iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

No idea! Could be gas, fire or mud really.

010

For official information please see online updates in the thread from the Colombian Geological Service. That’s all for now. I’ll post more info as it comes in.

0161

No one was hurt, but reports indicate some livestock was killed and large cracks formed in the adjacent San Juan de Urabá and San Juancito road.

2141

I had this marked on my personal map of Colombian mud volcanoes already (red circle), but have no information on it - not even a name! For now I will call it the San Juan de Urabá mud volcano, but people on Google Maps have today labelled it as the San Juancito mud volcano.

1121

The mud volcano is located ~2km south of the town of San Juan de Urabá (8.7288, -76.5141). Pre-eruption satellite images show that it’s a fairly small and usually low activity mud volcano.

1111

🧪⚒️ A big eruption occurred at a mud volcano in Colombia on the night of the 25th February 2026. Thread… Video from @fluxfolio_

37936

Yes. Or just violently erupted rocks banging together and creating a spark.

080

No. Not molten at all. Just mud and gas.

040

A friend from the Geological Institute of Azerbaijan, Dr Orhan Abbasov, climbed up Daşmərdan to survey the eruption. You can see the thick dark fresh mud flows and that the main vent was still alight from methane seeping out.

1294

ev9 @ev9999.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

⚒️🧪Fiery Mud Volcano Eruption! The Daşmərdan (Dashmardan) mud volcano in Azerbaijan erupted ~16:50 on the 30th Jan 2026. The eruption lasted ~15 mins and was accompanied by a pillar of flame several hundred meters high. Daşmərdan had previous documented eruptions in 1866, 1954, 1976, 1986 and 2011.

9223100

The locals ignited it.

030

ev9 @ev9999.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

⚒️🧪 The Wandan mud volcano in southern Taiwan erupted again yesterday (12/11/25)! The eruption occurred at 3 vents. Sadly one vent was under a house. This is its 11th eruption in the last ~3 years, most recently in June 2025. Video courtesy of my friends 陳玉意 and 張寶惠. Best with sound on.

28519

ev9 @ev9999.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

It’s not. I know folks from the geophysical agency that went up the next day to survey it.

010

ev9 @ev9999.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

If any bright folks out there can access pre- and post- quake satellite images, I’d love to please collaborate and look for any mud volcano triggering! Some of the most incredible mud volcano eruptions ever have happened in that part of Timor without ever being reported!

184

ev9 @ev9999.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

🧪⚒️ Mag 6.3 earthquake just north of Timor today at ~2:04am in Timor Leste (recorded on my home seismometer). No reported damage or injuries. Lots of mud volcanoes in that part of Timor that are well within potential reactivation range. I’ll look out for any news!

Seismograph recording of low frequency earthquake waves from today’s earthquake near Timor, ~2800km from my seismograph in Kuala Lumpur.

2284

It basically is a natural one! It’s bringing up highly pressured mud, oil and natural gas from deep underground.

170

Some mud volcanoes, including those in Azerbaijan, are also plumbed into an active hydrocarbon system. So a huge amount of methane is also released during the eruptions. That gas just needs a spark to ignite into a fireball. The ignition occurs naturally and there are several possible mechanisms.

1170

More information on Otman-Bozdagh, and its last fiery eruptions in 2017 and 2018, can be found in my old thread here. bsky.app/profile/mark...

1173

ev9 @ev9999.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

⚒️🧪 Fiery eruption of Otman-Bozdagh mud volcano in Azerbaijan! The Otman-Bozdagh mud volcano erupted at ~8:27am local time today (11/10/25). Three eruption phases of between 4-12 minutes were recorded over an ~40 minute period. Video source: @_yagha_

618055

⚒️🧪 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.

Sedimentary rock made up of dozens of thin layers (a few mm each). The layers are all cut and offset by ~1cm by many small cracks.

14311

ev9 @ev9999.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Nice!! Hope you and the Man are doing well! I know you’re not on FB anymore, but it’s been nice seeing all the figures from this paper getting heavily promoted and liked by this FB group. Brings back memories of the field trip I tagged along on. www.facebook.com/share/p/16tP...

facebook.com

Redirecting...

