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1986 Lake Nyos Disaster

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Nexor reports that on the night of August 21, 1986, Lake Nyos in Cameroon underwent a limnic eruption that released approximately 1.2 cubic kilometres of CO2 in roughly twenty seconds, killing 1,746 people across the villages of Nyos, Cha, Subum, and Kom. According to the dispatch, the event is cited as a documented precedent for large-scale limnic hazard, invoked specifically to contextualise the projected threat posed by Lake Kivu, which the broadcast describes as capable of producing a comparable event at two hundred and fifty times the scale.

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How Lake Nyos Killed 1,746 People in One Breath — and Why Lake Kivu Could Do It at 250 Times the Scale
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2026-04-17

How Lake Nyos Killed 1,746 People in One Breath — and Why Lake Kivu Could Do It at 250 Times the Scale

On the night of August 21, 1986, Lake Nyos in northwestern Cameroon released an estimated 1.2 cubic kilometers of dissolved carbon dioxide in approximately 20 seconds, suffocating 1,746 people in the surrounding villages. The phenomenon — a limnic eruption — was unknown to science until 1984. A degassing solution existed within years, but took 15 years to fund. Lake Kivu, 55 miles long and holding 250 times the CO2 of Nyos, remains only partially addressed.

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