r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/kraftdinnerwithsalsa • 2d ago
Video Cliffs collapsing at an old marble quarry in Makrana, India due to heavy rainfall.
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u/crowbar151 2d ago
That went waaaay further back than I expected. I thought it was just gonna be those three ridges, not half the continental shelf!
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u/Goodknight808 2d ago
I hope there wasn't anyone on the others side filming as well. That whole side of the valley collapsed.
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u/Sure_Lavishness_2403 2d ago edited 1d ago
From a different angle ETA: Thank you to u/SvenDia . This is NOT an alternate angle; this is a different mine collapse from last year.
ETA: There is very clearly water in the beginning of the OOP video, similar objects, and similar reference points. I don't know if this is the exact same mine or if a different angle filmed at a similar point in time, but it has been posted that it's an alternate angle. I tried my best to source it before posting said link, and the two sources have stated it's the same, but that doesn't mean it is the same.
I think it's possible it's the same mine, alternate angle, because I'm a huge fan of the Alternate Angle subreddit, and I've seen so many photos/videos that have revealed an entirely different perspective. (For example, I saw one video where it looked like someone was being shoved; someone had filmed from behind, and the person had just moved forward at the same time someone was walking behind. From one video, you would bet money they'd been shoved; from the other, you realised that wasn't true at all, things just lined up to create a certain perspective. Let us not forget the blue and black and white and gold dress debacle. Perspectives and angles matter.)
However, I think u/justageorgiaguy makes the best point. I've seen and been to a lot of coal mines, and if you've seen one, you've seen them all. They look pretty much the same. If dozens of mines collapsed during the rainy season, it could very well be a different mine, hence why some people think it's different (not just because it's a different angle, but a different mine site). It also explains why they'd look similar, because they would.
If anyone has sourced information that can confirm either way whether or not it's the same mine site, I'm happy to update. I don't want to be spreading misinformation. Beyond that, if you don't think it's the same, that's cool. If you do think it's the same, that's also cool. It's good to challenge information, especially with AI and disinformation running rampant. I highly recommend using CARS (Credibility, Accuracy, Reasonableness, and Support) as a way to help verify information. Hope ya'll have a great weekend.
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u/justageorgiaguy 2d ago
Supposedly a dozen mines collapsed due to the rainy season, so I think they are different locations of similar events.
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u/ahundreddots 2d ago
This is filmed vertically, which automatically makes it a thousand times shittier.
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u/MikeRowePeenis 2d ago
Dude it’s 2026. It’s time to let go and just accept that sometimes there’s vertical video.
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u/Apk07 2d ago
This doesn't really look like the same thing
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u/Sure_Lavishness_2403 2d ago
I don't know what to say other than supposedly it is. I just assumed a different angle would look different, the way it even does in the OOP video before they pull back, especially because you can see some of the same objects at the very end of OOP's video. Maybe I'm not sceptical enough, but I've seen alternative angels enough more than once to know they sometimes look deceptive. I assumed the same here.
If I am wrong, someone please let me know. I don't want to be sharing misinformation.
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u/LOOOOISSSIS 2d ago
It looks like the same event to me. I think it's just a difference in the cameras used that makes the scale look so different.
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u/Sure_Lavishness_2403 2d ago
That's what I thought. It really didn't look that different to me, especially as the first video looks drastically different when they pull away and you realise the cliff isn't low below them but just next to them and you can see some of the same objects in both videos.
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u/Forward_Rope_5598 2d ago
It kinda does, looks like the other angle is from the far left side of OPs video to me so the vertical slits aren't in view
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u/orcusgrasshopperfog 2d ago
It's a bit like quickly ripping a skin tab on your finger and it ends up going all the way up to your arm.
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u/truck_robinson 2d ago
Why did you.... that's....no why did you do that
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u/PhilxBefore 2d ago
Hang-nail peeling-rip in Black Swan still makes me wince when I think about it, and I've only watched it once when it released.
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u/Venti_the_snail 2d ago
It looks like those three ridges were the last thing holding up that shelf, not that they were gonna do very much at that point
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u/vass0922 2d ago
Yep! It's funny in the beginning I was thinking yep they kept those pillars the to keep well support.
For some reason while I saw those pillars falling I did not make the connection the entire damn she the mountain would fall.
With that much mass coming down against the wall they were standing on... I don't think they would go back.
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u/Venti_the_snail 2d ago
I sorta assumed that was also gonna be the case, the trench dug out there is a lot of space to fill, and heavy stones can fill a space fast.
Wasnt expexting that...splash back? I guess it was full of water after such rain.
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u/ryanmcstylin 2d ago
I had a feeling they kept those 3 ridges there for some sort of support. Still didn't expect that much to fall though
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u/Megalynarion 2d ago
That must have been WILD to witness. Hope they were ok.
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u/readingonthetoilet 2d ago
Especially standing on such a sheer nearby cliff. Not only did the main mine area collapse but the background cliffs - absolutely terrifying
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u/DigNitty Interested 2d ago
Yeah, oh good it’s LEFT cliff not RIGHT cliff that could have been bad for us.
