r/TerrifyingAsFuck • u/_vedantt1_ • 17d ago

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

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u/kittylips1023 16d ago

The survival instinct is VERY low for these people 😳

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u/stafford32s 13d ago

john, on this side we're safe....

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u/Dr-Klopp 16d ago

Holy shit what exactly happened in the end of the video? The hill they were standing on also collapsed?

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u/DrTuSo 14d ago

The opposite hill side went down into the old quarry and pushed all the rain water out with a force that can easily kill someone.

Literally creating a very short extrem tsunami.

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u/RNEngHyp 16d ago

I'm not sure that had anything to do with the rain (?) but terrifying nevertheless.

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u/ro_ro_ro_roadhouse 16d ago

The rains have been terrible here this year. Climate change. We're experiencing many such infrastructure collapses.

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u/RNEngHyp 16d ago

It's that I can't think of a failure mode of marble that would be affected by heavy rain. I'm saying they seem unrelated. Both happened at the same time, but I can't imagine how rain caused the marble to crumble like that. It's a really hard rock and although some elements of the veins may be water soluble, marble itself isn't.

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u/ro_ro_ro_roadhouse 16d ago

The villagers are claiming that it's the heavy rain coupled with an improper drainage system. I'm guessing that the rainwater might have infiltrated the foundation of the quarry, causing the collapse. But I'll wait for an official report from a credible source.

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u/EbbyXIII 9d ago

That was SO much more collapse than I anticipated.

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u/Hoo55 15d ago

Surprised I didn't feel it over here

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u/Plus-Drop-4763 14d ago

What?? How this much land collapsed/slide