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Limnic eruptions are well outside of public consciousness. Not surprising, considering their extreme rarity. In all of recorded human history we only know of two for certain. Both occurred in Africa in the 1980s; one at Lake Monoun in 1984 and then a particularly deadly one at Lake Nyos, Cameroon in 1986. The latter killed as many as 1,800 people and the lakes have yet to fully recover.
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