Volume 17, Issue 2, August 2015, Pages 352–358
John KASHINZWE KIBEKENGE1, Richard BIRINDWA CUBWE2, and Sylvain KULIMUSHI MATABARO3
1 Département de Géographie, Section des Sciences Exactes, Institut Supérieur Pédagogique de Walungu, RD Congo
2 Département de Géographie, Section des Sciences Exactes, Institut Supérieur Pédagogique de Walungu, RD Congo
3 Département de Géographie, Section des Sciences Exactes, Institut Supérieur Pédagogique de Walungu, RD Congo
Original language: French
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The shaking of the earth's crust at any point causes vibrations that are transmitted across the globe. This movement has the effect of inducing in the soil and in the works of rapidly varying inertial forces over time. Its action is exerted essentially dynamic way, but it takes on different aspects in structures, soil. Is recorded structural damage equipment and manpower.
South Kivu province, mainly the city of Bukavu and the neighboring countries were shaken by a violent earthquake, among the rarest recorded in the region, to Sunday 03/02/2008 9:34 local time (7:34 'GMT) . The 6.3 magnitude earthquake on the scale of RICTHER had its epicenter, according to the seismological observatories NSRF / Lwiro, around Birava in the same province, 20 km north of Bukavu, whose home was 33 km deep, according to still the same source (shallow earthquake: less than 60Km). It lasted about 20 seconds. This tectonic phenomenon has generated much of the damage as well geomorphological, material as humans.
Author Keywords: Earthquake, tectonic phenomenon.
John KASHINZWE KIBEKENGE1, Richard BIRINDWA CUBWE2, and Sylvain KULIMUSHI MATABARO3
1 Département de Géographie, Section des Sciences Exactes, Institut Supérieur Pédagogique de Walungu, RD Congo
2 Département de Géographie, Section des Sciences Exactes, Institut Supérieur Pédagogique de Walungu, RD Congo
3 Département de Géographie, Section des Sciences Exactes, Institut Supérieur Pédagogique de Walungu, RD Congo
Original language: French
Copyright © 2015 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
The shaking of the earth's crust at any point causes vibrations that are transmitted across the globe. This movement has the effect of inducing in the soil and in the works of rapidly varying inertial forces over time. Its action is exerted essentially dynamic way, but it takes on different aspects in structures, soil. Is recorded structural damage equipment and manpower.
South Kivu province, mainly the city of Bukavu and the neighboring countries were shaken by a violent earthquake, among the rarest recorded in the region, to Sunday 03/02/2008 9:34 local time (7:34 'GMT) . The 6.3 magnitude earthquake on the scale of RICTHER had its epicenter, according to the seismological observatories NSRF / Lwiro, around Birava in the same province, 20 km north of Bukavu, whose home was 33 km deep, according to still the same source (shallow earthquake: less than 60Km). It lasted about 20 seconds. This tectonic phenomenon has generated much of the damage as well geomorphological, material as humans.
Author Keywords: Earthquake, tectonic phenomenon.
Abstract: (french)
L'ébranlement de la croûte terrestre en un point quelconque provoque des vibrations qui se transmettent à travers le globe. Ce mouvement a pour effet d'induire dans le sol et dans les ouvrages des forces d'inertie rapidement variables dans le temps. Son action s'exerce donc de façon essentiellement dynamique, mais elle revêt des aspects différents dans les structures, dans le sol. On enregistre des dégâts structuraux matériels et humains. La province du Sud-Kivu, principalement la ville de Bukavu et les contrées voisines ont été secouées par un violent séisme, parmi les plus rares enregistrés dans la région, le dimanche 03/02/2008 à 09h34' heure locale (7h34' GMT). Ce séisme de magnitude 6,3 sur l'échelle de Richter avait comme épicentre, selon les observatoires séismologiques du Centre de Recherche en Sciences Naturelles de Lwiro, C.R.S.N/Lwiro en sigle, aux environs de Birava dans la même province à 20 Km au nord de la ville de Bukavu et dont le foyer se situait à 33 Km de profondeur, selon toujours la même source (séisme superficiel: inférieur à 60Km). Il a duré environs 20 secondes. Ce phénomène tectonique a engendré bien des dégâts aussi bien géomorphologiques, matériels qu'humains.
Author Keywords: Tremblement de terre, Echelle de Richter, Séisme, Catastrophe, Ebranlement.
How to Cite this Article
John KASHINZWE KIBEKENGE, Richard BIRINDWA CUBWE, and Sylvain KULIMUSHI MATABARO, “TREMBLEMENT DE TERRE DANS LA PROVINCE DU SUD-KIVU DU 03/02/2008 ET SES CONSÉQUENCES SUR LA VILLE DE BUKAVU,” International Journal of Innovation and Scientific Research, vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 352–358, August 2015.
