Limnic eruption
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A limnic eruption, also known as a lake overturn, is an extremely rare type of natural hazard in which dissolved carbon dioxide suddenly erupts from deep lake waters, forming a gas cloud capable of as
Lake Nyos, the site of a limnic eruption in 1986
Lake Monoun situated in the West Region of Cameroon
Bovine killed by the 1986 limnic eruption at Lake Nyos
Lake Nyos
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Lake Nyos is a crater lake in the Northwest Region of Cameroon, located about 315 km northwest of Yaoundé, the capital. Nyos is a deep lake high on the flank of an inactive volcano in the Oku volcanic
Limnic eruption
…in Cameroon at Lake Monoun in 1984, causing asphyxiation and death of 37 people living nearby. A second, deadlier eruption happened at neighboring Lake Nyos in 1986, releasing over 80 million m3 of CO2, killing around 1,700 people and 3,000 livestock, again by asphyxiation. A third lake, the much larger…
Lake Nyos as it appeared just over a week after the eruption, August 29, 1986
Artificial siphoning system