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| Image number: | 2538 |
| 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 garden which was in horizontal position before the landslide. The vegetation makes stiil an angle of about 90° with the now steeply dipping surface. This type of rotation indicates the presence of not one single slide plane but of a very thick bundle of slide planes or slide belt. |
| Reference : | Moeyersons, Jan, 2009 Image 2538. In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/fr/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic" |