At least 10 people were killed and dozens more injured when a massive rock formation broke off a cliffside in Brazil, crushing boats below. NBC News’ Priscilla Thompson explains that there were previous hints of a possible collapse. Warning: The video you are about to see may be disturbing.
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#Brazil #CliffCollapse #SouthAmerica
So tragic. Horrendous
Geez them having the time to see it coming as well…
stop at 0:35 you’ll see one person did jump out, but the speed of the rock and the speed of the person, more likely rock did hit the person because once jump into the water at low altitude you’re not sinking fast enough.
Poor people.
Maybe a warning before you show that. Not everyone can handle it.
You see kids. Crack kills.
My heart is hurting for all involved.
Hard to watch
That rock showed on the photo wasn`t the same that has collapsed
Yo amo al Brasil 😎
So sad and tragic and important for people to know if you start seeing rocks falling like this to move away. I know it cannot always be avoided but it looked like the beginning of the buildings that collapsed in Miami. Extremely sad.
Hearts go out to all the family’s, MAY God comfort you all
So scary and tragic! There’s no one to blame. Mother Nature is unpredictable. Prayers to the families and to all those there and witnessed.
We brazilians should really be blamed. We are top ranking in every kind of accidents!!! This place isnt completelly natural. This lake is artificial, part of an immense dam. There should be no water there. So these slopes are not safe, they should be monitored all the time, which no one does despite tourism.
No one blame ?
He have time to leave when little rock drop in wather, bur no stay to filming !
Perhaps the loudness of their voices caused reverberation echo and thats why it collapsed a that time.
We need to ban people boating near cliffs after this!
They could’ve blasted it down 10 years ago 😞 praying for all people effected. 🙏
It might never fall. You could just stay out of there. But who knows. You should never destroy anything that’s been there millions of years before you got there (over a billion, in this case) and will be there long after you’re gone.
My humble prayers for all involved. I cannot imagine what they went through. So tragic!
Condolences…
Btw Priscilla.. Speak slowly and don’t have to look so serious. Kind of scary watching you speak.
Wrong place at the wrong time. Nothing could have prevented that.
Bet the tour owner didn’t get the rock cliffs checked….. ever.
Stay home 🏡 lol it’s not even been 3 years. People need to think long term.
Wow talk about bad timing to be in the boats sitting in front of this cliff, or one could argue partly carelessness or stupidity to park your boat right there with the size of the crack in that cliff that had been there for over a decade and any rocks at all falling from the bottom of it prior are an indication to get far away from it, hindsight always being 20/20 the cliff should have been checked out and area restricted or used minor explosives to remove the piece of rock breaking off prior to this.
0:39 You can clearly see at least 4 bodies way up in the air flying the rock hit them like a bomb went off.
That should have been blasted years ago.
The boats name was JESUS.
Like everything else it takes a tradgedy for people to stay away from certain places in nature. What are the odds the cliff’s/rock’s would collapse at the time tourist were on boat’s in the area. Could be the vibration of the motors in the boats in the water agitated the water flow towards the rocks and caused it to collapse. Definitely should have been a sign posted in the area to enter at your own risk, or unsafe area sign beyond this point. They said they knew of the splits in the rocks for 10 years! They’re fortunate that it didn’t cause a mini tsunami from the rocks hitting the water.
RIP to all victim’s
The tragedy is a tragedy but also the weather is changing, i did a shroom trip and met mother earth… and shes angry.
What did Mother Earth say??
talk about bad timing. jesus
People are looking for someone to blame…it’s just the unfortunate nature of nature. RIP to the families affected 🙁
Complicado!
Prayers for Brazil ❤️🇧🇷
Obrigado 💓
Oque vc tá fazendo aqui irmão kk “F”
Nature is cold hearted, anything could happen no one to blame.
“Nature cold hearted” 🤔
My prayers goes out to all the families! My Lord help!
WOW unreal.
Boaters you can hear the rock cracking and slipping…and see the rock is ready to break!
Those people has a second to realize they were about to DIE, unbelievable.
Lol they couldn’t just jump of and swim? 🤣
They were waiting for it to actually fall🤣🤣
So sad…
What the woman said in the end was important, these kind of natural structures are hard to predict especially in huge parks like Furnas and even at the Grand Canyon, but the small rocks falling was a huge signal that something bad was going to happen, and those boats didn’t see it as the signal to exit that area fast. And it’s not their fault, these kind of tragedy is super rare, no one would expect that, those rocks were there for millions of years to fall at that exact day.
@Wanda Sanders do you know how long it takes for a cliff to reach this size and height?
@Wanda Sanders That cliff is about 1.2 billion years old.
@Comenter Tairon According to some Brazillian geologists that cliff is about 1.2 billion years and weigh about 10k tons. That’s insane, so sad for the people that got hit by it.
You do that every day, and you wouldn’t figure on or have seen some larger ones follow? I dunno…
@Wanda Sanders Yes, it takes that long for cliffs to move and develop. Maybe look into it online or take a class on physical science…?
OHHH MY GOOOD! I was screaming the whole time that massive rock slammed into the boats!
pro tip – get out of the way immediately… ahhhh, if only these people knew that advice about falling cliff faces
10 years ago that tourist should have spoke to someone about what he noticed, the crack in the ROCK.
Why in God’s name would you show this? Those human beings were loved ones. No one needed to see this.
We’ve become way too desensitized.
Maybe people will come to understand that when a rock wall is disintegrating in front of your eyes, it’s time to get out of the way. People have gotten desensitized by the safety of the city.
