The Lake Nyos
Personal memory by Ntsama Michael
1986 CE • Yaounde, Cameroon
When I was living in Cameroon, Africa, the Lake Nyos explode. It was a limnic eruption, due to a large cloud of carbone dioxide. It killed no less than 1,700 people. In the nearest village, you could find only 6 survivors. This gas was going at about 100 km/h and it was a very brutal explosion
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