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Fri, 10/06/2006 - 07:56I saw the article on the news last night about this, and they (BBC) say that it is pumping out a football pitch sized cauldron every day in mud!
Found this on the BBC site,
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/5384498.stm
Seems a bad way to deal with it, but what else can they do?
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Fri, 10/06/2006 - 20:25In fact, the mud is a big deal right now. This is not a simple mud, it contains toxic particles and gases which could cause many diseases.
In my country, nobody tells the news on the Media, so I think that BBC is making a good job with the headline.
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Wed, 10/18/2006 - 07:38They were drilling a bore hole - if they fractured a layer that was containing the mud, then it would be like shaking a fizzy drink and then drilling a hole in the lid!
Its quite possible that the drilling caused it, its too close to the source not to be involved, but the geological conditions will make it continue.
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Submitted by javi_geo on Sat, 09/30/2006 - 11:58.Amazing, just the right word...
Have a look at the news:
http://www.nature.com/news/2006/060925/full/060925-13.html
and the aerial photograph:
http://www.crisp.nus.edu.sg/coverages/mudflow/
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