Niragongo

Question 1

What is the location of Mount Nyiragongo?

Answer 1

In the Virunga National Park, East-Central Africa.

Question 2

What was the cause of the Nyiragongo eruption of 2002?

Answer 2

Tension released along a series of faults along the East African Rift Valley.

Question 3

Key information about Nyiragongo 2002?

Answer 3

Lava up to 60 km/h, reached Goma with 400,000 residents, on 17th January 2002.

Question 4

What were the primary effects of Nyiragongo 2002?

Answer 4

12,500 homes destroyed, lava covered 80% of the airstrips at Goma International Airport, 200+ killed from CO2 poisoning, 400,000 residents evacuated.

Question 5

What were the secondary effects of Nyiragongo 2002?

Answer 5

Volcanic gases reacted with atmospheric gases producing acid rain damaging farmland, 120,000 homeless in Goma, 350,000 became refugees fleeing to Rwanda, concerns arose about lava potentially causing the release of toxic gases as Lake Kivu contained large amounts of dissolved CO2.

Question 6

What were the short-term responses to Nyiragongo 2002?

Answer 6

Immediate clearing of lava and temporary shelters were provided by the UN.

Question 7

What were the long-term responses to Nyiragongo 2002?

Answer 7

30 new signs that detail the early warning signs, vulcanologists started to measure CO2 emissions in the volcano and Lake Kivu to predict when levels are lethal.

Question 8

What were the causes of Nyiragongo 2021?

Answer 8

A tiny rupture formed in the volcanic cone due to the build-up of stress over time from the pressure and heat of the magma within, rapid rise of magma caused fissures to open in the volcano’s flanks.

Question 9

Date of Nyiragongo 2021?

Answer 9

22nd May 2021.

Question 10

What was the primary cause of death in 2002

Answer 10

principally from asphyxiation,
with toxic gases present in the air.

Question 11

How much aid did the US give in 2002

Answer 11

The US provided an additional $7.5 M in direct funding aid to the DRC to help
with reconstruction efforts