Why do houses remain upright when they are floating off their foundation?

Question

Here is a video where the house remains upright: https://reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/gvzt1e/landslide_in_northern_norway_3rd_of_june_2020/

I figured that the house would have a high center of mass.

In: Engineering

Answer 1

They don’t, at least not for very long. A house is still a rigid structure, but if the ground moves around underneath it it’s gonna come apart eventually.