@Orcinus1967 exactly, u can see the people just waiting for it to fall
This is sad and tragic. How close do people have to get to be satisfied? The tour operators must know of the danger. One look at the eroded condition of the cliffs should be warning enough. Any sign of active rockfall should be monitored carefully and taken as a sign to not approach. Prayers and condolences to all the families affected.
Who tf would’ve known? This sht is just bad luck to the millionth degree.
Very true. But in Brazil there is this stupid ideology about minimize public investment. So geologists run out of work and monitoring is not done. This lake is artificial, there shouldn’t be so much water in that place, all these slopes are under an erosion for which they are not prepared.
They should have just blasted the loose rock off 10 years ago.
This world is sick, evil is affecting everyone, everywhere. I can’t imagine what Those families are going. Jesus pls come already.
Jesus Is King !
😪😪😪🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏RIP😪😪
Sending love and strength to all who lost someone. My heart breaks with you.
Wow I had no idea Brazil was flooding
We need to be prayerful why the rock didn’t fall at night when there’s nobody
they died of comicron
Malphite ain’t playing around no more
Sad 😔 blessings to all
When the rock was falling.they didnt even move
🕊️🙏🩸🪔
My prayers and condolences to the family who lost someone they loved in this tragedy and also from this pandemic.
Ooh so bad
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The boat operators should have known better, and maintained a safe distance. At all times
Talk about a rocky ending
Wow so sad I can’t even imagine RIP young people!!
Had plenty of time to move. To busy gawking and takin, instead of warning the other boats. 🤦♂️
this was in a capitol in the state of Minas Gerais, I live next to that city
Keep your mask on people….it’s the most useless thing you can do to save your life. Pay no attention to dangerous rock cliffs and overloaded boats since those are the real danger to your life.
My condolences to the families.
jesus so depressing seeing people with masks, just complete end of humanity
Ayyo
Confused poor person who can’t afford boats here, wondering why are so many boats crammed in this one area?
Mother Nature has no control. You can not predict when things will break. Enter natural parks at your own risk. Just like Grand Canyon or Yellowstone, yes they are extremely beautiful but they are also extreme dangerous.
The water having red in it is what got me 😶 my condolences
My condolences to their family, friends and loved ones. May they Rest In Peace
Hope they were vaccinated 😢
Two of the boats ignored shouts to move away well before the collapse, and were directly struck by the collapsing rock.
I’m going to assume the water/music was very loud. That only makes sense, right?
wow this is just sad, sincere condolences to the families and friends of the deceased, i’m planning to go to Brazil next year at some point but I’m for sure I’m gonna avoid going nearby any cliffs down there, I wanna have fun but also be safe and make it back home alive after my trip
‘Lets all make a paralyzing screech at the time people need to react.” Im just going to say it women in these situations are completely useless.
It’s also sort of a warning scream for others to hear and attend too
Women don’t know much when it comes to real life situations
my condolences
No boats allowed would have prevented it. Government not doing a job yes zir.
Did I just watch people die? 😲🥺😭
Yup..
😭
The picture which was taken by that tourist 10 years ago is GOING to LEAD to a LAWSUIT. This DEFINITELY shows that THIS tragedy WAS in PART a MAINTENANCE issue. The LOCAL government or their Navy Core should’ve COORDINATED to BRING down that PART of the CLIFF…I pray for ALL the FAMILIES affected…#GiveMeJESUS
Nobody could predict when the rock would fall. If ever in our lifetimes
I DONT UNDERSTAND SOMETHING? IN THE SPANISH NEWS THEY SAID THAT THE DANGER OF THAT PIECE OF CLIFF COMING APART AND FALL DOWN WAS ADVISED 10 YEARS AGO!!!! AND TOLD LOCALS AND ALL TOURISTS NOT TO GO NEARBY AS PRECAUTION!!!!!?? BUT WHY ARE PEOPLE SO STUBBORN!?😣 OMG SERIOUSLY!. R.I.P. ALL THAT DIED
🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏
My condolences goes out to the family to the ones that died 🙏
Truly heartbreaking. My thoughts and prayers are with them.
if you are going to follow the reasoning, this structure has destroyed by the engines… what i mean? the pressure ripples by the water hit it’s structure that was “hit several times” until it fell by MAPC RJ (BRAZIL)
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Literally all those people are the dumbest on the face of the earth. I feel bad for none of them.
Idiots shouldve got out the way
I’m so sorry to all the families. This is heartbreaking.
“Wherever you may be, death will overtake you, even if you should be within towers of lofty construction.” Quran 4 : 78.”
Sadly all of them were from the same group and family.
That’s stupid deaths… Why even go so close to rocks
What they were thinking going that close knowing it was about to collapse… so sad people died because of the captain of the boats made a wrong decision.. my prayers goes out to those families
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
What a fail on them to not act on this 10 years ago..their neglect caused this tragedy
Ha ha ha! Survival of the fittest.
So sad
RIP
I watched this like 3 times & it sucks so much to people no matter where in the world they are just trying to have fun & then crazy things happen! Prayers for all involved!
I am sorry for the victims may their soul rest in peace and condolences to the bereaved family. The local government will be held resposible for this tragedy, they should have safety rules before they allowed tourist to enter the vicinity. Meaning check the area if it’s safe for every human being and since it was reported ten years ago by a concern citizen, what actions have you done LGU? We just have one life to live and this tragedy is no joke.
Really thought this was fake looked like them ufo 🛸 videos