Dagestan landslide

This is probably one of the best landslide videos so far.  It was posted on Youtube yesterday, with the title: “Terrible Landslide in the Mountains of Dagestan!“

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It is a classic and very spectacular example of an earthflow.  The people trying to rescue the car were fortunate, and indeed I suspect that with a winch the vehicle would be recovered.  The rapid transition from slow creep to fast flow, occurring at the point of the screenshot below, remarkable.

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Dagestan landslide video screenshot