Coordinates: 62.730°N 8.

064°E

Eresfjorden
Eresfjorden is a fjord in Molde Municipality in Møre og
Eresfjorden
Romsdal county, Norway.[1] It is a 10-kilometre (6.2 mi) long
branch off of the main Langfjorden, which is itself a branch off
the great Romsdal Fjord. The fjord 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.

Just before 8:00 p.m. on 22 February 1756, a landslide with a

volume of 12,000,000 to 15,000,000 cubic metres (16,000,000 to
20,000,000 cubic yards) — the largest known landslide in
Norway in historic time — traveled at high speed from a height of
400 metres (1,312 ft) on the side of the mountain Tjellafjellet into
the Langfjorden about 1 kilometre (0.6 mi) west of Tjelle and View of the Eresfjorden from
between Tjelle and Gramsgrø. The slide generated three Boggestranda
megatsunamis in the Langfjorden and the Eresfjorden with
heights of 40 to 50 metres (131 to 164 ft). The waves flooded the
shore for 200 metres (660 ft) 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 Eresfjorden
boat landings.[2]

See also
List of Norwegian fjords
Location in Møre og Romsdal county
Location Nesset, Møre og
References Romsdal
Coordinates 62.730°N 8.064°E
1. "Eresfjorden" (http://www.yr.no/place/Norway/M%C3%
B8re_og_Romsdal/Nesset/Eresfjorden~190635/) (in Basin countries Norway
Norwegian). yr.no. Retrieved 2010-10-31.
Max. length 10 kilometres
2. Hoel, Christer, "The Tjelle Rock Avalanche in 1756,"
fjords.com Retrieved 22 June 2020 (https://www.fjords.c (6.2 mi)
om/rock-avalanches-tjelle/) Max. width 2.5 kilometres
(1.6 mi)

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