Editing Verdal Municipality (section)

===Verdalsraset===
Early on the night of 19 May 1893, the most deadly [[landslide]] in modern Norwegian history, known as ''Verdalsraset'', took place in Verdal. It killed 116 people and at least 500 animals when approximately 100 farms were swept away. A wet winter and several spring floods in the river made the [[quick clay]] under the topsoil in a large area of the valley turn into a fluid. The slide moved about {{cvt|60000000|m3|yd3}} of clay, completely reshaping the topography of the area, including moving the course of the river.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Verdalsraset |url=http://www.geoportalen.no/nyheter/verdalsraset |access-date=2008-11-17 |publisher=Geoportalen.no |language=no}}</ref>