The Nyamuragira-volcano, also called Nyamlagira, is the most active volcano in Africa. It is a 3,056 m high massive basaltic shield volcano north of Lake Kivu and NW of Nyiragongo, a neighboring volcano. Lava from Nyamuragira covers 1,500 square km of the East African Rift. The cratertop is formed as a small 2 x 2,3 km caldera with walls up
to 100 m height.
Activity from cracks on the slopes has been known under the previous 30 eruptions since 1882. A lava lake was active from 1921, but dried out in 1938. Lava has in the past century come as far as 30 km from the volcano, even down to Lake Kivu.
Refs.:
- Palache, C., Berman, H., & Frondel, C. (1951), The System of Mineralogy of James Dwight Dana and Edward Salisbury Dana, Yale University 1837-1892, Volume II: 476.
- http://www.vulkaner.no/v/volcan/virunga/nyamura-e.html
- http://volcano.und.edu/vwdocs/volc_images/africa/nyamuragira.html
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