Mud volcano to stop 'by decade's end'

[Eugene]

Source: BBC

13 December 2013 Last updated at 18:07 GMT

Mud volcano to stop 'by decade's end'

By Jonathan Amos
Science correspondent, BBC News, San Francisco

Scientists say the eruption of the Lusi mud volcano in Indonesia should be all but over by the end of the decade - much sooner than previous estimates.

The assessment is based on satellite data that records the rate at which the ground is changing in response to the material spewing up on to the surface.

Researchers say the system is losing pressure rapidly.

The eruption, which began in the Porong subdistrict of Sidoarjo in East Java in 2006, is the largest of its kind.

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[Demeter]

1. Drought could turn it off...unless it's fed by the ocean