A week after Mount Nyiragongo erupted in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a local government official, on Sunday, said that the area around the mountain recorded 92 earthquakes and tremors in the past 24 hours.

The volcano, which is 11,500-foot-high, erupted last Saturday, killing at least 31 people and destroying at least 20,000 houses. Since Saturday, the area has experienced continuous tremors that were felt as far as the Rwandan capital of Kigali – 65 miles from the volcano in the Virunga National Park, CNN reported.

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“There were 92 earthquakes and tremors in the last 24 hours. Only 4 were felt by humans, the rest were only picked up by instruments,” the military governor of North Kivu, Constant Ndima, was quoted as saying by CNN.

The report further states that Dario Tedesco, a volcanologist, said that a rift in the regional faults has been a major contributor to the earthquakes.

Tedesco has been studying the volcano since 1995 and said that even though the volcano has passed its peak of seismic activity, he can’t possibly rule out another eruption.

President Felix Tshisekedi, on Saturday (May 29), said that the situation is under control after an alert of another eruption was sounded.

A week after Mount Nyiragongo roared back into life, causing devastation and sparking a mass exodus, “the situation is certainly serious but it is under control,” news agency AFP quoted Tshisekedi as saying.

Around 400,000 residents have evacuated the eastern city of Goma after a week of rolling aftershocks following the eruption of Africa’s most active volcano.

“There is an underground lava flow that can arise anytime anywhere in the city,” Tshisekedi warned.

His comments came after more than 1,000 refugees left a camp in Rwanda to return to DR Congo on Saturday.

After the fresh alert, the Goma Volcano Observatory (OVG) confirmed that while there was “intense activity” at Nyamuragira, “there has been no eruption”.