⚒️🧪 This week’s massive M8.8 earthquake off Kamchatka was caused by an ~160x 480km fault surface sliding by about 9m. In contrast, these lovely itsy-bitsy faults have slips of only about 1cm or so, but are no less impressive. Airport Road outcrop in Miri, Sarawak, Malaysia. Pen for scale.

⚒️🧪 Geophysical Institute of Peru article with preliminary findings about the new baby mud volcano reported last week. Updates include that the mud volcano was actually noticed in Nov 2024 and the gryphon has built up over the last ~3 months. The mud is room temperature. www.gob.pe/institucion/...

⚒️🧪 Today’s big earthquake near the Tanimbar Islands was close and large enough to potentially trigger eruptions in the many mud volcanoes in those islands, as has previously happened numerous times in the region. I’ve not seen any reports of mud volcanic activity, but will keep an eye out for news!

Gurgles and burps and gushes of mud, oh my!

🧪⚒️New baby mud volcano found in Peru! Locals first noticed this small mud volcano just to the NW of Cuzco on the 6th of July. It consists of a single ~60cm high gryphon that is gently erupting and bubbling away. Awww! Welcome to the world you cute little thing! Video: Jam Press

Go home Google AI, you’re drunk! There’s no way the fancy aristocracy characters in Cluedo would ever go to jail!

⚒️🧪 The Wandan mud volcano in southern Taiwan erupted again today. The eruption lasted from ~5am to ~3:40pm. This is its 10th eruption in the last 3 years, most recently the 6th July 2024. Video courtesy of my friend 張寶惠, the mud volcano temple caretaker. Best with sound on!

⚒️🧪 Thick black goop pouring from the earth is a horror often seen in TV shows or movies. Fortunately this is an amazing geological feature, and not a malevolent monster! This 1956 pic is of a natural bitumen or asphalt seep pouring into a mine shaft in Lettomanoppello, Italy. 🧵 Pic: Cazzini (2018)

🧪⚒️ 19 years. This terrible man-made mud volcano tragedy has now gone on for 19 years without pause….

⚒️🧪 I thought I’d lost this great mud volcano eruption video but I just found it again! I do not recommend ever driving a boat over the eruption like this person did! There is a lot of methane being released, which can ignite. Video courtesy of @Makurani_

What a lovely little mud volcano!

Bloop. #Volcano mud, Waiotapu, Te Ika-a-Māui, Aotearoa #NewZealand

Today's fieldwork was mostly setting up things for tomorrow... But check out this folded quartzite bed in a schist. If you look closely, you can see original cross bedding within the fold! 🤩 ⚒️🧪

🧪⚒️ The Lokbatan mud volcano in Azerbaijan erupted on Wednesday the 9th April. This is Lokbatan’s 29th recorded eruption. Its most recent previous eruption was in September 2024. No fires this time, but Lokbatan has often had fiery eruptions. Video courtesy Dr Orhan Abbasov

⚒️🧪 Reported mud volcano eruption on Munaung Island, Rakhine state, Myanmar. Rakhine state hosts many big mud volcanoes, including several on Munaung Island. Video from Htun Htun Naing

⚒️ My son felt this quake lying in his bed this morning in Yogyakarta, but sadly I didn’t feel anything. His first earthquake!

🧪⚒️ This calculator was melted in a 2010 eruption of the Mount Merapi volcano in Indonesia, when a pyroclastic flow hit a group of houses. But, you may wonder whether a mighty Nokia mobile phone would survive a pyroclastic flow…

⚒️🧪 Thanks so much @phaneritic.bsky.social! I absolutely love it!!!

⚒️🧪The Wandan mud volcano in southern Taiwan did not erupt in response to this quake ~70km away, according to its caretaker. Eruptions of Wandan are often triggered by quakes. Though many eruptions have no quake trigger and sometimes nearby large quakes (like this week’s) don’t trigger any eruption.

⚒️🧪 Unconfirmed reports of a very small eruption of the Pugachevskiy mud volcano on Sakhalin island, Russia on the 15th January. Always nice seeing mud volcanoes in the snow! Pugachevskiy is most famous for the lovely ‘Eye’ photograph that I’ll post below Video: Sakhalin_News

New Azerbaijan mud volcano island now on Popular Mechanics! www.popularmechanics.com/science/envi...

⚒️🧪 Just found out that NASA Earth Observatory has selected the ‘new’ mud volcano island I ‘found’ in November as its image of the day! You can read the article here: earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/153799/…

Mud volcano tissue boxes from @phaneritic.bsky.social are now available! Finally we can get a ‘real volcano’!

Seventeen new scale model tissue box covers are now available in my Etsy shop, including the first release of the Salton Sea Mud Volcano and several variations of diffuser tops that "erupt" misty vortex rings. I'll post video of their action in this thread. phaneritic.etsy.com

It’s happening! (Vid description: Timelapse of 3D print head extruding brown filament onto mud volcano model)

This is definitely one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen!!

