HR: 1330h
AN: V23A-12    [Abstracts]
TI: Lanslide Disaster in Wabane Cameroon
AU: * Atemnkeng, A P
EM: preciasong@yahoo.com
AF: B:Biogeosciences, University Of Yaounde 1,Ecole Normale Superieure Annexe Bambili, Geography Department,, Bamenda, NW 591 Cameroon
AB: The landslide disaster that occurred in Wabane, Cameroon, on 20th July 2003 killed 21 people. The area where the landslide occurred (Magha) is a caldera, with hot springs. The landslide was accompanied by earth fractures and people smelled gas characteristic of gun powder immediately following the incidence. The evidence above seem to suggest that there are some other forces acting underground. Renewed volcanic activity may be associated with the frequent landslide activity experienced in this part of Cameroon. If this is true, it could mean that magma is up welling in the caldera. Therefore there may be a greater disaster in the making and this is what the local Wabane population is not very aware of.
DE: 0400 Biogeosciences
SC: Volcanology, Geochemistry, Petrology [V]
MN: 2005 Joint Assembly