110

ev9 @ev9999.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

⚒️🧪 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/...

gob.pe

Columna de opinión | El “volcán más pequeño del mundo”: ¿qué encontramos realmente?

El jueves 10 y viernes 11 de julio, un equipo del Instituto Geofísico del Perú (IGP) se desplazó hasta la comunidad campesina de Songoña, en el distrito de San Pablo (provincia de Canchis, Cusco), par...

0115

I’m not an expert on Californian seismicity. However, I have not heard of any unusual activity from experts, and I know there are often folks making up false alarming claims.

000

The islands have a many mud volcanoes! Here’s my incomplete map. Many MVs are remote, and eruptions may not be reported. Whilst the quake could potentially trigger an eruption, I note that triggered eruptions in the area have historically required larger quakes, greater than M7.0. We will see!

Map of the Tanimbar Islands with pins marking the locations of ~20 mud volcanoes.

092

There’s a long history of earthquake triggered mud volcano eruptions in the Tanimbar and Kai islands. I’ve found mentions in papers of triggered eruptions going back >200 years! Most recently, the M7.9 9th Jan 2024 quake caused two tiny islands to rise up next to the big Pulau Kabawa mud volcano.

Satellite image of a round island with a mud volcano at its center. Two small islands are marked just to the south of the island where mud volcano islands rose up from the sea after the 9th Jan 2023 quake.

171

ev9 @ev9999.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

⚒️🧪 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!

1163

@brandontbishop.bsky.social interesting. Maybe you are right that it may have some magmatic link. There are two hot mineral springs near by (one active) that have built up small cones, one ~15km away and one ~38km away. maps.app.goo.gl/gpUD4gCHmaBy... maps.app.goo.gl/7GiXFAynM63p...

maps.app.goo.gl

120

ev9 @ev9999.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Yes, I think you’re right, and I may have found the exact location! Someone has put a position in Google Maps for ‘Volcancito San Pedro’, which has photos of the mud volcano and matches with details in a local news story. -14.19, -71.3065 Google Maps link: maps.app.goo.gl/Xou2uzs9knJg...

maps.app.goo.gl

110

Oh yeah. The flows from mud volcanoes can be amazing with their shapes, colours, pattens and textures.

261

I don’t think it is hot at all. I would suspect the mud is 10-30°C

000

It’s a wonderful hobby! I have a massive amount of posts and threads on over 150 of them, but the vast majority are over on Twitter as that was my main SciComm social media before it became horrible.

021

🤣🤣🤣 but does not wear a nappy and seems to be pooping all over the place!

010

The geophysicist interviewed was indicating that it’s not near any active volcanism. The vent itself also doesn’t suggest that it may be hydrothermally driven. It doesn’t really look like how MVs usually look when near and influenced by volcanism.

120

SW? I realised id gotten that wrong, but the map in the article has it NE of Cuzco! I am hunting around to see if I can find more info, but a bit busy with other stuff at the moment. Plus, the best and most reliable info is likely in Spanish. I will also try to contact the geophysicist mentioned.

110

I’m not very familiar with the geology there, but, from the little I know, it seems an unusual place to find one. This mud volcano is not related in any way to the magmatic volcanoes of the Andes. What I do know is that it’s very cute! Photo and article here: whatsthejam.com/world-news/w...

Small mud volcano vent with visible recently erupted dark grey mud.

1273

Peru is not at all well known for mud volcanoes!! Two active mud volcanoes have been documented in Southern Peru, but this new one is the first mud volcano I’m aware of in this part of Peru. Photo: JamPress

A group of people standing around the new baby mud volcano. The mud volcano is about 60cm high and looks to cover an area of ~5m by 5m.

1243

ev9 @ev9999.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

🧪⚒️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

1433876

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

Google AI answer to the question “what happens if a player rolls doubles in Cluedo?”. The AI answers that players who roll doubles three times in a row go to jail. Despite Cluedo being about solving a murder, there is no Jail in Cluedo. The AI is confusing Cluedo with Monopoly.

031

And here’s a nice sunset one from the November 2023 eruption.

101

I sure do have videos of this mud volcano burning at night in previous eruptions!

042

Another video from 張寶惠. The eruptions are lit by the locals to flare off the methane gas bursting out with the mud. The mud volcano temple is in the background.

0154