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https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/21-mi...ge-of-crater-after-norway-landslide-1.5857249

''Ten people were hurt, one of them critically, and 21 people remained unaccounted for after a landslide in southern Norway swept away more than a dozen buildings in the early hours of Wednesday, police said.

The landslide struck a residential area in the municipality of Gjerdrum, some 30 kilometres north of the capital Oslo.''

''Around 700 people have been evacuated from the area so far, police said.

"There were two massive tremors that lasted for a long while, and I assumed it was snow being cleared or something like that," Oeystein Gjerdrum, 68, told broadcaster NRK.''

A car is stopped at the edge of a cliff after a landslide occurred in a residential area near Oslo on Wednesday. (Fredrik Hagen/NTB/The Associated Press)

A rescue helicopter view shows the aftermath of the landslide at a residential area in Ask village in Norway. The landslide cut across a road through Ask, leaving a deep ravine that cars could not pass. Video footage showed dramatic scenes including one house falling into the ravine. (Norwegian Rescue Service/NTB/Reuters)
 
Norway landslide: At least 10 people injured and 21 missing, police say
''The missing people were from homes in Ask village, the centre of the landslide.

Police spokesman Roger Pettersen said officials could not rule out the possibility of people in collapsed buildings.''

''Some 40 ambulances were sent to the scene and there was a risk of more landslides as masses of earth were still moving, Toril Hofshagen from the Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate said.

She added the slip was one of the largest slides in recent Norwegian history.

The clay soil in the area may have shifted due to the recent high levels of precipitation, broadcaster NRK reported.''
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Image: The landslide hit a residential area in Ask village, north of the capital Oslo
 
The Scsndinavian countries are thankfully usually spared major natural disasters such as this landslide, but there was one similar landslide outside Göteborg in Sweden on the day 43 years and one month ago. The reason was the same as here, a rainy autumn had made the ground saturated, and that caused the clay soil to begin slide down a slope and drag many houses with it.
Tuve landslide - Wikipedia
 
dotr said:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/21-mi...ge-of-crater-after-norway-landslide-1.5857249

''Ten people were hurt, one of them critically, and 21 people remained unaccounted for after a landslide in southern Norway swept away more than a dozen buildings in the early hours of Wednesday, police said.

The landslide struck a residential area in the municipality of Gjerdrum, some 30 kilometres north of the capital Oslo.''

''Around 700 people have been evacuated from the area so far, police said.

"There were two massive tremors that lasted for a long while, and I assumed it was snow being cleared or something like that," Oeystein Gjerdrum, 68, told broadcaster NRK.''

A car is stopped at the edge of a cliff after a landslide occurred in a residential area near Oslo on Wednesday. (Fredrik Hagen/NTB/The Associated Press)

A rescue helicopter view shows the aftermath of the landslide at a residential area in Ask village in Norway. The landslide cut across a road through Ask, leaving a deep ravine that cars could not pass. Video footage showed dramatic scenes including one house falling into the ravine. (Norwegian Rescue Service/NTB/Reuters)
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Oh, wow. Hoping for the best here...
 
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/10-pe...after-landslide-in-residential-area-1.5858287
Dec 31 2020
''Norwegian rescuers deployed drones and dogs to negotiate unstable clay soil in a search for 10 people still missing on Thursday after a landslide in southern Norway swept away more than a dozen buildings the previous day.''

''Conditions remained challenging, with the clay ground still too unstable for emergency workers to walk on and temperatures registering -1 C in the early morning hours.

The edges of the crater continued to break away, authorities said, asking people not to approach the area. Some 1,000 people have so far been evacuated.

"We are still searching for survivors," the head of the police operation at the site, Roger Pettersen, told reporters, adding that both children and adults were missing.''


''On Thursday, Pettersen asked locals not to send up fireworks to celebrate New Year's Eve so as to not interfere with the helicopters and drones.

Separately, questions were being asked about why construction was allowed in the area.

Broadcaster TV2 said a 2005 geological survey for municipal authorities labelled the area at high risk of landslides. But new homes were built three years after the report was published.''
 
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Rescuers on Friday found a dead body and continued searching for nine other people, including a toddler and a 13-year-old, still missing days after a mudslide destroyed homes in a Norwegian village, the authorities said.

An entire hillside collapsed in Ask, 25 kilometres (15 miles) northeast of the capital Oslo overnight Tuesday, burying homes or breaking them apart.

