Nyiragongo Vents Steam

When the African volcano Nyiragongo erupted unusually fluid lava in January 2002, nearly 500,000 Congo citizens were displaced, and dozens were killed. The lava did not erupt from the central crater, but instead ran from fissures along the southern slopes, just north of the city of Goma.

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Image by Russell Simmons, Robert L. Nusbaum, and Steven Jaumé, Geology and Environmental Geosciences, College of Charleston; Charleston, South Carolina.

Published May 8, 2007
Data acquired February 21, 2005

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