TheFiown Жыл бұрын

In Goa, India the cliffs are made from a type of 'coral stone' looks like pumice. It comes off the land in huge quite even slices and when fallen the people use it to build houses as it is quite easy to chop up given it's structure. I watched a man one day being delivered a truck load of raw stone and sitting on his haunches with a sort of axe he chopped it all into almost identical sized blocks, no measurements. Fascinating to watch.

@GWAYGWAY1 Жыл бұрын

I can hear the screams of ‘It’s global warming’. Not just the waves eating the mud away from the base.

@grosvenorclub Жыл бұрын

Its not shocking , its just normal beach erosion happening 24hrs a day

@rogerkane5750 Жыл бұрын

you so right ....most people think its a problem ....its mother nature doing what she dose ....nothing will ever stay the same ....we think it will ..but it wont ...mother nature moves on we are the ones that that cant seem to understand that ...???? I cant understand why people build in costal areas and never expect it to change ...Humans are nuts lol

@me5768 Жыл бұрын

It’s funny that you would mention that because when the Europeans came to the Americas they discovered that the Indians all lived in land, and nobody on the beach. They even knew that then that it was stupid not to build on the beach.

@pconrz Жыл бұрын

I find your comment shocking. I’m shocked. Just shocking. We can’t use that word enough, it’s shocking.

@surf101- Жыл бұрын

@Hector Morales "You keep using that word, shocking. I don't think it means what you think it means."

@jamescampoccio1152 Жыл бұрын

THIS happens 24 hrs a day?

@stantheman9072 Жыл бұрын

Well, I guess the Broadchurch sequel is going to need a different location.

@DeadlyDiddly 9 ай бұрын

50 years ago, we used to set up for a summer day at the beach at the base of those cliffs, falls were extremely rare. Nowadays we get one or more a year, always when the weather changes radically.

@tomcolvin8199 3 ай бұрын

Greta is not happy.

@jpdronography1 Жыл бұрын

What I find staggering is how efficiently the Sea washes away the debris! When I've flown the drone round these Jurassic coast cliff falls just one year later, after the Winter storms, the beach has effectively re-opened itself!! The frequency of these collapses have been on the increase in recent years along the Jurassic Coast, due to the increased rainfall and subsequent drying out. It's just not worth the risk walking along the beaches beneath these cliffs IMO... I send the drone in instead! A detailed 'before and after' Cinematic film can be found on my Channel. (Sorry for the plug.. 🙄)

@vv4g Жыл бұрын

I’m down to check it out

@rickhinojosa5455 Жыл бұрын

JP Dronography It's ok. Don't be sorry. How will we know if you don't tell us?!😁🙏

@timothya.olmeda7299 Жыл бұрын

Impressive. Well done!

@jpdronography1 Жыл бұрын

@@timothya.olmeda7299 Thanks Tim, the hardest bit is trying to put something together before the interest in it wanes! 👍

@infinitydreamzz Жыл бұрын

The risk of a chalk cliff collapsing on you at the very specific moment you happen to be walking by is extremely small.

@SilentKnight43 Жыл бұрын

In Canada the gov't would allocate $250k to study the cause of the collapse and then announce the foregone conclusion after the money evaporated.

@cal2780 Жыл бұрын

They learned that from Amerika 😁

@alunmurison7421 Жыл бұрын

😂😂😂

@mehoffjack Жыл бұрын

You need to go down to florida and live with the rest of the science denying cousin lovers.

@edwardpardy7866 Жыл бұрын

Yup its a Trudeau thing

@kennethalbert4653 Жыл бұрын

Don't feel bad, in the US they would have allocated $25Mil

@GRosa250 Жыл бұрын

You would definitely be shocked if you were taking a stroll along the beach and that landed on your head

@taunteratwill1787 Жыл бұрын

No I think it would only be slightly annoying. 😋

@sagittariusemperor9692 Жыл бұрын

Like the hammer that fell on paul Pelosis head 😎

@dd-jm1md Жыл бұрын

more stunned than shocked…

@infinitydreamzz Жыл бұрын

petrified (look up the etymology)

@lesliefranklin1870 Жыл бұрын

If it landed on your head, there would be no thought or sensation. You would just be dead.

