How Cameroon's biggest lakes exploded — and killed 1800 people
How Cameroon's biggest lakes exploded — and killed 1800 people
How Cameroon's biggest lakes exploded — and killed 1,800 people. When Cameroon's Lakes Monoun and Nyos exploded, they released clouds of carbon ...
Lake Nyos disaster - Wikipedia
On 21 August 1986, a limnic eruption at Lake Nyos in northwestern Cameroon killed 1,746 people and 3,500 livestock. Lake Nyos disaster ...
Lake Nyos disaster | Description & Facts - Britannica
The disaster killed between 1700 and 1800 people. On August 21, 1986, a ... Cameroon, six days after it exploded, killing and displacing thousands of inhabitants.
Gas cloud kills Cameroon villagers | August 21, 1986 | HISTORY
Carbon dioxide, though ubiquitous in Earth's atmosphere, can be deadly in large quantities, as was evident in this disaster. Lake Nyos and Lake ...
How did Lake Nyos suddenly kill 1,700 people? | HowStuffWorks
On August 21, 1986, Lake Nyos in Cameroon released a large cloud of CO2, suffocating over 1,700 people and countless animals by displacing the ...
When a Lake Exploded, Releasing 1.6 Million Tons of Carbon Dioxide
In Cameroon, a rare type of natural disaster relating to volcanic activity occurred in the nation of Cameroon. There in 1986, a landslide ...
Cameroon, where the lake in question is located, has a shifting mix of peoples and customs, and at some point, peoples not sharing of the Bafmen ...
Defusing Africa's Killer Lakes - Smithsonian Magazine
Most people in Cameroon, a poor equatorial country the size of ... ThenLake Nyos blew up, killing 50 times more people than at Monoun. word of ...
The suffocating gas killed nearly 1,800 people, 3,500 livestock, and countless birds and insects. Located in northwestern Cameroon, Lake ...
The Killer Lakes of Cameroon - Damn Interesting
While the Monoun explosion was tragic, its death toll was dwarfed by the devastation of the second incident. Lake Nyos expelled over a million tons of gas— ...
How Lake Nyos, a West African Lake, Killed 1800 People
The evening of August 21, 1986, was like any other night around Lake Nyos, a deep crater lake high on the slopes of the Massif du Mbam ...
The 1986 Deadly Gas Blanket From Lake Nyos - Explorersweb »
Around 1,800 people died, all living in the affected towns of Nyos, Cha, Fang, Mashi, and Subum. Most residents were farmers. About 3,500 ...
Lake Nyos Disaster Killer Lake. How Did 1,700 People ... - YouTube
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 ...
Exploding lakes in myth and reality: an African case study
Lake Nyos, a crater lake in the Cameroon Grassfields of West Central Africa, 'exploded' and sent out a cloud of carbon dioxide that killed more than 1800 ...
Environmental disaster at Lake Nyos in Cameroon - EcoHubMap
A limnic eruption at Lake Nyos in northwestern Cameroon killed 1746 people and 3500 livestock.
The Strange Lake Nyos CO2 Gas Disaster
On 23 August 1986 a radio broadcast from the presidency of the Republic of Cameroon informed the nation of the death of forty people following ...
30 years of the Lakes Nyos and Monoun gas disasters
The gas explosions of the mid 80's at Lakes Monoun and Nyos in Cameroon released huge quantities of magmatic CO 2 gas that asphyxiated close to 1800 people and ...
TIL That a carbon dioxide bubble in Lake Nyos killed 1,800 people ...
The last time it erupted was in 2002 and it killed plenty of people then, and that was without it setting off the lake. Edit: Mount Nyiragongo's ...
In 1986, possibly as the result of a landslide, Lake Nyos suddenly emitted a large cloud of CO 2, which suffocated 1,746 people and 3,500 livestock in nearby ...
Moment Africa lake turned blood orange as gas cloud exploded
A serene lake in Africa turned blood orange before it tragically killed nearly 1,800 people. Lake Nyos, located in northwest Cameroon, ...