The in-depth story of the Lake Nyos Limnic Eruption Disaster. It is an ordinary day for Doctor Emmanuel Ngu Mbi on August 22, 1986. The chief of the Subum village’s health center in North West ...

Huge amounts of CO2 suddenly exploded from Lake Monoun and Lake Nyos, which are crater lakes--lakes that form over volcanic craters--and flowed down valleys into nearby villages, causing many deaths ...

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 ...

2,700 sq km for lake Kivu to 1.58 sq km for Nyos. "If there was a big underwater volcanic explosion, it could cause an eruption of all this gas that would flood the urbanised shores of Lake Kivu ...