@cherylsemrau7100 Жыл бұрын

Wow! The area looks like a scene from Broadchurch.

@zachgreenninja3885 Жыл бұрын

That’s because that’s where broadchurch was filmed!

@lynneedwards4538 Жыл бұрын

Cue all the fossil hunters dusting off their hammers and legging it down there.

@sneeringimperialist6667 Жыл бұрын

THIS is why I don't stand on the edge of cliffs like that!

@k3zzyP Жыл бұрын

Me neither, nor would I ever walk on that beach.

@grahambrown5013 6 ай бұрын

We were down there last month, there'd been a large fall at Charmouth the day before we arrived, so we went for a walk there to take a look. The beach was littered with fossil bearing rock that had come down in the collapse.

@douglashebert2523 Жыл бұрын

Give it a minute, someone will declare the cliffs a public hazard and call for it's removal.

@cynthiasmith4130 Жыл бұрын

This is absolutely frightening!!!!

@user-ln2yi6rt4c 5 ай бұрын

как ни странно хорошие места для отдыха находятся на таких вот участках берега.

@leroythemaster4268 Жыл бұрын

and that is how you close a beach.

@meinolf153 Жыл бұрын

The rocks are from the Jurassic period. Maybe there are dinosaur fossils in the rubble.

@Joe-lb8qn Жыл бұрын

The leftmost overhanging section on the left looks very fragile I'm surprised that whole section of beach isn't cordoned off.

@andyhughes5885 Жыл бұрын

That`s 3 cliff collapses in as many days, one in England, one in the U.S. & one in Australia all captured on camera.

@markcross6864 Жыл бұрын

Perfect opportunity for fossil hunting….when given the all clear of course.

@Paiadakine Жыл бұрын

I see this cliff and think about how epic it would be to slope or ridge soar.

@micronicman Жыл бұрын

And THATS why you don’t stand on the edge of cliffs!!

@royfearn4345 Жыл бұрын

Nor underneath them!

@jonathanjudd3168 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for landscape mode.

@bubblywaters3116 Жыл бұрын

Something crazy is going on because Black Beach Torres in San Diego collapsed 8 days ago.

@lindaj5492 Жыл бұрын

Heavy persistent rain before both

@tekanova7480 Жыл бұрын

Very interesting land form, when was this a complete mound?

@joelincolnlincoln6315 Жыл бұрын

I got buried in that. Please send to my gofund me account thanks

@christinegerard4974 Жыл бұрын

Very impressive .

@rainman7992 Жыл бұрын

dammit, now I gotta go long way round the mountain.

@rosalinddocherty2047 Жыл бұрын

Interesting footage.

@David-yy7lb 5 ай бұрын

I'm trying to figure out who took a scale and weighed that portion of the cliff to come up with 1000 tons🤔

@oscarscadds36 3 ай бұрын

I live 5 minutes away from West Bay, this happens like every week it’s not big news lol

@johnmehaffey9953 Жыл бұрын

The continual beating of the waves just undermines the cliff then gravity takes over, just simple physics

@MashLimit Жыл бұрын

More to do with rain getting into fissures underground and weakening the rocks integrity.

@BradiKal61 Жыл бұрын

I hope they catch the responsible parties and prosecute them

@patroberts5449 Жыл бұрын

Gosh darn it Poseidon!!! You’re in big trouble now! And I mean BIG trouble😂

@ntal5859 Жыл бұрын

@@patroberts5449 Sure sure blame the big guy, sure the Kraken has got an alibi ?

@patroberts5449 Жыл бұрын

Well, those darn Seattle Kraken! I knew I couldn’t trust them!

@ronsamborski6230 Жыл бұрын

@@patroberts5449Poseidon with his trident and ocean storms versus the Kraken and their hockey sticks. 🏴‍☠️ 🔱 🏒

@patroberts5449 Жыл бұрын

@@ronsamborski6230 damn those hockey shaped tridents!

@ibgeorgeb Жыл бұрын

That’s why one should not stand at the edge of a cliff.

@kerrysupporter Жыл бұрын

Or at the base of a cliff

@ntal5859 Жыл бұрын

Then how are suicidal meant to carry out their plans?

@SilentKnight43 Жыл бұрын

Sometimes you just gotta give natural selection a chance.

