Kalehe
Kalehe is a district in northeastern South Kivu Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo . Its administrative seat is the city of the same name, Kalehe , which lies on the west bank of Lake Kivu . Most of the Congolese shores of Lake Kivu belong to Kalehe, as well as part of the Kahuzi-Biéga National Park . The district covers an area of 5,126 km² and in 2007 had a population of 462,465 inhabitants. It borders in the north on the province of North Kivu (districts Walikal and Masisi ), in the west on the district Shabunda, in the south on the district Kabare, in Easter on the district Idjiwi (an island in the middle of Lake Kivu) of the province South Kivu and Rwanda (the border runs through Lake Kivu).
The Kalehe district was severely affected by an earthquake on October 24, 2002 with a magnitude of 6.2 on the moment-magnitude scale . Eight people died, houses and a church were destroyed. Part of a village fell into Lake Kivu, causing small tidal waves ( tsunamis ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ DM Wafula, M. Yalire, M. Kasereka, M. Ciraba, M. Kwetuenda, H. Hamaguchi: Natural Disasters and Hazards in the Lake Kivu Basin, Western Rift Valley of Africa. (PDF; 2.7 MB) Commission on Geophysical Risk and Sustainability, International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics.