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HORIZON: KILLER LAKES
(2002)
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Investigates the natural phenomenon known as `lake overturn' which can occur when a volcanic eruption spreads to a fault under a nearby lake, causing an explosion of deadly gas. Recounts the first reported incidence at Lake Monoun in Cameroon in 1984 when 37 people died. Two years later, also in Cameroon, at Lake Nyos, nearly 1800 people sleeping in housing...