and landslides have
caused both death and injury and done great damage to infrastructure and property in Iceland. In the twentieth
century, 193 persons died, thereof
69 persons
after 1974. Financial cost
between 1974 and 2000
amounts to 3.3
billion IKR.
Catastrophic avalanches in the villages Súðavík (January) and Flateyri (October) 1995, which killed 34 people and
caused extensive economic damage
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