Sentinel-1 satellite image before and after the eruption of BLEDUG KESONGO Mud Volcano, Blora Regency, Central Java, Indonesia on December 3, 2024 cc: @tonyveco.bsky.social @flutfiananda.bsky.social

🧪⚒️ UPDATE: A second similar eruption of Bledug Kesongo mud volcano has occurred at ~16:30 this afternoon local time. No reports so far of any injuries.

🧪⚒️ Eruption of Bledug Kesongo, a large mud volcano in Central Java, Indonesia 3rd December 2024 This mud volcano last erupted in April 2023, tragically killing one person due to H2S poisoning. It has had numerous such eruptions in the last few years. Video: @infomitigasi.com

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🧪⚒️ My very rough initial estimate of erupted mud volume from Los Aburrido on the 11th Nov is 100000-300000 cubic meters. This estimate is still very uncertain as it’s based on trying to map the flow from just a few oblique aerial videos/photos available.

⚒️🧪 Aerial footage showing the dark fresh mud flows from the 11th November eruptions of Los Aburrido mud volcano in Colombia. Ground photos from the Colombian Geological Service suggest the mud flow is about 1-2m thick on average. Video source: Andrés Julián

🧪⚒️ Big eruption of the Cacahual mud volcano in Colombia! Also known as Volcán de Lodo El Aburrido. This mud volcano tragically killed 7 and injured 20 people in 1992 when a quake triggered a fiery eruption. Video source: RevistaSemana

⚒️🧪A new island suddenly appeared last year. What’s even more amazing is that nobody seemed to notice! Here are satellite images showing the island, measuring ~400m wide, suddenly appearing sometime between the 30th Jan and 4th Feb 2023. A thread...

🧪⚒️ Reports of a minor eruption of the Nagar Gri/Wetin Nagar mud volcano in Myanmar on the 5th October. Eruption apparently lasted ~30 minutes. My records are that Nagar Gri had big eruptions in 2011, 2008, 2006, 2000, 1996 and 1990. Video source: youtu.be/yLRx7Er7FAE

🧪Adding this predatory publishing fail to the Science feed…

exciting news for seismologists everywhere. My greatest ever achievement, a functioning geophone made from Lego, is now available to purchase from mindsetsonline.co.uk , also available a usb 24bit digitiser.

⚒️ Read the title, then read the abstract… 🤔🤔🤔

Portraits of three flows from Salton Sea mud volcanoes. Small scale pahoehoe texture, overprinted by desiccation cracks. ⚒️

⚒️🧪 More spectacular video of yesterday’s eruption of Lokbatan mud volcano in Azerbaijan! Video courtesy of Dr Orhan Abbasov.

⚒️🧪 Eruption of Lokbatan mud volcano in Azerbaijan on the 17th of Sept! Eruption was at 3:19pm and lasted a bit over 6 mins. Lokbatan is ~13km from Baku and frequently has large eruptions. This is the 27th eruption since 1829. The previous eruption was in August 2022. Video: OperativMedia.

⚒️🧪Yesterday’s M5.1 earthquake under Sumatra was one of the nearest and clearest I’ve ever detected on my RaspberryShake seismometer!

⚒️🧪 New mud volcano eruption reported! A mud volcano apparently erupted at ~11pm on the 14th Sept on Baratang Island, Andamans, India. ~5000m3 mud erupted in the forest. No damages or injuries. Is not the big tourist mud volcano. Possibly this smaller one a few km away at 12.1321403, 92.7805737.

⚒️🧪 Just look at that cute lil thing go!! 😍😍😍

⚒️🧪 So happy to see videos on BlueSky! Mud volcanoes really need video to appreciate their awesome gloopyness! Here is the Yangnyu mud volcano, Taiwan.

⚒️🧪 This livestream is a composite of several cameras in different locations all pointed at the current eruption in Iceland. It's still very high energy and high pressure. At the moment I'm posting, the lava fountain looks like a blowtorch as viewed from Vogar! www.youtube.com/live/804nPrA...

Things climate scientists should not have to say: A thermometer reading doesn’t depend on how you vote. No, those jets are not spewing mind control exhaust. Yes, an oil exec really does make a lot more than we do. And no, it’s not volcanoes, natural cycles, or the sun. We really have checked.

🧪⚒️ This historical thread on a volcanic island popping up and disappearing near Sicily almost 200 years ago may be of interest to the Science and Earth Science feeds!

On 24 August 1831 Captain Senhouse of the Royal Navy (photo) lands on an island to the south of Sicily and, following the 'Eddie Izzard' Empire building strategy, claims it for Britain by planting a flag. This provokes an international dispute that ends when the island disappears [Thread] >> 1

🧪⚒️ This special 100-post thread is now all uploaded! Please enjoy an unusual geological detective story!