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The Deadly Lake That Killed a Village – The Lake Nyos Disaster
On August 22, 1986, the villagers near Lake Nyos in Cameroon went to sleep, unaware of the silent disaster about to strike. By morning, 1,746 people and thousands of animals lay dead. No explosion ...
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The Silent Killer – Lake Nyos Eruption 1986
On August 22, 1986, a silent cloud from Lake Nyos suffocated an entire village in minutes. A deadly eruption no one saw coming. Soccer star Sophia Wilson announces pregnancy with Arizona Cardinals ...
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Magmatic Fluid Supply into Lakes Nyos and Monoun, and Mitigation of Natural Disasters through Capacity Building in Cameroon
In the 1980s, limnic eruptions occurred at two crater lakes, Lake Nyos and Lake Monoun, in which large quantities of CO 2 that had collected on the lake bottom suddenly erupted to the surface. 1,800 ...