@milanchlebak9071 Жыл бұрын

New point break, good waves❤

@geoffwright9570 Жыл бұрын

Have walked over the cliffs in the past and along the beach there. My sister in law lives just up the road in Bridgeport.

@Imjustsayin99 Жыл бұрын

Wow, took seconds and not millions of years.

@PsKIXEM Жыл бұрын

Awesome

@T.J.Caldwell318 Жыл бұрын

If that was in America they would have the beach blocked off forever. You know, for your safety.

@royfearn4345 Жыл бұрын

And yet none of the rim of the Grand Canyon is fenced off!

@crazyharmless666 Жыл бұрын

now people can walk out on all that rock in the ocean to cast further when they fish =)

@SilentKnight43 Жыл бұрын

Spoken like a true optimist and opportunist! 👍 Well done!

@stephengamble9388 10 ай бұрын

Why is this "shocking". Its called Nature.

@alm5693 Жыл бұрын

Now there's two beaches.

@marcuswardle3180 Жыл бұрын

Broadchurch is going to have to relocate!

@s1ddo Жыл бұрын

Similar thing happened near San Diego a couple of days later, I'm not sure if the cliffs are a similar type of rock but do look pretty close to these ones. Funny how it seems to start from the top or middle not the bottom where the sea would be in direct contact with the cliffs.

@lesliefranklin1870 Жыл бұрын

The common factor seems to be that they were "rain soaked."

@stewartevans9753 Жыл бұрын

I'm often in West Bay in the summer months always amazed at the people at the top close to the edge making selfies or the complete lunatics that are sitting right underneath them

@annemarieboon7778 7 ай бұрын

What if you come from across the Channel and haven't got a clue?

@jf2613 5 ай бұрын

@@annemarieboon7778there is clear and plentiful warning signage in these locations.👍

@Thatwrxguy Жыл бұрын

The earth's core has stopped rotating apparently. Isn't everything supposed to fall over?

@boxsterman77 Жыл бұрын

Because gravity has been canceled?

@Yah-Izoa-Hakaboth Жыл бұрын

@@boxsterman77 Nope. It is signs that the LORD Sabaoth: the Holy One of Israel is coming to judge the world and to gather His people!

@Thatwrxguy Жыл бұрын

@Brian Coady was a joke, Fox 5, whatever your afraid of, we will cover it in today's broadcast 😀

@stephenpain9236 Жыл бұрын

@@Yah-Izoa-Hakaboth You seem to have a very low opinion of the Holy One's ability to design a more cogent system of signage.

@lindaj5492 Жыл бұрын

@@stephenpain9236 Maybe it’s a divine party game, like those ones where you have to figure out how to do something but no-one tells you the rules.

@lowercherty Жыл бұрын

This is not the first time that cliff has collapsed.

@Salutimondo 3 ай бұрын

It's been collapsing for millions of years.......................................

@chrisclarke7828 6 ай бұрын

Did you weigh it?

@grom7826 Жыл бұрын

"We're gonna need a bigger silt fence"

@wordreet Жыл бұрын

Ancient sand dunes vs the sea. This is what’s hap!

@chesterthawkins7510 21 күн бұрын

OMG!

@dronedruid153 11 ай бұрын

God bless the panopticon!

@lewisdye5627 Жыл бұрын

all those dinosaur and titanosaur fossills to go and collect

@bobbojones8157 10 ай бұрын

I ve walked along that very beach by those cliffs on numerous occasions . Thank god not that day

@rickhinojosa5455 Жыл бұрын

Auuuggghhh! CLIMATE CHANGE!! RUUUNNNN!!!

@SandyToesDetecting Жыл бұрын

50 or more years ago, used to go fossil hunting under those cliffs.

@infinitydreamzz Жыл бұрын

And then suddenly, one morning, you were fossilized too

@SandyToesDetecting Жыл бұрын

@@infinitydreamzz well still here 50 years later.

@infinitydreamzz Жыл бұрын

@@SandyToesDetecting my mistake, it was meant as a joke about the cliffs collapsing on your head.

@SandyToesDetecting Жыл бұрын

@@infinitydreamzz back then the falls were a lot less and the risk not perceived by me as a kid, probably not by my parents either. I spent hours swimming in the river just to this side of cliffs, eals and all.

