Several houses have been swept into the sea following a powerful landslide in Alta municipality, northern Norway, on Wednesday.. Anders Bjordal, a Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate ...

A freak landslide in Norway has swept at least eight ... were pushed into the sea on Wednesday in the slide of quick clay in the Alta municipality in northern Norway — a rare event in ...

Several houses were swept into the sea after a powerful landslide in northern Norway. Watch the dramatic video and see photos from the scene here. Watch as landslide sweeps houses into sea in Norway ...

Several houses have been swept into the sea following a powerful landslide in Alta municipality, northern Norway, on Wednesday. Posted 2020-06-04T15:50:15+00:00 - Updated ...

The exact cause of the landslide has not been announced, but authorities expect excessive rain in recent weeks may have contributed. “Not since 1893 has there been a quick clay landslide of this ...

“Not since 1893 has there been a quick clay landslide of this dimension in Norway,” Hofshagen told Norwegian media on Saturday. More to Read Avalanche buries 3 skiers near Anchorage, officials say ...

Quick clay is also found elsewhere in Norway and Sweden, but the government agency said in a statement that it was 'unlikely that similar large landslides' would occur elsewhere in the region for now.

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Quick clay is a sort of clay found in Norway and Sweden that can collapse and turn to fluid when overstressed. "The area has been surveyed earlier, and is known to contain quick clay.