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Image number: 2540
Feature : soil slippage
Grouping : mass movements
Discipline : geomorphology
Year : 2009
Locality : Nkingo, Selembao
Country : D.R.Congo
Region - tribe : Kinshasa
Physiographic region : Inter Nsele-Inkisi
Notice : Landslide in a spring amphitheatre of the Bumbu river took place on the 10th of May 2009, has destructed some 70 houses, killed 3 persons. Natural hazard. Natural risk. The picture shows a soil fissure, an inital slide plane along a house in construction.
Reference : Moeyersons, Jan,   2009    Image 2540.   In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/en/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic"