A mesmerizing video filmed the other day in eastern Tibet shows an amazing lava-shaped landslide moving down a gentle green slope. Numerous spectators are standing nearby, amazed by this surreal picture.
The Tibetan's astounding recording instantly went viral on social media, video hosting and other sites, garnering millions of views. Users of the World Wide Web began to puzzle over what it is: a rare natural phenomenon or even something supernatural.
Experts say that this is a completely understandable, albeit very rare phenomenon. This, they say, is the so-called earthen stream. Such landslides are rather slow, so they hardly pose any danger to humans. Nevertheless, the force of the stream is so high that it will stop only in the nearest lowland. It turns out that the family, whose home was in the path of this fantastic landslide, has already lost its house and car.
Scientists suggest that the permafrost melting is to blame, as a result of which the topsoil has shifted downward and formed an earth landslide. Something similar, for example, happened the other day in one of the schools in the Tyumen region, where the ground fell under the feet of one of the schoolchildren, who literally in a matter of seconds found himself deep underground, as a result of which he died. Although the eleven-year-old boy was taken out of this "natural grave", unfortunately, they could not save it …