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Image number: 2774
Feature : landslide
Grouping : mass movements
Discipline : geomorphology
Year : 2011
Locality : Kandibula
Country : D.R.Congo
Region - tribe : Uvira
Physiographic region : Rift-Albertine
Notice : The Kandibula landslide as seen in 2011 from GoogleEarth. The landslide did develop as a result of wall instability of a huge gully. Now the landslide lobe is slowly progressing and threating the town of Uvira
Reference : Google Earth,   2011    Image 2774.   In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/de/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic"