article_snippet.sent: Most people would run away if Most people saw a pile of soil and rubble creeping towards Most people as if it had a life of it own.
article_snippet.sent: But one Russian YouTuber captured the terrifying moment a stream of soil flowed down a bank next to a main road, crushing trees in a bank powerful path and leaving toppled power lines in a bank wake.
article_snippet.sent: The eerie phenomenon is called an 'earthflow' and is a rare type of landslide.
article_snippet.sent: A Russian YouTuber has captured the terrifying moment a stream of soil flowed down a bank next to a main road (pictured), crushing trees in A Russian YouTuber and leaving toppled power lines in A Russian YouTuber .
article_snippet.sent: In the video, snow-covered soil can be seen sliding down a bank at the side of a road, which is thought to run between Novokuznetsk and Bolshaya Talda.
article_snippet.sent: an 'earthflow' also blocked nearby railroad tracks  and caused power outages, but no one was hurt.
article_snippet.sent: Commenting on a blog post on the American Geophysical Union, a user called Michal said: ‘The landslide looks like The landslide may have come from a large coal mine area.'
article_snippet.sent: An earthflow is a type of landslide.
article_snippet.sent: As the earthflow gathers momentum, it can be seen crushing trees in it path, and the sound of crumbling soil and splintering wood can be heard in the video.
article_snippet.sent: It is slower than a mud flow, which can cover villages beneath mud in minutes.
article_snippet.sent: As the earthflow gathers momentum, it can be seen crushing trees in it path (pictured) and the sound of crumbling soil and splintering wood can be heard .
article_snippet.sent: The video shows a stream of water running down the road as the debris falls down the slope, indicating the mass of soil is waterlogged.
article_snippet.sent: In fact, it can take minutes or years for material to move down slops and earthflows can affect anything from a few metres of land, to several hectares.
article_snippet.sent: In The video, the flow of debris is quite fast and the flow of debris’s possible to see industrial equipment toppled at the top of the slope, while trees are crushed beneath the moving earth and what appear to be power lines and pylons pulled down and dragged along by the moving mass of earth.
highlights_snippet.sent: Eerie earthflow was captured in the Kemerovo Region of Russia .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Eerie earthflow left a wide path of destruction, toppling pylons and crushing trees .
  