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Photos from Nyiragongo Volcano | Kongo
Marc Szeglat's Vulcane.net german site writes:
Marc Szeglat's Vulcane.net german site writes:
"Media reports are currently doing the rounds that the Nyiragongo volcano in Congo has erupted. Eyewitnesses describe high "flames" shooting out of the volcano. Photos show a red illuminated night sky above the volcano's flank. Many residents of the city of Goma are fleeing in panic towards Rwanda. They fear that a lava flow could reach the city and leave a new trail of devastation, as it last happened in 2002.
Local volcanologists have been warning for months that a flank eruption could occur. a team is on its way to the volcano to investigate the situation in more detail. According to initial statements by the researchers, there has not been a stronger earthquake. This would speak against a large fissure formation and the leakage of the lava lake, because such a process would have to be reflected on the seismometers, if there are any.
Some voices suggest that the eruption could also occur at the neighbouring volcano Nyamuragira. It last erupted in 2011 in the lower flank area. MIROVA detected a slightly increased thermal radiation with 1600 MW power yesterday, but new values should come in soon that would allow a more precise attribution.
Update 23.30: VAAC Toulouse reports volcanic ash at an altitude of 13700m. Nyiragongo is given as the point of origin. A first video shows a wide lava flow rapidly approaching inhabited areas. A road has already been interrupted. The pictures already speak for a leakage of the lava lake, but a confirmation is still pending"
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