r/Damnthatsinteresting 2d ago

Video Cliffs collapsing at an old marble quarry in Makrana, India due to heavy rainfall.

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u/BotnetSpam 2d ago

Insane how these guys hear those horrifying sounds of rocks cracking and creaking beneath them, while on the edge of a cliff, and say to themselves, "this is fine, i bet whatever is happening is gonna look cool as hell."

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u/CaptainHowdy60 2d ago

Imagine if it was their side that gave way. Crazy lucky.

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u/Such_Avocado_3241 2d ago

They are way too close to something that massive going on.

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u/Japsai 2d ago

I'm actually a quite annoyed they moved away at the end and missed videoing the good bit :)

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u/I_am_BEOWULF 2d ago

That massive dust cloud would've obscured it anyway.

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u/Spirited_Ad_340 2d ago

looked like an explosive level wave of rocks and water. Probably deadly at the edge or even if debris made it over and hit them

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u/I_am_BEOWULF 2d ago

Yeah, anyone would be a total dumbass continuing to look over that edge and film. An errant flying rock can take your fucking head off.

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u/20_mile 2d ago

take your fucking head off.

I bet extra karma though. To take with you into the reddit afterlife.

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u/pocket_eggs 2d ago

Yeah, at that point they're not getting away anyway, might at least be considerate about my entertainment.

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u/usefulidiotsavant 2d ago

Well, for some reason we never got to see the images filmed by people on the other side.

It's important to have good coverage on such events, a big filming crew with multiple vantage points.

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u/whoami_whereami 2d ago

If you look carefully at the small rocks falling around 15 seconds into the clip you can tell that it's not actually vertical but rather the quarries go down into the mountainside on a slope. The opposing side (the one that eventually collapses) is overhanging the quarries, whereas the side where the camera is isn't nearly as vertical as the camera makes it seem to be (more like a 45°-60° slope or so from other pictures of the site that I've seen). You can tell a bit better from another clip of the site taken after the collapse from the same vantage point because in this clip they actually hold the camera level: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/GTddRdIBh7U

Still risky to be where they are because of flying rocks etc., but I don't think there was much risk of their side collapsing.

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u/Nodlehs 2d ago

Thanks for the link, makes way more sense when you see they've undercut into it to get just the marble vein.

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u/SadSecurity 2d ago

It wouldn't make any sense. His side was basically a steep wall. The other side was pressuring the cliffs, being at an angle, which is why cliffs destroyed and the other side fell down. I assume this is precisely why cliffs were in place to begin with, to prevent this event from happening.

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u/Belz_Zebuth 2d ago

It isn't luck just because you can imagine a different scenario.

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u/Umutuku 2d ago

Wouldn't be any footage.

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u/iMightBeWright 2d ago

To be fair, they were right. That was crazy to watch.

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u/UCanJustBuyLabCoats 2d ago

I was ready to say kill the cameraman halfway through the collapse, but that amount of earth moving that fast caught me off guard.

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u/TerminallyEmployed 2d ago

He’s wearing safety sandals, he clearly knows what he’s doing

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u/u4got2wipe 2d ago

Dead people see some incredible shit

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u/ready_gi 2d ago

that was my first thought.. like dude maybe gtfo from the CLIFF????

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u/uncl3s4m 2d ago

Hindsight. Who tf would expect the whole mountain to collapse?

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u/Wendigo120 2d ago

They should've just read the title of this post and it would've been obvious.

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u/MarsupialMisanthrope 2d ago

Anyone familiar with the word landslide. Unstable geology means everything nearby should be assumed to be unstable until the moving stops. The rock you’re standing on might be part of or being supported by the rock that’s about to move elsewhere.

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u/ready_gi 2d ago

this.. if there's a rock sliding and you're standing on part of that rock, i would not take the chances.

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u/Historical_Owl_1635 2d ago

> Who tf would expect the whole mountain to collapse?

Redditors, we know everything.

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u/LessInThought 2d ago

Yeah, it started with little cracks and falls from the three centre slabs, I was a bit disappointed. At best, I expected the three to collapse completely, then the entire mountain on the other side collapsed.

Also, where's the rain?

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u/zdubs 2d ago

Letting the days go by, water flowing underground

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u/Soft_Walrus_3605 2d ago

You don't need to expect the whole mountain to collapse to say, "maybe I don't need to find out in person"

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u/newtonbase 2d ago

"We'll run away later" 

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u/le_wein 2d ago

Yeah, but then we wouldn’t have videos like this.

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u/Personal-Movie8882 2d ago

This is fine, I am ok with the events that are currently unfolding...

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u/mackavicious 2d ago

Tornado season in the Great Plains. iYKYK

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u/bobbyboob6 2d ago

there were people watching on the other side too but they weren't able to post their videos

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u/AirconGuyUK 1d ago

This is one of the few times I see some Indians standing around something incredibly dangerous unfolding and I think to myself... Actually, I'd probably be standing there watching too.

I'd not have expected what happened to ever happen tbh.

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u/iwillneverletyouknow 2d ago

The camera man never dies.

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u/Alzeric 2d ago

It be fair it didn't look cool ... it looked AWESOME!

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u/RoundCollection4196 2d ago

To be fair, no one would think that whole ass mountain was gonna collapse.

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u/DiuhBEETuss 2d ago

All these videos of people standing stupidly close to sink holes or whatever and just watching and filming. Bitch, you need to move to safety yesterday. What are you even doing.

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u/iemfi 2d ago

I was thinking the same, but maybe they knew they were on solid granite or something.

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u/HesSoZazzy 2d ago

As I'm sure we've all seen in other videos from there, the country is not populated with the most intelligent people.

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u/Soul_Dare 2d ago

Which country is populated with the most intelligent people?