"A dead body was discovered in the landslide," police said without identifying the person.
One dead, nine missing in Norway landslide

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The police confirmed that they are not talking about a rescue operation, but a rescue operation. Concerned rescue workers hope to find survivors. According to them, this is still possible, despite the snowfall and unstable ground. Rescue workers said that as long as victims could breathe, they could survive for days in these conditions.
A landslide victim found in Norway | right Now
 
upload_2021-1-2_7-58-15.jpeg“This evening I want to first and foremost send a greeting to all of you who are affected by the landslide in Gjerdrum,” King Harald stated at the outset of the address that traditionally is viewed by millions of Norwegians at the beginning of New Year’s Eve gatherings. Most were vastly scaled down this year because of the Corona pandemic.

“This terrible event has made a deep impression on all of us,” King Harald continued. “I feel for you who go into the New Year with sorrow and uncertainty, for you who have lost your homes and who, right now, are in such despair that you can’t see the way forward.”
King offers hope and consolation

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Norway’s police have released a list of missing persons, including children between two and 13 years old, as well as 49-year-old Lithuanian citizen Rasa Lasinski. It is known that she took the dog for a walk and spoke on the phone with her husband before going to work, but the conversation suddenly broke off, as reported by the newspaper “Afterpenosten”, which shortly after the accident Lasinski’s son said.
The search for landslide victims continues in Norway. One Lithuanian citizen is also among the missing persons - Foreign - News
 
Jan 2 2021
Second body found after landslide in Norway; 8 people missing
''HELSINKI -- Rescue teams searching for survivors four days after a landslide carried away homes in a Norwegian village found no signs of life amid the ruined buildings and debris on Saturday.

Two bodies have been recovered but searchers are looking for eight more people believed to be missing.''

''Norwegian police pledged not to scale down the search even though a rescue team from neighbouring Sweden has already returned home.

Local police chief Ida Melbo Oeystese said that it may still be possible to find survivors in air pockets formed inside the destroyed buildings.

"Medically, you can survive for several days if you have air," she told reporters at a news conference.

By Saturday afternoon, a second body had been found in the area, after a first one was found on Friday. Only a Dalmatian dog has been rescued alive from the ruins so far.

The landslide is the worst in modern Norwegian history and has sent shockwaves through citizens in the Nordic nation.''
 
Norwegian police pledged not to scale down the search even though a rescue team from neighboring Sweden has already returned home.

Local police chief Ida Melbo Oeystese said it may still be possible to find survivors in air pockets inside the destroyed buildings.

“Medically, you can survive for several days if you have air,” she told reporters at a news conference.
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Rescue crews work in the area at Ask in Gjerdrum, Saturday Jan. 2, 2021, after a massive landslide smashed into a residential area near the Norwegian capital on Wednesday. The landslide cut across a road through Ask, leaving a deep ravine that cars could not pass. (Tor Erik Schroeder/NTB via AP)
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The exact cause of the accident is not yet known but the Gjerdrum municipality, where Ask is located, is known for having a lot of quick clay, a material that can change from solid to liquid form. Experts said the substance of the clay combined with excessive precipitation and the damp weather typical for Norway at this time of year may have contributed to the landslide.

Norwegian authorities in 2005 warned people not to construct residential buildings in the area, but houses were eventually built there later in the decade.

Spokeswoman Toril Hofshagen from the Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate called the landslide unique in its destruction.

“Not since 1893 has there been a quick clay landslide of this dimension in Norway,” Hofshagen told the media on Saturday.
3rd body found after landslide in Norway; 7 still missing

Fifth body found in Norway mudslide with five still missing
 
2021
Norwegian landslide: 7th body found during search for missing person - New York News Times
''January 4th (UPI)- Norwegian officials said they had found seven bodies during a search and rescue operation initiated in southern Gerdrum following a landslide last week.

Police task leader Bjorn Christian Willerslud told reporters at a press conference that the seventh body was found in a landslide around 5:30 pm on Sunday.


“It was confirmed that the person was dead on the spot,” Willer Slud said, adding that the unidentified victim was found in collaboration with police, police dogs, and urban search and rescue teams.

“We are still actively searching for survivors and will continue to search from evening to night,” Willer Slud said.''

''According to officials, four bodies were found by Saturday after the disaster, three more were found on Sunday, and five victims were identified, including a 40-year-old man and a two-year-old daughter.''
 
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