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Worth the click! I had no idea there were such things as limnic eruptions.

• quaintdev 3y ago
  Who would have thought lakes could choke surrounding area. TIL
  • gus_massa 3y ago
    I think it's a very special case of a deep lake in volcanic caldera in a tropical zone with a lot of vegetation and heat to make it decompose. Usual lakes don't do that (IIUC).
    • salad-tycoon 3y ago
      Wiki states many theories, no conclusive way to know and then makes a series of assumptions about velocity, force, vector etc. I posit it could have been a sandworm deposit site that then suffered a spice reaction and exploded, like Dune. Still, lake exploded a gas and people within 16 miles were knocked out or killed. Nuts.