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Drilling Might Be Getting a Bad Rap For Indonesia's Ongoing "Mud Volcano"

Posted by timothy on Tuesday July 23, 2013 @02:46AM from the make-up-your-mind-son-it-is-mud-or-is-a-volcano? dept.

davide-nature writes "The freakish event has been blamed on a company that was drilling for natural gas nearby. But scientists have found a rock formation deep below the surface and shaped like a parabolic antenna. It could have focused seismic waves from an earthquake that occurred shortly before the eruption, and onto a clay layer. The clay then liquefied and somehow found its way to the surface."

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Re:A multiple oddity? by Anonymous Coward · 2013-07-23 03:38 · Score: 1, Funny

Is your comment supposed to be in English?
Re:A multiple oddity? by g0bshiTe · 2013-07-23 03:51 · Score: 3, Funny

It was meant to be SMS text but my spelling is off.

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