Early in the morning of August 21st, 1986, in a valley near Lake Neos-Kammaroon, something horrible happened.

1,746 people were killed, as were over 3,500 cattle, and almost every other living creature that breathed there.

There were no signs of violence or destruction.

Everyone and everything seemed to have simply died.

They were victims of one of the Earth's rarest and most frightening disasters.

Learn more about Limnick eruptions, what they are, and how they can be prevented on this episode of Everything everywhere daily. Every natural disaster you can think of all has one thing in common. You know when it's happening. You cannot miss the high winds of a hurricane or the

surging waters of a tsunami or the shaking ground of an earthquake or the explosions and

pyroclastic flows of a volcano.

While all of those disasters are horrible, at least you know what's happening to you.

What makes a limbic eruption so horrifying is you cannot see hear or feel what is happening?

So what is a limbic eruption?

As the name would suggest, it has to do with lakes.

Limnick eruptions are extremely rare, and only a few have ever been recorded in human history.

The earliest known case of a Limnick eruption was documented by the Roman historian Plutarch. He noted that in the year

406 PC, the waters of Lake Albano outside of Rome surged over its banks and across the surrounding

hills. The problem is that Lake

albano is in a volcanic crater. There's no tributaries that flow into the lake

and there was no rainfall. There was nothing that would cause the lake to flood.

The water in the lake to flood.

The water in the lake just spontaneously rose up and spilled out of the rim of the crater,

destroying farm fields and vineyards.

Plutarch wrote about this disaster almost 500 years after it occurred so he wasn't a witness to the event

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