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A number of homes in northern Norway collapsed into the sea on Wednesday due to a powerful landslide. Around 4 p.m. local time, authorities first received reports of the incident in Alta, a town ...
The 2020 Gjerdrum landslide was a quick clay landslide that occurred in the early hours of 30 December 2020 at Ask village, the administrative centre of Gjerdrum, Norway.It spanned a flow off area of 300 by 700 metres (980 by 2,300 ft) and additionally affected 9 hectares (22 acres) by debris flow.
The Alta landslide occurred on 3 June 2020 in Alta Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway near Kråkneset, a small village about 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) southeast of the larger village of Talvik, Altafjorden. The landslide developed on a marine clay substrate that had originally formed in the early Holocene epoch when the area was under sea level.
Storegga (Norwegian: Great Edge) is located at the edge of Norway's continental shelf in the Norwegian Sea, 100 km (62 mi) north-west of the Møre coast. In around 6200 BCE, structural failures of the shelf caused three underwater landslides, which triggered very large tsunamis in the North Atlantic Ocean.
The village sits about 20 miles outside of Oslo, Norway’s capital, and the natural disaster created a mass of muddy earth scarring the residential landscape. 4 bodies found after Norway ...
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 ...
The largest landslide in Norway in historic time. [49] 10 Jun 1786 Kangding-Luding area, Sichuan, southwestern China: 1786 Kangding-Luding earthquake: A M 7.75 earthquake on 1 June triggered a large landslide that created a 70-metre (230 ft) high landslide dam in the Dadu River. The dam failed catastrophically on 10 June, the resulting flood ...
The landslide happened in Alta, a town located on the northern coast of Norway. Skip to main content. Sign in. Mail. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ...