CCTV captures shocking 1000 tonne cliff fall at West Bay
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- čas přidán 24. 01. 2023
- 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.
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Cliff: "Just a little off the top please"...
Ocean: "There ya go!"...
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 !
who else walked on that beach?
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.
San Diego: I can split a beach in half.
Dorset: Hold my bay.
Atlantic versus Pacific competition. The horror! The horror! Run for the hills! 😁
@@ronsamborski6230
But the hills are sliding into the sea.
@@ronsamborski6230 not even Atlantic: West Bay is in Dorset, so English Channel 😊. No help from big surf.
@@lindaj5492 Thanks for the info Linda.
😂😂
I cannot believe people sunbathe under that dodgy cliff in the summer
It's as solid as a rock!
@@ian_b 😂
Well, I guess the Broadchurch sequel is going to need a different location.
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.
Greta is not happy.
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.
I can hear the screams of ‘It’s global warming’. Not just the waves eating the mud away from the base.
Its not shocking , its just normal beach erosion happening 24hrs a day
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
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.
I find your comment shocking. I’m shocked. Just shocking. We can’t use that word enough, it’s shocking.
@Hector Morales "You keep using that word, shocking. I don't think it means what you think it means."
THIS happens 24 hrs a day?
You would definitely be shocked if you were taking a stroll along the beach and that landed on your head
No I think it would only be slightly annoying. 😋
Like the hammer that fell on paul Pelosis head 😎
more stunned than shocked…
petrified (look up the etymology)
If it landed on your head, there would be no thought or sensation. You would just be dead.
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.. 🙄)
I’m down to check it out
JP Dronography It's ok. Don't be sorry. How will we know if you don't tell us?!😁🙏
Impressive.
Well done!
@@timothya.olmeda7299 Thanks Tim, the hardest bit is trying to put something together before the interest in it wanes! 👍
The risk of a chalk cliff collapsing on you at the very specific moment you happen to be walking by is extremely small.
Cue all the fossil hunters dusting off their hammers and legging it down there.
Wow! The area looks like a scene from Broadchurch.
That’s because that’s where broadchurch was filmed!
This is absolutely frightening!!!!
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.
They learned that from Amerika 😁
😂😂😂
You need to go down to florida and live with the rest of the science denying cousin lovers.
Yup its a Trudeau thing
Don't feel bad, in the US they would have allocated $25Mil
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.
and that is how you close a beach.
The leftmost overhanging section on the left looks very fragile I'm surprised that whole section of beach isn't cordoned off.
Thank you for landscape mode.
как ни странно хорошие места для отдыха находятся на таких вот участках берега.
THIS is why I don't stand on the edge of cliffs like that!
Me neither, nor would I ever walk on that beach.
I see this cliff and think about how epic it would be to slope or ridge soar.
Interesting footage.
Give it a minute, someone will declare the cliffs a public hazard and call for it's removal.
dammit, now I gotta go long way round the mountain.
Very interesting land form, when was this a complete mound?
Very impressive .
Perfect opportunity for fossil hunting….when given the all clear of course.
The rocks are from the Jurassic period. Maybe there are dinosaur fossils in the rubble.
That`s 3 cliff collapses in as many days, one in England, one in the U.S. & one in Australia all captured on camera.
And THATS why you don’t stand on the edge of cliffs!!
Nor underneath them!
New point break, good waves❤
Now there's two beaches.
Have walked over the cliffs in the past and along the beach there. My sister in law lives just up the road in Bridgeport.
I live 5 minutes away from West Bay, this happens like every week it’s not big news lol
I'm trying to figure out who took a scale and weighed that portion of the cliff to come up with 1000 tons🤔
Something crazy is going on because Black Beach Torres in San Diego collapsed 8 days ago.
Heavy persistent rain before both
Wow, took seconds and not millions of years.
The continual beating of the waves just undermines the cliff then gravity takes over, just simple physics
More to do with rain getting into fissures underground and weakening the rocks integrity.
"We're gonna need a bigger silt fence"
Awesome
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
What if you come from across the Channel and haven't got a clue?
@@annemarieboon7778there is clear and plentiful warning signage in these locations.👍
That’s why one should not stand at the edge of a cliff.
