Freshwater experts are warning that Lake Kivu, situated between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, is harboring potentially explosive gases.
Kivu is one of Africa’s great ‘rift’ lakes as it has formed over an area of extensional tectonics in the continental crust.
Over thousands of years, volcanic activity from Mount Nyiragongo has caused an immense amount of dissolved methane and carbon dioxide to accumulate under Kivu’s surface. A barge extracting methane gas on Lake Kivu, at the Kivuwatt power plant in Kibuye, Karongi District, in the Western Province of Rwanda, November 1, 2021.Specifically, the event, dubbed a “limnic eruption,” would result in large waves and a poisonous gas cloud, according to Francois Darchambeau, a limnologist and environmental manager at a gas extraction company called KivuWat.The only other ‘killer lakes’ in the world are lakes Nyos and Monoun in northwest Cameroon.
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