The silence was the scariest part to me. Just the sound of power lines dancing across the road. Wow!

W T F ?

Kinda looks like a mudflow....

Now that's what I call *quality *wtf

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If you look at the video, you can see what appears to be mining equipment just behind the flow and if you look later in the video you can see that the hills behind the flow appear to have been heavily mined/stripped. Looks like this was probably caused by man stripping out all of the trees, grass and vegetation. Screw around with the balance of nature enough and you will get occurrences like this.

"In Soviet Russia... etc. etc. holy shit."

Spooky is the tamest label I could apply to this.

Nice observation.

Yeah this is a regional catastrophe for humans. It's upsetting that it's generally presented so laissez faire.

The Bolshaya Talda earthflow in Russia was a mine waste failure

http://blogs.agu.org/landslideblog/2015/04/20/bolshaya-talda-1/

While I don't doubt the hills have been mined or deforested, the structures you see I believe are high voltage trunk line supports, not cranes and drag lines.

The White Walkers have returned. You know nothing, Jon Snow.

The scary thing is that while in Australia it seems like the wildlife tries to kill you, in Russia it seems like the earth itself wants you dead.

Well, that and meteorites.

and winter...

Agree, you can clearly see their ceramic wire insulators at 1:45.

As to what caused it, looks like melt water caused lubrication between an extended slanted field of topsoil and a clay base. I live near a beach with a eighty-foot cliff that's quite similar, and in the earliest spring, large chunks of it slide down along that wet clay to pool at the bottom. In this case, the hills are so distant that the pressure became huge enough to completely bulldoze everything in front of it.

I dub it a "slowvalanche".

Mud Golem.

Mudslide: Slow Zombie version.

Execution via slowvalanche. Lay down before the destroyer of landscapes.