Mount Nyiragongo volcano: 400,000 individuals flee Goma after authorities warn of second eruption
Maj. Njike Kaiko Guillaume, spokesperson for the military governor of North Kivu, said that the Volcanic Observatory of Goma had identified magma under the city that also extends under Lake Kivu. While that magma has partially drained, radar images indicate that the crater inside the summit of the volcano continues to expand, he reported.
“On the basis of this information, we still can’t exclude a ground eruption or an eruption under the lake — but one could come with very little or no warning,” the spokesperson said.
Since then, the area has experienced a series of earthquakes and tremors, some felt as far away as the Rwandan capital of Kigali, 65 miles from the volcano in the Virunga National Park.
Ten neighborhoods in the “red zone” area of the city of Goma are now being evacuated due to risks, with significant cracks in the ground — some stretching the entire width of the road, others in the walls of buildings — already visible. Around 80,000 households have been evacuated so…
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