Mt Nyiragongo case study

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Where is Mt N?
Virunga national park - democratic republic of congo
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What type of volcano was it and how high was it?
3470m high and Stratovolcano
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Which plate boundaries are involved?
Great rift valley in Africa - splitting the African plate
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What happened before the eruption?
in 2001 - 2 weeks before there was an earthquake measuring 4.8 on the richter scale
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When did the actual eruption occur?
08:25am 17th Jan 2002
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What were some impacts ?
45 died, 1/5 of Goma destroyed,1/3 of airport, most of business centre and 120,000 houses were destroyed, sulphuric lave polluted lake Kiru, earthquakes cause structural damage, thousands need medical aid for respiratory problems, diseases, looting
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What were the responses?
Issued a red alert for Goma + full evacuation, UN bring in humanitarian aid, UN set up camps, cost of providing everything = £15 million, much higher cost will be rebuilding Goma's infrastructure, mass unemployment
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What was the monitoring like?
Eruption predicted a week before by an expert who notified the local authorities - said he noticed small chnages in relief and had monitored an eruption on a smaller volcano which shared a fissure with Mt N
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