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Wednesday, June 15, 2011

The Exploding Lake and other Weird Natural Detonations


Things That Shouldn’t – But Still Do – Go Boom!
There are rules about such things … or so we think. After all, apples don’t fall up, lions don’t have feathers, and lakes don’t explode. Oh, but if you happened to be living in Cameroon you’d know all too well that lakes can, and do, explode.
forgottenhopes The Exploding Lake and other Weird Natural Detonations
(art by Mario Sanchez Nevado)
Take for example the Lake Nyos in the Northwest Province of Cameroon. Part of the inactive Oku volcano chain, it’s an extremely deep, extremely high, and most importantly, very calm, very still, lake. But it hasn’t always been so calm or still. In 1986 something very weird happened to Lake Nyos, a weirdness that unfortunately killed 3,500 head of livestock … and 1,700 people.
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(image credit: Dillonla)

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