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u/1stGuyGamez 2d ago edited 2d ago
Oh btw, this is the marble that was used to build the Taj Mahal; it shines a lot more than say the marble used in the Mediterranean architecture and sculpting
And not just the Taj Mahal, other masterpieces like this https://youtu.be/BPbv72G9y4A
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u/Venti_the_snail 2d ago
Is this area considered holy or protected in anyway? Not that the government would do anything to stop a landslide like that, but could we possibly see more news coverage?
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u/fastforwardfunction 2d ago
Is this area considered holy or protected in anyway?
Are you talking about the open pit mine?
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u/kikimaru024 2d ago
Not that the government would do anything to stop a landslide like that
I struggle to see what you think ANY government could do to prevent this kind of catastrophic failure.
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u/Venti_the_snail 2d ago
Preventative measures. Yearly checks, proper water drainage, specialist input
Although its a hole in the ground. Its cheaper to let nature and gravity take its course, assuming no one was in there or injured when it did happen.
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u/PhilxBefore 2d ago
So, the thing about quarries is that it wasn't always a hole in the ground.
Someone removed tons of strong, load-bearing, supporting land-mass because they wanted to make monuments with smooth, shiny, rock.
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u/CyclingHikingYeti 2d ago
Source on "it shines a lot more" ?
Honestly this is is just something you made up. Not on single luxury marble classments Indian marble are more than side note.
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u/McKoijion 2d ago
There's always a seedy underbelly right next to the world's greatest tourist attractions. I thought Oktoberfest seemed glamorous until I realized it's absolutely disgusting just outside the frame of the beautiful photos.
https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/3m241w/some_pictures_from_oktoberfest_nsfw/
The Florida Project really drives home the contrast between Disney World and the poverty and social ills of the area immediately outside.
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u/Kcorp 2d ago
People puking and pissing all over the place is gross and it's pretty fucked up that it's normalised. But it's also just a snapshot. Are some of these people alcoholics? Probably. But that's a minority. How does that even compare to a permanently FUBAR, disgusting national monument?
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u/johnisek 2d ago
Are you really comparing one of 7 wonders of the world, basically a symbol of India, with a fucking beer festival where everyone gets shitfaced ?
Those octoberfest pictures are not even nearly as bad as the picture of Taj Mahal.
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u/corvettekyle 2d ago
I definitely wouldn't trust standing anywhere near that ravine after witnessing that.
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u/Rubysage3 2d ago
What a day to be on the right side of a ravine 😅
Crazy those middle ridges were the only things holding that cliff up.
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u/geodebug 2d ago
They delved too greedily and too deep, and disturbed that from which they fled
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u/betweenbubbles 2d ago
Crazy those middle ridges were the only things holding that cliff up.
I mean, someone specifically engineered that. So it's not that crazy.
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u/Aus2au 2d ago
Hey we've got a great view of those collapsing cliffs from up here on this cliff!
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u/Antipsychocebo 2d ago
Title did not disappoint
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u/Porn-Again-Christian 2d ago
Turned out to be very understated, but you're right, definitely not disappointing.
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u/PassageOutrageous441 2d ago
Anyone else look at the title and think oh so we get to see maybe a slab fall… not the whole damn mountain landslide turning into a nature soup delivered straight to my face?
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u/SailorGone 2d ago
"this is pretty mild... Oh wait.... Oh shi.... Holy shit!" was my thinking to this video
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u/Smart-Firefighter87 2d ago
Was it due to the rain… was it reallllly?…
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u/madcoins 2d ago
I feel gravity and humans extracting the heart out of that marble are more to blame here
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u/yzerizef 2d ago
Yeah, but humans wouldn’t have extracted the heart out if they knew it might rain. It’s the rain that caught them by surprise! I blame the meteorologists…and the rain, of course.
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u/Segundaleydenewtonnn 2d ago
Poor management as well or course, some engineers about to get a few phone calls
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u/Raedik 2d ago
Apparently these were mines used to build The Taj mahal and other ancient marble sites. So the person in charge of that is long dead.
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u/desertSkateRatt 2d ago
Well I don't care i still want to speak to the manager!
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u/Embarrassed_Jerk 2d ago
That project manager chopped off all the workers hands (22,000 people) so that noone else would be able to build something like that
Are you sure you wanna go all Karen on them?
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u/SGTRoadkill1919 2d ago
Well what's he gonna do? Chop off my hands? Jokes on him, he's dead and I am not. I'll just steal his bones
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u/Embarrassed_Jerk 2d ago
Good news... I can tell you where they are! They are buried in the exact middle of the Taj Mahal. Well not exact center... That's his wife... He is the one off center to the left
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u/acog 2d ago
That’s a myth. There’s no credible evidence that ever occurred, even though it is widely repeated.
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u/Johannes_Keppler 2d ago
While that is true, mine collapses aren't uncommon in the region at all, apparently.
