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The landslide at Surte in Sweden, 1950. It was a quick clay slide that killed one person. Landslides occur when the slope (or a portion of it) undergoes some processes that change its condition from stable to unstable.
Landslide created the currently level floor of Zion Canyon inside Zion National Park. [21] ~1920 BCE Jishi Gorge, Qinghai Province, China: Jishi Gorge outburst flood: 0.040–0.080 km 3: Landslide dammed the Yellow River, breach of dam may have caused the Great Flood of Gun-Yu [22] ~1100 BCE Mount Storm King, Washington, United States 7.2 MCM
The Tuve landslide was a large landslide in Tuve, Gothenburg, Sweden on 30 November 1977. Some 67 houses were destroyed, killing 9, injuring about 60 and making around 600 people homeless. [1] The slide began at 16.05 and lasted 5–6 minutes. [1] The slide affected 270 000 square meters (27 hectares). [2]
The area surrounding Stenungsund is prone to quick clay landslides, with several large landslides occurring in the area in the past. [7] Göran Sällfors [], Professor Emeritus of Geology and Geotechnics at Chalmers University of Technology, identified a similarity to a landslide that occurred in 2006 approximately 50 kilometres north in Småröd [], with the cause being "large amounts of ...
A landslide in western Sweden caused a huge sinkhole on a major highway to Norway early Saturday, and three people were injured when their cars and a bus skidded off the road, police said. Photos ...
Global multihazard mortality risks and distribution (2005) for cyclones, drought, earthquakes, floods, landslides, and volcanoes (excluding heat waves, snowstorms, and other deadly hazards). A natural disaster is a sudden event that causes widespread destruction, major collateral damage, or loss of life, brought about by forces other than the ...
A large chunk of a motorway in southwest Sweden collapsed overnight, causing three people to be taken to hospital with light injuries, police said on Saturday. Landslide causes motorway to ...
2018 Sweden wildfires; T. Tuve landslide This page was last edited on 29 January 2019, at 03:02 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...