USGS · 70176723
Lake Nyos was rigged for disaster
Abstract
Studies suggest that magmatic gas seepage had turned Lake Nyos in Cameroon into a time bomb; evidence mounts against a volcanic trigger for last August's disaster.
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R. A. Kerr. 1987. Lake Nyos was rigged for disaster. https://pubs.usgs.gov/publication/70176723
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