Mount Nyiragongo, near Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo has erupted and the red hot molten magma is reported to have reached the airport in the city which is being hurriedly evacuated.
Some of the videos show the lava flow moving through the city of 2 million which is in between the volcano and the lake shore as below.
This is not looking good for those involved.
So close to an active volcano but apparently no emergency plans in place:
“We are panicked because we have just seen the entire city covered by a light that is not electricity or lamps,” said John Kilosho. “We don’t know what to do. We don’t even know how to behave. There is no information.”
Bloody hell
Because the volcano has an ultra-low silica magmatic composition is it produces very runny (low viscosity) lava. Flows have been measured at up to 100 km/h. Can’t out-run that.
Eruption has stopped for the moment. 15 people reported killed. Buildings and infrastructure destroyed.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-05-24/mount-nyiragongo-lava-flow-destroys-homes-in-congo/100159602
Michael V said:
Eruption has stopped for the moment. 15 people reported killed. Buildings and infrastructure destroyed.https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-05-24/mount-nyiragongo-lava-flow-destroys-homes-in-congo/100159602
Surely some of the people there are more than 20 years old?
roughbarked said:
Michael V said:
Eruption has stopped for the moment. 15 people reported killed. Buildings and infrastructure destroyed.https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-05-24/mount-nyiragongo-lava-flow-destroys-homes-in-congo/100159602
Surely some of the people there are more than 20 years old?
Sure. Why do you ask?
Michael V said:
roughbarked said:
Michael V said:
Eruption has stopped for the moment. 15 people reported killed. Buildings and infrastructure destroyed.https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-05-24/mount-nyiragongo-lava-flow-destroys-homes-in-congo/100159602
Surely some of the people there are more than 20 years old?
Sure. Why do you ask?
There was a lot of noise about nobody told us this could happen.
roughbarked said:
Michael V said:
roughbarked said:Surely some of the people there are more than 20 years old?
Sure. Why do you ask?
There was a lot of noise about nobody told us this could happen.
Really? I read the piece and it was really that they had no internet connection or money to run the monitoring lately.
buffy said:
roughbarked said:
Michael V said:Sure. Why do you ask?
There was a lot of noise about nobody told us this could happen.
Really? I read the piece and it was really that they had no internet connection or money to run the monitoring lately.
Haven’t read the piece yet. Only saw the TV coverage.
Kingy said:
That is a very impressive pic.
Divine Angel said:
Kingy said:
That is a very impressive pic.
Note it is taken from a very long way away.
Looks hot up closer.
roughbarked said:
buffy said:
roughbarked said:There was a lot of noise about nobody told us this could happen.
Really? I read the piece and it was really that they had no internet connection or money to run the monitoring lately.
Haven’t read the piece yet. Only saw the TV coverage.
The bit above the internet connection, “Volcanologists at the OVG, which monitors Nyiragongo, have struggled to make basic checks on a regular basis since the World Bank cut funding amid embezzlement allegations.”
Divine Angel said:
Kingy said:
That is a very impressive pic.
Have some other impressive pics. Doesn’t seem much more impressive than the 2018 volcano Kilauea eruption through Leilani Estates.
mollwollfumble said:
Divine Angel said:
Kingy said:
That is a very impressive pic.
Have some other impressive pics. Doesn’t seem much more impressive than the 2018 volcano Kilauea eruption through Leilani Estates.
They’ll probably think twice about having another gay mardi gras.
Peak Warming Man said:
mollwollfumble said:
Divine Angel said:That is a very impressive pic.
Have some other impressive pics. Doesn’t seem much more impressive than the 2018 volcano Kilauea eruption through Leilani Estates.
They’ll probably think twice about having another gay mardi gras.
Damn! and I have all the lavalee baked spuds to sell.
mollwollfumble said:
Looks like it didn’t reach the airport after all.
It would have been terrifying in the dark with no govt support or believable info.30 minutes ago.
Since Nyiragongo erupted on 22/05/2021, Goma has seen 259 earthquakes, leading to 10 of its 18 neighbourhoods being evacuated in fear of another eruption.
That’s approx. 1m people w/o food, water or shelter.
Kingy said:
30 minutes ago.Since Nyiragongo erupted on 22/05/2021, Goma has seen 259 earthquakes, leading to 10 of its 18 neighbourhoods being evacuated in fear of another eruption.
That’s approx. 1m people w/o food, water or shelter.
Thanks for the update.
