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Episode 54: The Lake Nyos disaster
Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 00:54:38
Publish Date: 2017-10-29 22:03:42
Description: You don't expect a lake to just explode. But in 1986, Lake Nyos in Cameroon did exactly that on a hot August night, sending a jet of water skyward. The water wasn't the problem, however. The real problem was a mysterious something which killed over 1700 people and thousands of head of livestock.
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