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...that a limnic eruption occurred at the crater lake Lake Nyos in Cameroon on August 21, 1986 and resulted in the deaths of nearly 1800 people as well as 3500 livestock?
...that the Great Hurricane of 1780 is considered the deadliest Atlantic tropical cyclone in history?
...that approximately 60,000 soldiers were killed during the mountain campaign in World War I as a result of avalanches in the Alps?
...that the Alaskan Good Friday Earthquake (pictured) on March 27, 1964 registered as a 9.2 magnitude on the Richter Scale and resulted in the deaths of 131 people, mostly as a result of tsunamis resulting from the effects of the earthquake?