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5.3 2021–present. 6 Ongoing landslides. ... The most severe landslide in the modern history of Sweden, triggered by heavy rain ... 1950-now Siguas Valley and ...
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]
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).
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 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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...