Limnic Eruptions: When Lakes Explode
SciShow takes you inside a limnic eruption, a natural disaster that's as deadly as it is rare. Hosted by: Hank Green ---------- This episodes' President of Space: ...
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In the evening of August 21st, 1986, eighty million cubic meters of carbon dioxide gas suddenly erupted from Lake Nyos, in the West African country of Cameroon. This massive cloud expanded to 50 kilometers an hour, suffocating everything within a 25 kilometer radius, killing more than 1700 people. The only known similar event happened at nearby Lake Monoun, two years earlier where 37 people died. And scientists is weren't really sure at first what was going on. They figured these were some kind of volcanic eruptions because both lakes are close to Cameron's Oku volcanic field, which includes four major volcanoes. But even though volcanoes were partly to blame for these explosions it turns out that they were no volcanic eruptions. Instead what made these lakes explode were...
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In the evening of August 21st, 1986, eighty million cubic meters of carbon dioxide gas suddenly erupted from Lake Nyos, in the West African country of Cameroon. This massive cloud expanded to 50 kilometers an hour, suffocating everything within a 25 kilometer radius, killing more than 1700 people. The only known similar event happened at nearby Lake Monoun, two years earlier where 37 people died. And scientists is weren't really sure at first what was going on. They figured these were some kind of volcanic eruptions because both lakes are close to Cameron's Oku volcanic field, which includes four major volcanoes. But even though volcanoes were partly to blame for these explosions it turns out that they were no volcanic eruptions. Instead what made these lakes explode were...
