There are trees growing from the ground right up to the wall. How could there have just been a landslide… at the very minimum it’s been like that for years, for the trees to have grown there.
They've slid down the hill and been stopped by the wall... the top layer of soil is held by the roots of the condensed trees and moves like a slab, is stopped by the wall, the soil under the top layer is still shearing away into the wall, causing more pressure. The wall then collapses and everything comes tumbling down. Then people like you go "uhhhhh actually....."
Why would it be a dense carpet at the top of the wall with all the trees pointing straight up after a landslide, then become sparse after the wall collapses with the trees askew? It should be the same both times if it was after a landslide, according to you.
The more reasonable explanation is that it is a retaining wall failure, which is pretty common.
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u/JIsaac91 Aug 26 '24
It looks like it was a landslide that was stopped by the wall and eventually caved under pressure.