Landslide in Cornwall

Hui. Luckily there was just no one above. A dramatic and dangerous event, but a fascinating sight. With 7 seconds in the video you can see the bottom of the cliff drop the first stone in 12 seconds and it crumbles at the top and then the whole thing slips into the sea!
These are precisely the events that shape our world! Geology is usually a slow process, so slow that we could not not notice. Wind and water are working in small steps and the result of erosion can be seen only when one has a few thousand years.

But every now and Geology is also fast, brutal and dramatic. During a volcanic eruption, an earthquake - or just as a landslide like in the video. Apart from the fascination that the landslide was triggered by the observers, the event had in Cornwall probably not far-reaching consequences. This need not be always so, however. Especially in the wake of earthquakes can often large masses of rock, whole mountainsides plunge into the water and cause not only enormous but also massive destruction of tsunamis, such as 1958 in Alaska . 30 million cubic meters of rock fell into Lituya Bay and produced a 520-meter high wave! 520 meters, my goodness! Says our world is sometimes not very good with us ...

Hillsides crashing it but do not always such a hurry. In my home, in Jena, there are the thieves crib . It's a landslide, which can be quite time. A portion of the slope has become detached from the actual mountain - but then again it's on your mind and just can not get thrown into the deep.

It is always fascinating to witness if you can run like the processes that determine the face of the planet. Then, one only really aware that the Earth is the planet though, we live on, but definitely not our planet and in no case a planet that was specially created for us. The earth is a huge stone ball in and run on a variety of geological processes that take no consideration for us. We can only try to understand them as best as possible for them to go their way - which does not mean that we can not continue to be fascinated by them.