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| Image number: | 2539 |
| Feature : | landslide |
| 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 wide earth slab, which started to slide but only over half a metre of less. Slide plane. |
| Reference : | Moeyersons, Jan, 2009 Image 2539. In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/en/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic" |