Eresfjorden is a
fjord
In physical geography, a fjord (also spelled fiord in New Zealand English; ) is a long, narrow sea inlet with steep sides or cliffs, created by a glacier. Fjords exist on the coasts of Antarctica, the Arctic, and surrounding landmasses of the n ...
in
Molde Municipality
Molde Municipality () is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Møre og Romsdal Counties of Norway, county, Norway. It is located in the Traditional districts of Norway, traditional district of Romsdal. It is located on the Romsdal ...
in
Møre og Romsdal
Møre og Romsdal (; ) is a Counties of Norway, county in the northernmost part of Western Norway, Western Norway. It borders the counties of Trøndelag, Innlandet, and Vestland. The county administration is located in the Molde (town), town of M ...
county,
Norway
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. It is a long branch off of the main
Langfjorden, which is itself a branch off the great
Romsdal Fjord. The
fjord
In physical geography, a fjord (also spelled fiord in New Zealand English; ) is a long, narrow sea inlet with steep sides or cliffs, created by a glacier. Fjords exist on the coasts of Antarctica, the Arctic, and surrounding landmasses of the n ...
begins at the mouth of the
Eira River near the village of
Eresfjord, and then it flows north to meet the Langfjorden near the villages of
Eidsvåg and
Boggestranda.
Landslide
Just before 8:00 p.m. on 22 February 1756, a
landslide
Landslides, also known as landslips, rockslips or rockslides, are several forms of mass wasting that may include a wide range of ground movements, such as rockfalls, mudflows, shallow or deep-seated slope failures and debris flows. Landslides ...
with a volume of — the largest known landslide in Norway in historic times — traveled at high speed from a height of on the side of the mountain Tjellafjellet into the Langfjorden about west of
Tjelle and between Tjelle and
Gramsgrø. The slide generated three
megatsunamis
A megatsunami is an incredibly large wave created by a substantial and sudden displacement of material into a body of water.
Megatsunamis have different features from ordinary tsunamis. Ordinary tsunamis are caused by underwater plate tectonics, ...
in the Langfjorden and the Eresfjorden with heights of . The waves flooded the shore for inland in some areas, destroying farms and other inhabited areas, killing 32 people and destroying 168 buildings, 196 boats, large amounts of forest, and roads and boat landings.
See also
*
List of Norwegian fjords
References
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Molde
Fjords of Møre og Romsdal