Earthquake on Lake Tanganyika in 2005
The earthquake on Lake Tanganyika occurred on December 5, 2005 at 12:19:55 UTC (14:19:55 local time) in eastern Congo and had a magnitude of 6.8.
UN employees announced that people were killed in the process. The greatest damage occurred in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, especially in the city of Kalemie , which is located directly on the lake and only 55 km from the epicenter . Numerous refugees from the Congo War live in this region .
The tremors, which the US Geological Survey measured were still at the coast of Kenya and in Nairobi to feel that is km around 975th Some less populated regions in Burundi , Zambia and Tanzania were also affected , as well as the capital of Rwanda, Kigali .
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Coordinates: 6 ° 11 ′ 38.4 ″ S , 29 ° 36 ′ 54 ″ E