(CNN) — Stretching to the horizon, the gray-white earth rises in peaks like a well-whipped meringue petrified into mud and rock. A keen wind whips these otherworldly hills, while the land underfoot is ...
This article was originally featured on The Conversation. Rice farmers living in Sidoarjo Regency, Indonesia, awoke to a strange sight on May 29, 2006. The ground had ruptured overnight and was ...
Hidden beneath the placid surface of a Siberian lake, a robot has mapped a landscape that looks more like an alien seabed ...
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On May 29, 2006, a torrent of mud spewed from vents that opened up in the ground in a densely populated area of the Indonesian island of Java. That mudflow eventually buried houses, businesses and ...
(THE CONVERSATION) – Rice farmers living in Sidoarjo Regency, Indonesia, awoke to a strange sight on May 29, 2006. The ground had ruptured overnight and was spewing out steam. In the following weeks, ...
PORT BLAIR: (Oct 3) Dormant for more than two decades, India's only mud volcano at Baratang in Andaman and Nicobar Islands has again erupted, an official said on Friday. The volcano erupted with a ...
Mud volcanoes are usually found in subduction zones — the parts of the globe where tectonic plates collide, sometimes causing earthquakes, tsunamis and violent eruptions. Pockets of subterranean gas ...