Lake Nyos (/ ˈ n iː oʊ s / NEE-ohs) [1] is a crater lake in the Northwest Region of Cameroon, located about 315 km (196 mi) northwest of Yaoundé, the capital. [2] Nyos is a deep lake high on the flank of an inactive volcano in the Oku volcanic plain along the Cameroon line of …

On 21 August 1986, a limnic eruption at Lake Nyos in northwestern Cameroon killed 1,746 people and 3,500 livestock. [1] The eruption triggered the sudden release of about 100,000–300,000 tons of carbon dioxide (CO 2).

On August 21, 1986, a cloud of magmatic carbon dioxide gas arose from the bed of Lake Nyos, a freshwater lake located in a volcanic caldera in the populous Northwest Region of the East African nation of Cameroon.

2024年3月7日 · 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 oxygen around them. Scientists determined that CO2 had been gradually leaking into the lake, eventually erupting in a deadly release triggered by a rockslide.

2017年4月7日 · On 21 August 1986, one of the strangest and most mysterious natural disasters in history took place at Lake Nyos - a lake formed atop a volcanic crater in northwest Cameroon. A death cloud of 1 million tonnes of CO2.

2024年11月4日 · On August 21, 1986, a catastrophic event now known as the Lake Nyos disaster unfolded at Lake Nyos in Cameroon. A mix of carbon dioxide and water droplets, previously trapped in the lake’s depths, suddenly burst forth and erupted to the surface.

2022年6月9日 · On the night of August 21, 1986, in Cameroon, Lake Nyos erupted. During that night, the lake, set in the crater of a dormant volcano, emitted not lava, not ash, not hot mud, but instead a...

2021年7月23日 · The Lake Nyos Disaster was caused by a liming eruption, a natural disaster which sees CO2 rapidly explode from a highly concentrated lake. The eruption resulted in the death of 1,746 people and 3,500 livestock.

2015年11月10日 · Lake Nyos, located in Cameroon, West Africa, had no signs of volcanic activity or that natural disaster could take place. It was a quiet, blue colored, beautiful lake, surrounded by small villages where the livelihood of the villagers was based on farming and raising cattle.

2024年10月10日 · A landslide thought to be caused by a volcanic eruption (or an earthquake) collided with Lake Nyos, a lake in northwestern Cameroon, Africa. This caused a disruption of the lake water. This lake had large deposits of CO2 at the bottom of the lake and this landslide released it in an explosion!