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

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. Re:A multiple oddity? by g0bshiTe · · Score: 2

    If it was due to the drilling which is a common belief, no data to back it up as opposed to studies to disprove it was the drilling then for it to have lasted as long as it had I think more was at work here than just the drilling. It began in 2006 and continues.

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  2. For more information. by PlusFiveTroll · · Score: 4, Informative

    There is a very long Wikipedia article on this topic that contains a great deal of information on what occurred. While a great deal of work has been done to show that it is not fully the oil companies fault, drilling in to a hydrothermically unstable area with a faulty well design is a recipe for disaster.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidoarjo_mud_flow

    1. Re:For more information. by Joining+Yet+Again · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Finding evidence of one contributory factor is not the same as disproving all other factors.

  3. Not the only mud volcano by flyingfsck · · Score: 4, Informative

    This isn't the only mud vent in Indonesia and the others were not caused by drilling either.

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    1. Re:Not the only mud volcano by flyingfsck · · Score: 3, Informative

      A link to a very nice site about mud volcanoes: http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/mud-volcanoes-of-azerbaijan

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  4. Re:A multiple oddity? by g0bshiTe · · Score: 3, Funny

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

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  5. How wrong. by Type44Q · · Score: 2

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

    That is simply no way to refer to tubgirl.

  6. Re:A multiple oddity? by pastafazou · · Score: 2

    not sure why someone marked your post as a troll, I couldn't make any sense of what g0bshiTe was trying to say either without rereading it twice!