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Glacial lake outburst flood
A glacial lake outburst flood (GLOF) is the sudden release of water dammed by glacier ice, moraine, or an ice jam, flooding valleys tens to hundreds of kilometers downstream.
Lake Monoun disaster
The Lake Monoun disaster was a limnic eruption, a sudden release of carbon dioxide from a crater lake in western Cameroon, that killed 37 people in 1984.
Lake Nyos
Lake Nyos, a volcanic crater lake in northwestern Cameroon on the Cameroon Volcanic Line, suffered a limnic eruption on 21 August 1986 that asphyxiated more than 1,700 people; degassing pipes installed since 2001 now remove magmatic CO2.
Lake Nyos disaster
The Lake Nyos disaster: a limnic eruption on 21 August 1986 in which Cameroon's Lake Nyos released about 1.6 million tons of carbon dioxide, asphyxiating roughly 1,700 people; preceded by Lake Monoun 1984 and mitigated by degassing pipes.
Lake Peigneur
Lake Peigneur, Iberia Parish, Louisiana: brackish lake on the Jefferson Island salt dome, site of the 1980 Texaco drilling accident that drained the freshwater lake into the Diamond Crystal salt mine, creating a whirlpool, a reversed canal, and a 200-foot-deep saltwater lake with no fatalities.
Limnic eruption
Limnic eruption: the sudden release of dissolved CO2 from a stratified lake, known from Lake Monoun (1984, 37 deaths) and Lake Nyos (1986, ~1,700 deaths) in Cameroon; mitigated by degassing pipes.