14 Places Prone to Terrifying Natural Disasters
| April 10, 2017
14. Cameroon (Limnic eruption)
Imagine living your life by a lake in Cameroon and one day, all of a sudden, you can’t breathe anymore and slowly suffocate to death? Your skin change colors and blisters appear all over your body? Sounds like a horror movie, right? Unfortunately, it happened twice in Cameroon (two different lakes) and it’s called limnic eruption.
Due to unknown reasons (hypothesis point to a minor earthquake or underwater landslide), there’s a sudden release of CO₂that was trapped under the lake. The amount released is enough to kill everything and everybody around it. 38 people were killed in 1984 at Lake Monoun and 1,700 in 1986 at Lake Nyos.
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