Or at the base of a cliff
Then how are suicidal meant to carry out their plans?
Sometimes you just gotta give natural selection a chance.
I got buried in that. Please send to my gofund me account thanks
God bless the panopticon!
This is not the first time that cliff has collapsed.
It's been collapsing for millions of years.......................................
Broadchurch is going to have to relocate!
Did you weigh it?
now people can walk out on all that rock in the ocean to cast further when they fish =)
Spoken like a true optimist and opportunist! 👍 Well done!
The earth's core has stopped rotating apparently. Isn't everything supposed to fall over?
Because gravity has been canceled?
@@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!
@Brian Coady was a joke,
Fox 5, whatever your afraid of, we will cover it in today's broadcast 😀
@@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.
@@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.
I hope they catch the responsible parties and prosecute them
Gosh darn it Poseidon!!! You’re in big trouble now! And I mean BIG trouble😂
@@patroberts5449 Sure sure blame the big guy, sure the Kraken has got an alibi ?
Well, those darn Seattle Kraken! I knew I couldn’t trust them!
@@patroberts5449Poseidon with his trident and ocean storms versus the Kraken and their hockey sticks. 🏴☠️ 🔱 🏒
@@ronsamborski6230 damn those hockey shaped tridents!
Beautiful Upload friend. keep it up. Thank you for sharing this to us. Greetings from Korea
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.
The common factor seems to be that they were "rain soaked."
Why is this "shocking". Its called Nature.
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
Sorry, CZcams comments are only for complaining and jokes. Education and observations were banned long ago
Ancient sand dunes vs the sea. This is what’s hap!
Got them a jetty now.
OMG!
all those dinosaur and titanosaur fossills to go and collect
I ve walked along that very beach by those cliffs on numerous occasions . Thank god not that day
Back in the eighties, I walked along the cliff face while on holiday in Charmouth.
So it's all yr fault..
I wish there could have been sound.
Shocking? Why?
Will the ocean reach Needles?⭐️👍⭐️👍
Auuuggghhh! CLIMATE CHANGE!! RUUUNNNN!!!
1,000 tonnes? More like 5,000 tonnes!
50 or more years ago, used to go fossil hunting under those cliffs.
And then suddenly, one morning, you were fossilized too
@@infinitydreamzz well still here 50 years later.
@@SandyToesDetecting my mistake, it was meant as a joke about the cliffs collapsing on your head.
@@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.
Still people sit right on the edge or tight underneath it .
Falls more regularly than ice from a glacier
Video hasn't no sound.
Or is this the Silence is Golden Vsrsion.
It’s like the British economy going down collapsing
every day
Why is this shocking?
I wonder how long it took the ocean to redistribut all that debris and return the beach to its original configuration?
Entropy in full working order
Legend says: EnviromentAgency... Was this from BouremouthNews? 👀
If that was in America they would have the beach blocked off forever. You know, for your safety.
And yet none of the rim of the Grand Canyon is fenced off!
Shocking ??????
Now that would never happen in Chillingbourne.
CCTV? Are cameras everywhere now?
Have you been living under a rockfall for the last 2 decades lol
This World is FALLING in pieces.
Who weighed it ?
This is England shuddering at the thought of the Harkles coming to the coronation.
😂😂😂
Shuddering at the thought of the coronation itself! Yuck! God help Britain with this twit as king!
🤣😂
So that is how the waterlevel in the oceans rises: the oceans get filled with rock! 🤪
What's shocking about this ? It's the way of the world, the universe even.
Did you weigh it to know it was a 1,000 tons.
I used to beach fish right there as a kid. Something like this never entered my thoughts.
This is what happens when rich people build their cliffs too close to the sea!
That day one our earlier i was walking there.
water in i go top side caravan walking long long total trot
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.
Timber!!!!!
I wdnt be taking strolls along that beach anytime soon
Who weighed this exactly 🤔
Who else saw the ufo in the frame for a second?!
They better have good insurance!
I am so lucky I went on the top of it and the bottom of it and could of died 😢
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
the front fell off
To bad it didn't happen when they filmed Broadchurch there.
Or a house of commons picnic. Both sides.
Investigate the cameraman
Coastal erosion been going on since time began see it often at Beachy Head and surrounding area it happens
Thank you Mr. Obvious.