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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 300-by-700-metre (980 ft × 2,300 ft) quick clay landslide wrecked several houses and killed 10 people. [15] [14] On 23 September 2023, near the town of Stenungsund, Sweden, an area of c. 15 hectares (37 acres) was affected by a quick clay landslide, which among other things damaged the E6 motorway between Gothenburg and Oslo. [16]
Ask is the administrative centre of Gjerdrum municipality, Norway. It is around 20 km north-east of Oslo. Its population is 6,890 as of 2020. [1] Ask contains a community centre, schools, kindergartens, a training centre, shops, a pub, restaurants and hotel, according to public information. [2]
The quick clay landslide struck the community of some 5,000 people early on Wednesday, forcing hundreds to evacuate and prompting a tricky rescue effort as the land continued to shift long after ...
A landslide struck a small, snow-covered village in Norway early on Wednesday, injuring at least 10 people and leaving 12 missing as a sweeping rescue operation continued past sundown, authorities ...
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 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 ...
On 30 December 2020 a quick clay landslide occurred in the village of Ask [12] within Gjerdum municipality. 10 people died. [13] The slide measured 700 by 300 metres (2,300 by 980 ft), injured 10 people (including one seriously), left 10 unaccounted for and led to 1,000 being evacuated from the village, with several homes having been destroyed in the slide.