Just outside Porong, Indonesia...

I have not seen anything on the internet that has any new information on
this disaster. All is old info from last Sept/Oct. except one article I
found at the National Geographic site from January of this year.

In todays Wichita Eagle (Kansas newspaper) there was an article that
reported 12 villages destroyed and 20 factories under the mud at this
time and the mud volcano is still going strong. Well over 10,000 people
have lost their homes and are displaced.

Geologists/engineers are trying to stop it by plugging it with 1500
concrete orbs. Each orb is about the size of a beach ball and they are
dropping these one by one into the boiling mud volcano on some kind of
pully system. They are hoping this will work but do not know for sure.

Another unusual feature of the eruption is that it involves a very thin,
liquid mud. The mud is apparently being eroded out from deep
underground, creating a cavern. That means that the land around the
volcano might collapse to form a crater.

It is my assumption that the orbs being used are also going to help fill
the underground crater. ???

Has anyone seen or read anything else on this?

Geeze a loo!

I found it, almost the same article that was in our paper today. It is
located here:

http://www.boston.com/news/world/asia/articles/2007/03/10/indonesia_tries_concrete_balls_to_plug_mud_volcano/

Verb:

The plan seems ill concieved at best. I get this mental picture of an
eruption where there is hot mud and 150 lb concrete balls hooked
together with a chain raining down on everything. Remember the old TV
commercial "It's not nice to fool Mother Nature".

lol gardenforge!

Yep, I do remember that one, If you go see the article there is a
picture of the concrete balls too. It does seem odd...

Eileen