Degassing the 'Killer Lakes' nyos and monoun, Cameroon
| Autor: | Gérard Vitter, Joseph Hell, Jean-Christophe Sabroux, Patrick Richon, Gaston Kayser, Jacques Grangeon, Jean-Christophe B´eard, Jean-Claude Tochon-Danguy, Alain Felix, Alfred Wüest, Michel Halbwachs, Adelin Villevieille |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry]), Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire (IRSN), ENSEEG, Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA), Swiss Federal Insitute of Aquatic Science and Technology [Dübendorf] (EAWAG), Institut de Recherches Géologiques et Minières (IRGM), Association EURATOM-CEA (CEA/DSM/DRFC), Direction de la recherche, des études, de l’évaluation et des statistiques [Paris] (DREES), Ministère des Solidarités et de la Santé [Paris, France] |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2004 |
| Předmět: |
geography
geography.geographical_feature_category 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences Earth science Limnic eruption 010502 geochemistry & geophysics 01 natural sciences Oceanography Volcano Impact crater [SDE]Environmental Sciences General Earth and Planetary Sciences Geology 0105 earth and related environmental sciences |
| Zdroj: | EOS EOS, 2004, 85 (30), pp.281+285. ⟨10.1029/2004EO300001⟩ EOS, 2004, 85 (30), pp.281-288. ⟨10.1029/2004EO300001⟩ |
| DOI: | 10.1029/2004EO300001⟩ |
| Popis: | International audience; A unique humanitarian, scientific, and technical experiment is currently taking place in a forgotten mountainous region of West Africa. The experiment is on the verge of reaching its operational stage, which consists of the eradication of a “new” natural hazard; one that is potentially devastating, but which has been known for only 20 years. The Lake Nyos catastrophe, which claimed 1800 victims in August 1986, was not unprecedented. Indeed, 2 years previously a lethal gas burst, originating from nearby Lake Monoun in the same remote area of Cameroon, killed 37 people—an odd and tragic episode that went almost unnoticed. One had never before heard of Mother Nature asphyxiating human beings and most higher animals on such a scale in a single and brief non‐volcanic event. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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