Ask is the administrative centre of
Gjerdrum municipality,
Norway
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. It is around 20 km north-east of
Oslo
Oslo ( or ; ) is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. The municipality of Oslo had a population of in 2022, while the city's greater urban area had a population of 1,064,235 in 2022 ...
. Its population is 6,890 as of 2020.
Ask contains a community centre, schools, kindergartens, a training centre, shops, a pub, restaurants and hotel, according to public information.
The name
The centre is named after the old farm Ask. The farm name (Old Norse: ''Askr'') means "ash tree".
2020 landslide
In the early hours of 30 December 2020 a
quick clay 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 ...
, leaving a crater measuring 300 by 700 meters, killed at least seven people, and injured many others, destroying several buildings.
As of Tuesday, 5 January 2021, Norwegian authorities stated their hopelessness of finding any more survivors. Three people were still missing since what has been remarked as "among the worst (landslides) in modern Norwegian history," which destroyed at least 9 buildings containing over 30 apartments, with at least 1,000 known evacuees evacuated out of the village of more than 6,000 residents.
References
External links
Ask Public Library
Villages in Akershus
Gjerdrum
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