{"id":3310,"date":"2008-03-18T07:50:29","date_gmt":"2008-03-18T07:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/2008\/03\/lusi-in-time\/"},"modified":"2008-03-18T07:50:29","modified_gmt":"2008-03-18T07:50:29","slug":"lusi-in-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/2008\/03\/lusi-in-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Lusi in Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

The latest from Lusi<\/a><\/b>
\nI’ve just come across an excellent article in Time<\/i> about Lusi<\/a>, the mud volcano currently engulfing eastern Java. Entitled ‘A Wound In the Earth’<\/a>, it’s a good summary of the human impacts, the attempts to contain the mud, and the wrangling over whether it was the result of natural causes or human incompetence. This seemed like a good prompt to seek out the latest satellite photo<\/a> from the University of Singapore’s Centre for Remote Imaging, Sensing and Processing (shown together with some older ones from the same source):<\/p>\n

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It seems that the ever-higher holding dams are largely keeping the eruption contained – for now, anyway. But as the Time<\/i> article mentions, past experience suggests that even after almost two years, this operation is only just beginning:<\/p>\n

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In 1979, the oil company Shell set off a similar eruption while drilling off the shore of Brunei. That mudflow took 20 years and 20 relief wells to halt.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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