Geology in Action

This is why you should always back up to cliffs that you want to stand on top of, so you can run away faster!

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A little background: In case you were wondering how someone just happened to be filming this, the guy with the camera was "geologist Richard Hocking - a soils and materials engineer for Cornwall Council"; he and others had noticed cracks at the top of the cliff, and just a few days earlier a footpath had been re-routed away from the dangerous area.

I don't think you could run fast enough to escape that. You'd be several meters below the new edge before you figured out what happened.

By Katkinkate (not verified) on 11 Oct 2011 #permalink