Nyiragongo volcano
Displaced N
How the score is calculated
The score starts at 8. It adds points from recorded affected, deaths, displaced and casualty counts, plus terms found in the story title, event type or status. For each count, only its highest matching band is used.
- Affected people
- 1–999: +5 · 1,000–9,999: +12 · 10,000–99,999: +20 · 100,000–999,999: +28 · 1 million+: +35
- Deaths
- 1–9: +8 · 10–99: +14 · 100–999: +22 · 1,000+: +30
- Displaced people
- 1–9,999: +6 · 10,000–99,999: +12 · 100,000+: +18
- Casualties
- 100 or more: +8
- Story wording
- +10 for terms such as catastrophe, famine, war, conflict, major earthquake, mass casualty or critical. Otherwise, +5 for active, ongoing, emergency, outbreak, cyclone or hurricane.
Score bands: Watch 0–24 · Moderate 25–49 · High 50–74 · Critical 75–100. Scores are capped at 100. Missing or unparseable figures add no points.
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Historical record
Status: CLOSED · Imported 2026-10-07
Closed for this historical import at the site owner’s request; not a new assessment of current conditions.
In brief
- What happenedDebris engulfs buildings in Bushara village, near the city of Goma in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, on May 23, 2021, after Mount Nyiragongo erupted.
- How many affectedAffected persons: 20,000 · Deaths: 31 · Displaced persons: 20,000
- What help is neededResponse priorities should be confirmed in the linked source reports as needs change.
What changed
First retained snapshot
No earlier verified snapshot is present in the recovered dataset. This record remains available as the historical baseline.
Situation
Debris engulfs buildings in Bushara village, near the city of Goma in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, on May 23, 2021, after Mount Nyiragongo erupted. PHOTOGRAPH BY JUSTIN KATUMWA, AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES More than 20,000 people were displaced and left homeless by the 22 May eruption of the Nyiragongo volcano, 10km
Linked charities and agencies
WorldsAid verification
A WorldsAid editor reviewed this record against the retained source record, cleaned feed formatting and checked the crisis, place and reporting date. 3 human-impact figures were separated from the narrative and dated where the source allowed. Earlier observations remain in the evidence history instead of being silently overwritten.
Verified figures
- Affected persons
- 20,000 retained at 2021-06-03
- Deaths
- 31 retained at 2021-06-03
- Displaced persons
- 20,000 retained at 2021-06-03
What we knew when
- WorldsAid record entered the retained historical dataset.
- Last verification represented by this immutable snapshot.
Earlier figures are never replaced by later values; additional observations are retained as new ledger entries.
Provenance
This page renders the last verified WorldsAid cache directly in HTML. It does not treat generated summaries as primary evidence.
Cached dataset: worldsai_drup771.sql.gz
Verified
SHA-256 82e67132f14aae582e3d6c186eb9c0c6565f3855c12b2fcf8c228b9979bed6deNo external source link was stored for this record.