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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]
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.
On the night from the 19th to the 20th June 1996, around 0h30, a large quick clay landslide took place in Finneidfjord. Two residential houses and 300 metres of E6 road disappeared into the sea. [5] NRK came back to Finneidfjord 20 years later, interviewed people who were involved in the landslide and wrote an article to commemorate the ...
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 ...
On the night of 30 December 2020, the area was hit by the 2020 Gjerdrum landslide which is described as the most serious in Norway of this type in recent times. Large amounts of precipitation are considered to have had a triggering factor. Tistilbekken's role in the stability of clay and quick clay in the area has been discussed for several years.
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 ...
Alta, Norway: Alta landslide: 0 Liquefaction of quick clay in coastal location swept eight houses into the sea. Slide was 650 m (2,133 ft) wide by up to 140 m (459 ft) deep. [218] 2 July 2020 Hpakant area in Myanmar
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 ...