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TSUNAMI CAUSES SERIOUS DAMAGE TO AÂ NORWEGIAN VILLAGE OF NORD-STATLAND
At about 4:30 on Wednesday afternoon, the small Norwegian village of Nord-Statland was struck by a localised tsunami, which reports have suggested was as high as 15 m (though this looks unlikely). The village is located in Nord-Trøndelag, as shown below in Google Earth:
The cause of the Nord-Statland tsunami
The highly localised impacts of this tsunami, and the lack of sesmicity, suggest that this was a landslide-induced event.  Reports (in Norwegian) suggest that there was a landslide on the other side of the fjord. However, according to this report, the landslide scar is too small to have caused the observed tsunami, which suggests that the cause was a submarine landslide within the fjord.  This report (also in Norwegian) suggests that the cause may have been new houses and a marina under construction close to the village – as far as I can tell it is describing these houses:
The suggestion is that the disposal of spoil from these works triggered an underwater slide that in turn generated the tsunami. Whatever the cause, the upshot is that 57 people have been evacuated, but fortunately no-one was killed. The damage to this small village looks to be very serious, including a million fish in a smolt plant. The effects could have been much worse if the landslide had occurred in the summer.
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