The Eruption of Lake Nyos #shorts

Lake Nyos, located in Northwestern Cameroon, is a large, deep crater lake, which sits on the side of an inactive volcano. Underneath the lake lies a big pool of magma, which causes carbon dioxide to seep into the lake water, converting it into carbonic acid. Tragedy struck in 1986, where the lake erupted, launching over one cubic kilometre of gas into the surrounding air. Firstly, the lake's water level dropped by about a metre after the gas was released, and trees from the surrounding forests were knocked down. A hundred-metre-tall column of water and foam built up, causing a 25-metre wave that crashed against the lake's shore. The invisible cloud of gas travelled between 20 and 50 kilometres per hour down the valley and into the surrounding villages, where the carbon dioxide suffocated any living being it came into contact with. This resulted in the tragic deaths of 1,746 people, and around 3,500 livestock.

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