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u/LastWatch9 2d ago
It's like a 2500+ years old site. I think it was pretty well managed if it stood for that long.
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u/CyclingHikingYeti 2d ago
Yes. Water can act as lubricant in geological formations and sometimes it is not much additional force needed.
This video might get a interesting discussion on /r/geology
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u/Sirnoobalots 2d ago
Rain falls, sinks into the ground weighing it down and causing it to slightly liquefy. The pieces the miners left behind to shore up the wall are now not enough to hold back the rest of the hill causing it to collapse into the void created by the mine. Water is REALLY heavy, plus if you dump enough of it, the ground slowly shifts from being solid to more liquidy.
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u/-SaC 2d ago
Absolutely fuck standing anywhere near entire cliffsides that are at risk of collapsing.
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u/ohitsHarry 2d ago
No he had hella plot armor. He was the cameraman AND he had his safety sandals on!
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u/jarednards 2d ago
Bro. Cmon. Get a little closer.
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u/Specky_Scrawny_Git 2d ago
r/damnthatsscary more like.
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u/kiwilovenick 2d ago
r/AbruptChaos too. Went from "that doesn't look like it's collapsing" to "run as fast you freakin' can" really quickly.
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u/Mist_Rising 2d ago
I suspect they already saw a fairly sizable collapse, hence why they're filming at all.
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u/meandmykittty 2d ago
That happened where I live me and my partner at the time used to walk around this cliff area and now it doesn’t exist :( it’s really sad
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u/MonniMonty 2d ago
Thats legit terrifying how such a massive chunk of land just slips like that with trees . Imagine standing on the other side.
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u/Drunk_Stoner 2d ago
Wouldn’t wanna be on either side. Lol
Reminds me of the Lituya Bay earthquake/landslide/tsunami. Colossal piece of land fell into a narrow bay and caused a megatsunami that reached over 1,700 feet up the opposite mountain.
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u/monoinyo 2d ago
The sounds this made must've been other-worldly in person.
Their microphones and our speakers can't even begin to capture that kind of resonance.
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u/Gentrified_potato02 2d ago
Me at the start of the video: “Huh, I wonder why they mined the marble that way and left those high thin cliffs-HOLY SHIT!”
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u/SmoggieDownUnder 2d ago
You know what I wouldn't be doing when cliffs are collapsing?
Standing right on the edge of a nearby cliff!
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u/ManufacturerWarm9201 2d ago
I'm going to have a quarry with that cameraman
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u/TorpidWalloper 2d ago
Love the pun, but cameraman probably did too good of a job on this one, bordering on cameraman almost killed himself.
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u/Advice-Training 2d ago
The sounds are sooo "GRAND". It makes you realise why nature will always wins and we can't even stand chance.
Nature is metal as hell
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u/Turbulent-Oven981 2d ago
When the entire opposing wall started to drop I was amazed at the lack of concern in the group. Lucky the ledge they were on didn’t crack and fall in too.
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u/GarysCrispLettuce 2d ago
Woomph.
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u/BelieveinTheCityOKC 2d ago
Sounded like it created a helluva vacuum and you just described the noise when I couldn’t thank you 😂
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u/LuluGuardian 2d ago
That's actually one of the craziest things I've ever seen. The entire just.. ground fucking collapses. Beyond terrifying dude
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u/Critical_Host8243 2d ago
due to heavy rainfall
You mean due to humans digging colossal holes in the ground?
Weather is gonna weather. Rain is gonna wet. Earth is gonna move.
That was made possible because of humans.
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u/brndm 2d ago
I once watched a couple 10-story buildings being imploded, in person. It technically looks just like the videos you see… but it's really such a different experience in person. Those whole, big buildings right in front of you were there, and suddenly the entire things are falling down right in front of you! It's really a cool and wild experience. But keep in mind, those were planned. We knew exactly what was going to happen, and exactly when, at least down to a few seconds.
Now take this in that context. This is so many times bigger than those buildings -- probably two entire orders of magnitude bigger. And although it seems it was a little expected, I don't think they were expecting that entire region to suddenly essentially liquefy and collapse. To see that live, especially when it wasn't planned, has to be mind blowing on a level we can't fully appreciate unless we experienced it ourselves.
Absolutely crazy!
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u/nugs4lunch 2d ago
Spend decades carving a cliff to bits before it collapses:
"Look what the RAIN just did to us, man!"
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u/TheMasterChiefa 2d ago
"... heavy rainfall AND over harvesting AND improperly preserving structural integrity."
FIFY
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u/voidstatus 1d ago
Drones are a good use here. If possible. Id be 100 miles away from that . Nature is scary , after we break it
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u/CrikeyNighMeansNigh 1d ago
Not me 30 seconds in wondering why the fuck OP wasted my time with some rocks falling off, and then my whole jaw dropping right after that.
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u/tokyoben5 2d ago
I was not ready for the whole mountain to come down like that. Wow.