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Mount Nyiragongo, whose name handily doubles as the precise noise you'd very briefly make if you fell into its lava, is scary.
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In the early 1970s, she backpacked throughout Africa with her husband and climbed Mount Nyiragongo in Congo a few years before the volcano's massive eruption in 1977.
Obituaries: Jerry Perry, Anne Lipnick, Joseph Marion Jr., Leonard Joyce, Mildred Eliot die 2010
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The volcano whose blue-green bulk looms above the dusty, lakeside city of Goma, Mount Nyiragongo, erupted, sending a smoking river of lava several hundred yards wide through the center of town and sizzling into the waters of Lake Kivu.
Rape of the Congo Hochschild, Adam 2009
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When Mount Nyiragongo last erupted in 2002, half of the city of Goma was destroyed and the rest of the area was flooded with lava, which remains to this day.
Georgianne Nienaber: Volcanic Eruptions Threaten Beleaguered Eastern Congo 2009
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On the airstrip under the active volcano Mount Nyiragongo, an Antonov AN-12 cargo plane prepares to leave Goma.
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At least 14 villages north of town were destroyed by three rivers of lava flowing from Mount Nyiragongo, 48 kilometers (30 miles) to the north.
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A second lava flow poured forth from a fissure at the base of Mount Nyiragongo, 10 kilometers (six miles) from the new cone, and about 20 kilometers (12 miles) northeast of Goma.
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Britain said Friday it will give 2 million pounds (dlrs 2.9 million) to help the victims of the Mount Nyiragongo volcano eruption in eastern Congo.
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Like two spokes extending from Mount Nyiragongo, lava flows 50 meters (160 feet) wide and up to 3-meters (10 feet) deep in places, cutting through the city.
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Hundreds of the refugees have begun returning to Goma, where two lava flows from Mount Nyiragongo and a third flow from a recently formed volcanic crater have destroyed about 40 percent of the city of 500,000 people.
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