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gravity collecting its debt from the mountain, all at once, no payment plan.
means A rockslide is the sudden, fast downhill movement of a mass of loose rock down a slope or cliff face.
from A plain English compound, bolting together "rock" and "slide." "Rock" descends from Old English and Old French stock (the French "roche," of debated and possibly pre-Latin origin), while "slide" comes from Old English "slīdan," to glide or slip — a word whose soft, slick sound has meant smooth downward motion for over a thousand years. Together they're a relatively modern geological pairing, the kind of self-explaining term that needs no further excuse: rocks, sliding.
- top speed
- can exceed 100 miles per hour downhill
- air cushion
- rocks ride trapped air, sliding farther than physics suggests
- trigger
- rain, quakes, or one badly placed footstep
- the sound
- witnesses describe a freight train with no tracks
- frozen giants
- Frank Slide buried an Alberta town in 100 seconds
oso washington mudslide 2014 — devastating rockslide near oso that killed 43 people in snohomish county
vaiont dam italy 1963 — massive rockslide into reservoir that caused 2000+ deaths from resulting tsunami waves