Case Study: Mount Nyiragongo, Congo, January 2002
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- Mount Nyiragongo Congo January 2002
- About
- Steep-sided, active volcano
- Shield volcano, 40km from part of the East African Rift Valley
- Faults and plates stretched apart
- Somali plate and Nubian plate
- Predication
- Increased seismic and fumarolic activity in late 2001
- Cause
- Tectonics in the Kivu rift resulted in a fracture where lava flowed from fissures
- Fissures opened at south of volcano and 3 streams of lava from the lake and drained through
- 60km/h lava speeds, little warning as it reached Goma
- Environment impacts
- Lava covered 15% of Goma destroying 30% of the city
- If the lava reached Lake Kivu or seismic activity disrupted it then harmful gasses may have been released
- Social impacts
- Homes destroyed from ash+lava
- 45 people dead in the first 24hrs, death toll reached 147
- Lava made it difficult to travel on roads
- Cholera spread due to lack of sanitation
- 14 villages destroyed
- 350,000 people fled to Rwanda
- Economic impacts
- Aviation fuel stores exploded as lava flow reached Goma airport
- Lava crossed the runway
- 350,000 people dependent on aid
- Businesses + Jobs lost
- Aviation fuel stores exploded as lava flow reached Goma airport
- Control
- Eruption didn't have much warning but due to the nature of it, 400,000 evacuated
- Aid agencies gave bedding, clean water, sanitation, food, tents ect.
- UN supplied 260 tonnes of food, enough for 700,000 people for a week
- About
- Economic impacts
- Aviation fuel stores exploded as lava flow reached Goma airport
- Lava crossed the runway
- 350,000 people dependent on aid
- Businesses + Jobs lost
- Aviation fuel stores exploded as lava flow reached Goma airport
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