The type of lava erupted by Nyiragongo and many volcanoes in the East Rift zone of Africa, called alkaline lava, has an extremely low viscosity, making it almost as fluid as water. Alkaline lava ...

This is the question that has brought two of the world's leading volcano scientists to the center of Africa; it's the question ... When will Nyiragongo erupt? Nyiragongo is a two-mile-high volcano ...

In 1977, Mount Nyiragongo produced the deadliest eruption in Africa ... volcano near Goma, in the Democratic Republic of Congo May 23, 2021. [Reuters] A separate lava flow that headed east over ...

An curved arrow pointing right. The Nyiragongo volcano saw its last major eruption in 2002. When it's not erupting, it's home to the world's largest lava lake. Follow Tech Insider: On Facebook ...

On the streets I once walked and drove down daily, near the shopping centre where I bought my groceries, dead bodies lay ...

Other notable cities include Lubumbashi, the main mining center of the country; Goma, located by Lake Kivu and known for its proximity to the Nyiragongo volcano ... Africa, and the Middle East.

Some of the world's most spectacular but least-known volcanoes lie along the East African Rift ... most active and deadly of these volcanoes is Nyiragongo, a so-called stratovolcano located ...