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 ...

Hundreds of U.N. workers were also forced to flee in the 24 hours since waves of lava began forking from Mount Nyiragongo volcano through villages on its slopes, down through Goma itself and on to ...

Nyiragongo: Monitoring one of the world’s most volatile volcanoesNyiragongo: Monitoring one of the world’s most volatile volcanoes ...

A geological phenomenon is occurring in the heart of East Africa that could ... movement of tectonic plates. Volcanoes like Mount Kilimanjaro and Mount Nyiragongo, along with frequent earthquakes ...

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 ...