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The Sidoarjo mud flow (commonly known as Lumpur Lapindo, wherein lumpur is the Indonesian word for mud; and as Lusi (Lumpur Sidoarjo)) is the result of an erupting mud volcano [1] in the subdistrict of Porong, Sidoarjo in East Java, Indonesia that has been in eruption since May 2006.
The Sidoarjo mud flow is an ongoing eruption of gas and mud from the earth in the subdistrict of Porong, Sidoarjo in East Java, Indonesia (20 kilometer south of Surabaya). It is considered to be a mud volcano. It appears that the flow will continue for an undetermined amount of time. So far, all efforts to stop the flow have failed.
The Sidoarjo mud flow is the result of an erupting mud volcano [4] in the subdistrict of Porong, Sidoarjo in East Java, Indonesia that has been in eruption since May 2006. It is the biggest mud volcano in the world; responsibility for it was credited to the blowout of a natural gas well drilled by Lapindo Brantas, although some scientists [5] and company officials contend it was caused by a ...
Heavy rains and torrents of hot lava and mud sliding down an erupting volcano on Indonesia's Java island have put search and rescue operations for more than a dozen missing on hold, officials said ...
The Sidoarjo mud flow is an ongoing eruption of gas and mud from the earth in the subdistrict of Porong, Sidoarjo in East Java, Indonesia (20 kilometer south of Surabaya). It is considered to be a mud volcano. It appears that the flow will continue for an undetermined amount of time. So far, all efforts to stop the flow have failed.
Ridwan Wadjah vividly remembers the moment a torrent of mud came crashing down on him and the dozens of miners working this week in an illegal gold mine in Indonesia's Sulawesi island. Rescuers ...
Heavy rains and torrents of cold lava and mud flowing down a volcano's slopes on Indonesia’s Sumatra island triggered flash floods that killed at least 15 people and injured several others ...
Gus Maksum, one of the thousands of Sidoarjo villagers displaced by the mud flow gives a detailed first-hand account of the first year of the disaster in his memoir Titanic Made By Lapindo. [10] As of late September 2006 scientists are saying that the eruption may be a mud volcano forming, and may be impossible to stop. [11] [12] [13]