Democratic Republic of Congo hit with 61 earthquakes in a day following volcano eruption

The Democratic Republic of Congo has reported 61 earthquakes in a 24-hour interval on Saturday Might 29.

Seismologists say the earthquake was due to volcanic eruptions throughout the Mount Nyiragongo volcano, which erupted per week up to now.

The 11,500-foot-high volcano sits spherical 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Goma, a metropolis with an estimated inhabitants of 670,000.

In a every day report prepared for the DRC authorities by the Goma Volcanic Observatory (GVO) it was revealed that the volcano’s crater “continues to interrupt down, which contributed to the earthquake and prompted ash emissions seen from Goma.”

In response to the DRC authorities,  spherical 400,000 people had fled city as officers warned of a second eruption.

The first explosion ultimate Saturday killed a minimum of 31 people. Since then, the world has expert a variety of earthquakes and tremors.

The report warned that lava flows “may trigger asphyxiation, excessive burns or dying.”

The report laid out 4 potential conditions, the perfect case being that the earthquakes stop and that no second eruption occurs.

In a single different potential state of affairs, the report warned that as magma continued to maneuver by way of a fissure in direction of Lake Kivu, there was a danger of a limnic eruption, the place an eruption beneath the lake would possibly set off it to ship particles flying and emit toxic gas. That would presumably be a worst-case state of affairs.

“If lava erupts inside the Kivu River, protect a considerable distance away, as a result of the explosions would possibly produce dangerous ballistics,” the report talked about.

“Fissures would possibly launch lethal concentrations of gases”, the report talked about, urging people to stay away and supervise children in low-lying areas.

The report added that people should take precautions in using water for ingesting and washing greens as volcanic ash might need contaminated tanks.