Mud volcano swallowed 12 villages
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The photo above was taken from the net as the mud flow began. The photos below were taken 3 1/2 years later and show a mud level of 8 meters in the area contained by a 10 meter high dam.
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Below one of the villages destroyed by the mud volcano. In the back the huge dam erected to contain the mud lake which still rises.
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Sidoarjo, East Java, November 2009.
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