Stranda is the

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Stranda Municipality Stranda is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Møre og Romsdal Counties of Norway, county, Norway. It is part of the Sunnmøre Districts of Norway, region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Stranda, ...

Møre og Romsdal Møre og Romsdal (; ) is a Counties of Norway, county in the northernmost part of Western Norway, Western Norway. It borders the counties of Trøndelag, Innlandet, and Vestland. The county administration is located in the Molde (town), town of M ...

county,

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. The village is located on the western shore of the Storfjorden. The village has a population (2024) of 2,571 and a

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of . This is the largest urban area in the municipality. The village is the shopping and industry center of the municipality. It lies along

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, and there is a

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connection to the village of Liabygda, across the fjord. The village of Helsem lies about south of Stranda.

Stranda Church Stranda Church or Sløgstad Church () is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Stranda Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is located in the village of Stranda, along the western shore of the Storfjorden. It is the church ...

is located in Stranda. The newspaper ''

Sunnmøringen ''Sunnmøringen'' () is a local Norway, Norwegian newspaper published twice a week in Stranda Municipality in Møre og Romsdal Counties of Norway, county. The paper covers news from Stranda Municipality. It was edited from 1994 to 2007 by Helge S� ...

'' is published in Stranda.

History

At 10:00 p.m. on 8 January 1731, a

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with an estimated volume of fell from a height of on the slope of the mountain Skafjell into the Storfjorden opposite the village of Stranda. The slide generated a

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in height that struck Stranda, flooding the area for inland and destroying the church and all but two

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s, as well as many boats. Damaging waves struck as far away as

Ørskog Municipality Ørskog is a former municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. The municipality existed from 1838 until its dissolution in 2020. The area is now part of Ålesund Municipality in the traditional district of Sunnmøre. The administrative c ...

. The waves killed 17 people. It was the first

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in Norway to be reported and documented in historic time.

References

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