Жыл бұрын

Shocking? Why?

@ScottishNSRailFan Жыл бұрын

Back in the eighties, I walked along the cliff face while on holiday in Charmouth.

@MashLimit Жыл бұрын

So it's all yr fault..

@michaelstapelberg7751 Жыл бұрын

i was more impressed by the entire cliff structure... cos we can see in the foreground the cliffs just rise out of now where fast... the foreground really give you an idea of the mass of that whole geographic structure.. and realy expresses the volume of those deposits! once upon a time that was mud on the bottom of the sea bed! cool

@ceoatcrystalsoft4942 Жыл бұрын

Sorry, KZfaq comments are only for complaining and jokes. Education and observations were banned long ago

@trilby5546 Жыл бұрын

Will the ocean reach Needles?⭐️👍⭐️👍

@thomasduffmcgready-zb3yt 9 ай бұрын

Video hasn't no sound. Or is this the Silence is Golden Vsrsion.

@chosenone8454 Жыл бұрын

Coastal erosion been going on since time began see it often at Beachy Head and surrounding area it happens

@Evan-hq5dt Жыл бұрын

Thank you Mr. Obvious.

@NiallMS1 7 ай бұрын

1,000 tonnes? More like 5,000 tonnes!

@-.-4 Жыл бұрын

I wish there could have been sound.

@hebneh 5 ай бұрын

I wonder how long it took the ocean to redistribut all that debris and return the beach to its original configuration?

@livingproof9622 Жыл бұрын

Got them a jetty now.

@alangough8416 10 ай бұрын

Falls more regularly than ice from a glacier

@patrickporter6536 Жыл бұрын

Why is this shocking?

@daverose2012 Жыл бұрын

Entropy in full working order

@korea.festival 6 ай бұрын

Beautiful Upload friend. keep it up. Thank you for sharing this to us. Greetings from Korea

@blowduke Жыл бұрын

Still people sit right on the edge or tight underneath it .

@aleccap5946 10 ай бұрын

Who weighed it ?

@KB-uu4fy 3 ай бұрын

Shocking ??????

@Lumpy-Grits-and-Jowls Жыл бұрын

This is what happens when rich people build their cliffs too close to the sea!

@chrisbodum3621 Жыл бұрын

What's shocking about this ? It's the way of the world, the universe even.

@TheZororya Жыл бұрын

It’s like the British economy going down collapsing every day

@carlosgranados3911 Жыл бұрын

This World is FALLING in pieces.

@mickwalsh8136 Жыл бұрын

That poor little white cottage is going to disappear into the sea in a few years time, I'd sell up now,or it ain't gonna be worth a dime

@randallfrank5682 Жыл бұрын

CCTV? Are cameras everywhere now?

@jibbsey Жыл бұрын

Have you been living under a rockfall for the last 2 decades lol

@keepgoing1973 Жыл бұрын

I used to beach fish right there as a kid. Something like this never entered my thoughts.

@lewstone5430 Жыл бұрын

Who else saw the ufo in the frame for a second?!

@jackcade68 10 ай бұрын

To bad it didn't happen when they filmed Broadchurch there.

@61js 10 ай бұрын

Or a house of commons picnic. Both sides.

@MashLimit Жыл бұрын

Legend says: EnviromentAgency... Was this from BouremouthNews? 👀

@Jeff-ej4wp Жыл бұрын

OMG Global erosion.

@rogerkane5750 Жыл бұрын

its normal ....mother natures doing what she dose

@Tenorgeiger Жыл бұрын

This is England shuddering at the thought of the Harkles coming to the coronation.

@jen9774 Жыл бұрын

😂😂😂

@tomrogers9467 Жыл бұрын

Shuddering at the thought of the coronation itself! Yuck! God help Britain with this twit as king!

@sundance9042 Жыл бұрын

🤣😂

@boris8787 Жыл бұрын

Now that would never happen in Chillingbourne.

@moonjumper66 Жыл бұрын

That day one our earlier i was walking there.

@redzipper8570 Жыл бұрын

water in i go top side caravan walking long long total trot

@ntal5859 Жыл бұрын

Well if you can't spell "Hour" by now it's a shame mother nature missed a chance for a Darwin award, because your mental fitness puts you in prime position for another shot at the title.