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Nyamuragira volcano eruption 2011-12:

Nyamuragira volcano (DRCongo), Kimanura eruption 2011-12: expedition (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer)

Nyamuragira volcano (DRCongo), Kimanura eruption 2011-12: expedition (32 Images)

Nyamuragira volcano (DRCongo), Kimanura eruption 2011-12: landscape (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer)

Nyamuragira volcano (DRCongo), Kimanura eruption 2011-12: landscape (28 Images)

We undertook an expedition to Nyamuragira's current eruption at the new cones called Kimanura and stayed 3 nights from 22-25 January 2012.
Thanks for granting access goes to the Virunga National Park, and to the rangers - in particular Diego - and porters who made it possible to spend time there! (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer)

Nyamuragira volcano Kimanura eruption 2011-12: photos 22-25 Jan (32 Images)

During expedition to Nyiragongo in Jan 2012, we undertook a side trip to see Nyamuragira still in eruption. Lorraine sent us the following impressions taken 8 Jan.
"Trip was incredible – this was most definitely the highlight. We were incredibly lucky – our viewpoint was better than when the eruption first started due to the orientation of the new cone.
Lorraine" (Photo: Lorraine Field)

Nyamuragira volcano eruption 2011-2012: photos 8 Jan 2012 (16 Images)

Our friend Paul Hloben visited the eruption site on 19-20 November (special permit was needed to stay more than one night). A selection of his photos are here. He notes: "The eruption changed from the earlier continuous lava fountaining to almost continuous strombolian-type activity (blasts every second or so). According GVO weekly reports it seems a normal development. This type of activity was exactly what Haroun Tazieff described seeing N-gira in the spring of 1948 in Crateres en Feu: “Every twitch of anger was followed by a brief moment of calm. Brown or blue, the smoke rose in heavy spirals, while a deafening roar, similar to a monstrous hound, rocked the volcano. The nerves had no time to relax, so close was another sudden tremor, another explosion, the return of the incandescence, start of a new volley. The bombs of lava rose with a drone.”
We observed from south (as per Virunga NP blog description). There were definitely 3 craters erupting along the approximately WE fissure (not 100% sure about the direction). There was probably one or 2 more vents spitting lava, difficult to say (as per my video scrutinizing)." (Photo: Paul Hloben)

Nyamuragira volcano (DR Congo) eruption 2011 photos: 19-20 November (15 Images)

We present a selection of photos taken by Gian Schachenmann who went to the eruption site on 5 Nov as part of one of the first groups to arrive there (contact info: gianms (AT) gmail (DOT) com)
(Photo: Gian Schachenmann)

Nyamuragira volcano (DR Congo): photos of the new eruption Nov 2011 (7 Images)

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