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City Sprawl Responsible For Acceleration Of Deep Landslide Movement, Finds Study

City Sprawl Responsible For Acceleration Of Deep Landslide Movement, Finds Study

An international team of researchers has found that an acceleration in movement of a deep landslide beneath the city of Bukavu, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is due to city sprawl, not natural forces. In their study, published in the journal Nature Geoscience, the group analyzed satellite imagery and aerial photographs of the ...
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