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Goma (CONGO): Peering into the crater of Mount Nyiragongo, 25-year-old park ranger Safari Kimanuka confirms with the naked eye what scientists are already warning. ``That's high, a lot higher than last week.'' The lava lake of the volcano, which overlooks the Congolese city of Goma, has risen sharply, prompting fears of a devastating eruption and causing unease among those who survived the last disaster, in January 2002. Then, fountains of lava broke through the crater and surged 16 km south across the plain, a burning river that consumed entire districts and forced 500,000 people to flee. Around 100 persons were killed. Seismic recordings have detected tremors of increasing intensity in the past week and visual observation from the crater rim confirms a dramatic widening and rising of the lava. Mount Nyiragongo is undergoing a ``feeding episode'' which appears to have started on November 10, according to the Goma Volcano Observatory, an international monitoring group based in the city. Jacques Durieux, a French volcanologist at the observatory, warns that locals should become alarmed only if the 2002 fractures are injected with lava. It is certain the volcano will erupt and engulf Goma, he says, but the timing could be three weeks from now to several hundred years. ``Nobody knows when it will happen.'' — © Guardian Newspapers Limited 2004
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