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Image number: 2756
Feature : Mud flow
Grouping : mass movements
Discipline : geomorphology
Year : 2010
Locality : Rwanguba
Country : D.R.Congo
Region - tribe : Rutshuru
Physiographic region : Rift Kivu
Notice : During the heaviest rains of the rainy season, slopes steeper than 25° constantly undergo mass wasting. Here the mudflow arrived in the Rutshuru river and temporary dammed it. Natural risk. Natural hazard.
Reference : BADRIYO Agama Innocent,   2010    Image 2756.   In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/en/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic"