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Geomechanics & pore pressure specialist. Love & study mud volcanoes, stress & overpressure. Opinions my own.

Jul 6, 7 tweets

Wandan mud volcano in southern Taiwan erupted again on the 6th July.

This is the 9th eruption of the mud volcano in the last two years. The eruption was from 4 different vents.

Video is courtesy of my friend 張寶惠, the mud volcano temple caretaker.

Best with sound on!

These three vents are located ~50m to the SE of the mud volcano temple and are common recent eruption points in the last few years.

Video from 張寶惠

This fourth vent is located ~30m west of the temple, and has also erupted multiple times recently.

Video from 張寶惠

I visited Wandan mud volcano in December. You can see all of the vents that erupted in their normal quiescent state in this thread.

Link to full thread on Wandan mud volcano, including all my threads on its eruptions for the last 5 years.

Some more videos of yesterday’s eruptions. This time taken from the mud volcano temple.

These videos come from 陳玉意, another friend of mine who is the head of the local village.

This is the three vents ~50m SE of the temple.

This video is of the vent ~30m west of the mud volcano temple, taken from the temple.

Video courtesy of 陳玉意.

Sound on for the videos!

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