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A landslide in which the sliding surface is located within the soil mantle or weathered bedrock (typically to a depth from few decimeters to some meters) is called a shallow landslide. Debris slides and debris flows are usually shallow. Shallow landslides can often happen in areas that have slopes with high permeable soils on top of low ...
Date Place Name/article Position Volume Comments Sources 1.4 Ma off northern Molokai, Hawaii: Wailau Slide 2,500 km 3: The northern third of East Molokai Volcano collapsed suddenly into the Pacific Ocean in a 25-mile (40 km) wide landslide with a 120-mile (193 km) run-out that climbed uphill 900 feet (274 m) from the Hawaiian Trough over the last 80 miles (130 km).
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 ...
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]
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 ...
This Swedish photograph is in the public domain in Sweden because one of the following applies: The photograph does not reach the Swedish threshold of originality (common for snapshots and journalistic photos) and was created before 1 January 1974 (SFS 1960:729, § 49a).
In his latest report, he noted that the landslide continues to affect new areas, moving in some spots as much as 13 inches a week. For decades, most areas saw movement closer to a few inches a ...