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Who would have thought lakes could choke surrounding area. TIL


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).


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.




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