Nyiragongo is in the Great Rift Valley, where the African continental plate is being wrenched apart, and microquakes constantly shake the volcano. Pebbles clattered down walls. Town-house-size ...

The type of lava erupted by Nyiragongo and many volcanoes in the East Rift zone of Africa, called alkaline lava, has an extremely low viscosity, making it almost as fluid as water. Alkaline lava ...

In Africa, there are four active volcanoes namely Arte Ale in Ethiopia, Ol Donyo Lengai in Tanzania, Mount Nyamuragira and Nyiragongo both in DR Congo Other active volcanoes include Mount Etna in ...

Mount Nyiragongo, located in the Virunga Mountains, is one of the most active volcanoes in Africa. It's known for its fast-moving lava flows and a persistent lava lake, one of the few in the world.

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Plumes of smoke rise daily from the crater of Mount Nyiragongo, a volcano in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Among the main natural attractions are Virunga National Park, home to mountain gorillas and the Nyiragongo volcano; Salonga National Park, the largest tropical rainforest reserve in Africa ...

Residents pick up remains of their destroyed homes from the smouldering lava deposited by the eruption of Mount Nyiragongo volcano near Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo on May 23 ...

An curved arrow pointing right. The Nyiragongo volcano saw its last major eruption in 2002. When it's not erupting, it's home to the world's largest lava lake. Follow Tech Insider: On Facebook ...

Some of the world's most spectacular but least-known volcanoes lie along the East African Rift ... most active and deadly of these volcanoes is Nyiragongo, a so-called stratovolcano located ...