Tuve landslide

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{{Short description|1977 landslide in Sweden}}

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The Tuve landslide was a large landslide in Tuve, Gothenburg, Sweden on 30 November 1977. Some 67 houses were destroyed, killing 9, injuring about 60 and making around 600 people homeless.{{cite web|url=http://www5.goteborg.se/prod/tuve-save/dalis2.nsf/vyPublicerade/30E99B73E34D8BDEC1256DA60057AC44?OpenDocument|title=Katastrofen i Tuve|date=2007-04-02|publisher=City of Gothenburg - Tuve-Säve|language=sv|access-date=2008-08-17}}{{Dead link|date=July 2015}} The slide began at 16.05 and lasted 5–6 minutes. The slide affected 270 000 square meters (27 hectares).{{cite web|url=http://www.sgu.se/sgu/eng/samhalle/risker/skred_e.htm |title=Landslides and gullies |publisher=Geological Survey of Sweden |access-date=2008-08-17 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090201033227/http://www.sgu.se/sgu/eng/samhalle/risker/skred_e.htm |archive-date=February 1, 2009 }} About 600 people lived in the area; of these, approximately 200 were in the area at the time of the slide. About 100 needed help by rescue workers. It was the most severe landslide in the modern history of Sweden.

Close to one kilometer of the nearby road was destroyed. It is estimated that three to four million cubic meters of soil were involved in the slide and further would not have fertility to grow crops. The total economic cost of the slide has been estimated to 140 million SEK (15 million EUR, 22 million USD).