Kingy said:
30 minutes ago.Since Nyiragongo erupted on 22/05/2021, Goma has seen 259 earthquakes, leading to 10 of its 18 neighbourhoods being evacuated in fear of another eruption.
That’s approx. 1m people w/o food, water or shelter.
Africa. The poverty is so bad it is impossible to convey. When I saw it, I cried and cried and cried.
Michael V said:
Kingy said:
30 minutes ago.Since Nyiragongo erupted on 22/05/2021, Goma has seen 259 earthquakes, leading to 10 of its 18 neighbourhoods being evacuated in fear of another eruption.
That’s approx. 1m people w/o food, water or shelter.
Africa. The poverty is so bad it is impossible to convey. When I saw it, I cried and cried and cried.
The poverty wouldn’t be so bad if it wasn’t for the ridiculous tribalism and the mind-boggling corruption.
If just a portion of the money from mining companies and similar that’s being funneled into Swiss bank accounts by leaders of a lot of African countries was used to improve things, Africa would look a lot different.
captain_spalding said:
Michael V said:
Kingy said:
30 minutes ago.Since Nyiragongo erupted on 22/05/2021, Goma has seen 259 earthquakes, leading to 10 of its 18 neighbourhoods being evacuated in fear of another eruption.
That’s approx. 1m people w/o food, water or shelter.
Africa. The poverty is so bad it is impossible to convey. When I saw it, I cried and cried and cried.
The poverty wouldn’t be so bad if it wasn’t for the ridiculous tribalism and the mind-boggling corruption.
If just a portion of the money from mining companies and similar that’s being funneled into Swiss bank accounts by leaders of a lot of African countries was used to improve things, Africa would look a lot different.
I agree with you completely about the corruption. I’m not so sure about the tribalism.
It’s a line we in the wealthy countries were fed to explain the genocide in Rwanda. Hutu and Tutsi weren’t tribes, they were job descriptions. The Belgians favoured one group (agriculturalists) over the other (herders) and gave them government jobs. It was clear to the colonisers that people who stayed at home and grew crops were much more intelligent than those who wandered around herding and grazing animals. All villages and town had people of both professions before colonisation.
People in both groups had to carry official cards showing which group they were part of. It was a form of coloniser-enforced official apartheid, based on profession. After the Belgians abandoned the place, one group had all the power and all the money, the other none and they quite rightly protested. Scuffles, protests, pockets of insurrection, etc. It quite quickly escalated and become a genocide.
Outsiders (ie The West, the UN) looked on and said “What can we do? It’s tribal warfare. Probably been going on forever.” And the media spouted that line also.
Michael V said:
captain_spalding said:
Michael V said:Africa. The poverty is so bad it is impossible to convey. When I saw it, I cried and cried and cried.
The poverty wouldn’t be so bad if it wasn’t for the ridiculous tribalism and the mind-boggling corruption.
If just a portion of the money from mining companies and similar that’s being funneled into Swiss bank accounts by leaders of a lot of African countries was used to improve things, Africa would look a lot different.
I agree with you completely about the corruption. I’m not so sure about the tribalism.
It’s a line we in the wealthy countries were fed to explain the genocide in Rwanda. Hutu and Tutsi weren’t tribes, they were job descriptions. The Belgians favoured one group (agriculturalists) over the other (herders) and gave them government jobs. It was clear to the colonisers that people who stayed at home and grew crops were much more intelligent than those who wandered around herding and grazing animals. All villages and town had people of both professions before colonisation.
People in both groups had to carry official cards showing which group they were part of. It was a form of coloniser-enforced official apartheid, based on profession. After the Belgians abandoned the place, one group had all the power and all the money, the other none and they quite rightly protested. Scuffles, protests, pockets of insurrection, etc. It quite quickly escalated and become a genocide.
Outsiders (ie The West, the UN) looked on and said “What can we do? It’s tribal warfare. Probably been going on forever.” And the media spouted that line also.
the old divide and conquer what a surprise
Rwanda aside, there’s a great deal of tribalism involved in governments in Africa.
In Uganda, for example, despite earlier promises to eliminate tribal loyalties affecting government, the majority of government ministers and appointees continue to come from groups in the west and north of the country, and their decisions and actions continue to favour those regions.
Africans themselves consider tribalism to be a continuing bad influence. There’s https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1095249.pdf (English is not their first language).
Search for ‘tribalism in modern Africa’ and you’ll find much more.
