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#MudVolcanoOfTheDay (#156) is Paternò mud volcano in Sicily, Italy.
No, not that huge mountain – that’s the volcano Etna.
Paternò is the grey area marked by a red pin, which sits right at the base of Etna. However, there are suggestions of a possible link between the two….
No, not that huge mountain – that’s the volcano Etna.
Paternò is the grey area marked by a red pin, which sits right at the base of Etna. However, there are suggestions of a possible link between the two….
The Paternò mud volcano is located right on the NW edge of the large town of Paternò in eastern Sicily, and ~21km south of the summit of Etna.
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The MV is on a small hill, right next to a velodrome named for this ‘Salinelle’
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The MV is on a small hill, right next to a velodrome named for this ‘Salinelle’
The Paternò mud volcano sits on a small hilltop and covers and area ~350m wide. It has a central main vent area, with lots of large visible vents, and two smaller vent areas, one to the west and one coming out of a small slope to the south.
Feeling vindicated by a new paper on the Lusi mud volcano disaster in Marine & Petroleum Geology.
This is not your usual geoscience paper! The author is a Professor of English – and you do not often see geoscience papers that are written like this one!
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This is not your usual geoscience paper! The author is a Professor of English – and you do not often see geoscience papers that are written like this one!
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First, a bit of history.
Lusi, or Lumpur Sidoarjo, is a unique disaster that I have covered quite a lot, most recently as part of the #MudVolcanoOfTheDay series here:
Lusi, or Lumpur Sidoarjo, is a unique disaster that I have covered quite a lot, most recently as part of the #MudVolcanoOfTheDay series here:
Debate on how this disaster was triggered is ongoing, & basically falls into two camps. One side argues the disaster resulted from an accident in the adjacent gas exploration well. The other camp argues Lusi was triggered by a big quake that struck 250km away, 2 days earlier.
On this day in 2006, the 'Lusi' Mud Volcano was born. This was the start of the worst mud volcano disaster in history. A truly unique tragedy.
Lusi is today's #MudVolcanoOfTheDay & the third thread in the #MuddyMay 'Mud Volcano Disasters' series.
Video courtesy of @Greenpeace
Lusi is today's #MudVolcanoOfTheDay & the third thread in the #MuddyMay 'Mud Volcano Disasters' series.
Video courtesy of @Greenpeace
The Lusi mud volcano was born before dawn on the 29th May 2006. Hot mud started gushing out of a new hole in the ground in a rice paddy in the town of Sidoarjo.
At rates of ~5000 cubic meters per day, the mud quickly started to flood nearby lands.
At rates of ~5000 cubic meters per day, the mud quickly started to flood nearby lands.
The Lusi mud volcano is located in Sidoarjo, which is just south of Surabaya, the second largest city on Java.
Location here:
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This was the first time that a new major mud volcano had erupted in the middle of an essentially urban area.
Location here:
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This was the first time that a new major mud volcano had erupted in the middle of an essentially urban area.
Today's #MudVolcanoOfTheDay is the Qarnyarq Mud Volcano in NE Iran. Short thread on an unusual looking mud volcano that looks kinda like a meteor crater!
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Qarnyarq mud volcano is located In Iran, near the border with Turkmenistan and near the Caspian Sea. You can find it here:
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The Qarnyarq mud volcano is set inside a roughly circular crater of ~500m diameter, with a central raised mud cone (~330m across) surrounded by its own little lake.
What a fascinating feature - it's kind of like the mud volcano has made its own little fort with a wall and moat!
What a fascinating feature - it's kind of like the mud volcano has made its own little fort with a wall and moat!
