Nyamuragira and Nyiragongo,               

   Democratic Republic of the Congo            

 

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B. Martinelli, 1994, courtesy Jack Lockwood of the USGS, http://www.volcano.si.edu/world/volcano.cfm?vnum=0203-03=&VErupt=Y&VSources=Y&VRep=Y&VWeekly=Y&volpage=photos&photo=058064

Carn, S.A. 2003.  Prodigious sulfur dioxide emissions from Nyamuragira Volcano, DR Congo. Geophysical Research Letters. 30(23):5.1-5.5.

Duriex, J. 2002. Nyiragongo: the January 10th 1977 eruption. Acta Vulcanologica. 14-15(1-2): 145-148.

Global Volcanism Program, "Nyamuragira – Eruptive History." Accessed 6 Feb 2007. http://www.volcano.si.edu/world/volcano.cfm?vnum=0203-02=&volpage=erupt&VErupt=Y&VSources=Y&VRep=Y&VWeekly=Y

Global Volcanism Program, "Nyiragongo – Eruptive History." Accessed 6 Feb 2007. http://www.volcano.si.edu/world/volcano.cfm?vnum=0203-02=&volpage=erupt&VErupt=Y&VSources=Y&VRep=Y&VWeekly=Y

Global Volcanism Program, "Nyamuragira - Monthly Reports." Accessed 6 Feb 2007. http://www.volcano.si.edu/world/volcano.cfm?vnum=0203-02=&volpage=var&VErupt=Y&VSources=Y&VRep=Y&VWeekly=Y#bgvn_2904

Global Volcanism Program, " Nyiragongo - Monthly Reports." Accessed 6 Feb 2007.http://www.volcano.si.edu/world/volcano.cfm?vnum=0203-03=&volpage=var&VErupt=Y&VSources=Y&VRep=Y&VWeekly=Y#bgvn_2703

Global Volcanism Program, 2006, "Nyamuragira - Summary," accessed 1 March 2007,     http://www.volcano.si.edu/world/volcano.cfm?vnum=0203-02=

Global Volcanism Program, 2006, "Nyiragongo -Summary," accessed 1 March 2007, http://www.volcano.si.edu/world/volcano.cfm?vnum=0203-03=

Global Volcanism Program, 2006, "Nyamuragira - Synonyms and Subfeatures," accessed 1 March 2007, http://www.volcano.si.edu/world/volcano.cfm?vnum=0203-02=&volpage=synsub&VErupt=Y&VSources=Y&VRep=Y&VWeekly=Y

Global Volcanism Program, 2006, "Nyiragongo - Synonyms and Subfeatures," accessed 1 March 2007, http://www.volcano.si.edu/world/volcano.cfm?vnum=0203-03=&volpage=synsub&VErupt=Y&VSources=Y&VRep=Y&VWeekly=Y

Global Volcanism Program (Minoru Kasahara, Hokkaido University). 1991. Accessed 31 January 2007. http://www.volcano.si.edu/world/volcano.cfm?vnum=0203-02=&VErupt=Y&VSources=Y&VRep=Y&VWeekly=Y&volpage=photos&photo=015083

Global Volcanism Program (Simon Cairn). 2004. Accessed 31 January 2007. http://www.volcano.si.edu/world/volcano.cfm?vnum=0203-02=&VErupt=Y&VSources=Y&VRep=Y&VWeekly=Y&volpage=photos&photo=109084

Google Maps, 2007, accessed 1 March 2007, http://geology.com/africa-satellite-images.shtml

Hamaguchi, H. 1982. Observations of volcanic earthquakes and tremors at volcanoes Nyiragongo and Nyamuragira in the Western Rift Valley of Africa. Science reports of the Tohoku University. Fifth series, Tohoku geophysical journal. 29(1): 41-56.

Jack Lockwood, U.S. Geological Survey, 21 Aug 2004, accessed 1 Mar 2007 http://volcano.und.edu/vwdocs/volc_images/africa/nyiragongo.html

Komorowski, J-C, et. al. 2002. The January 2002 flank eruption of Nyiragongo volcano (Democratic Republic of Congo): chronology, evidence for a tectonic rift trigger, and impact of lava flows on the city of Goma. Acta Vulcanologica. 14-15(1-2): 27-62.

Mifundu, W. 1989. Volcano seismicity in the Virunga volcanic region, Zaire. Individual studies by participants to the International Institute of Seismology and Earthquake Engineering. 25: 187-204.

Minoru Kasahara, 1991, Hokkaido University, accessed 31 January 2007, http://www.volcano.si.edu/world/volcano.cfm?vnum=0203-02=&VErupt=Y&VSources=Y&VRep=Y&VWeekly=Y&volpage=photos&photo=015083 (used as header image at top of page)

NASA, 1 January 2007, accessed 31 January 2007, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Nyiragongo_2002_eruption.jpg

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 2002, accessed 2 March 2007, http://www.osei.noaa.gov/Events/Volcano/Congo/2001/VIRnyira018_N6.jpg

USGS, 1 January 2007, accessed 31 January 2007, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Nyiragongo_lava_lake.jpg

"Virunga National Park - UNESCO World Heritage Centre."  2007. UNESCO World Heritage Centre. Accessed 25 April 2007. http://whc.unesco.org/pg.cfm?cid=31&id_site=63

"Volcano Risk Reduction in North-Kivu." United Nations Interagency Programme. Accessed 26 April 2007. www.undp.org/bcpr/disred/documents/news/2005/april/vrr_goma.pdf

Volcano Under the City. Dir. Antoine de Maximy. Prod. Gary Glassman. DVD. Bonne Pioche, Greenspace Productions XII Inc., and WGBH Educational Foundation, 2005.