Village-Swallowing MUDCANO
24th July 2013
In early 2006, miners drilling a new natural gas well in the Indonesian district of Porong struck a problem. Not far from their workings and not long after they did some drilling, hot mud started bubbling to the surface.
Lots of hot mud.
So much mud that at least 30,000 people were displaced and 10,000 buildings destroyed.
Levees built in 2008 have contained the mud, but the stuff is still bubbling up and causing problems, not the least of which are subsidence caused by its weight.