Despite its destructive history, the Sidoarjo mud flow in eastern Java, Indonesia, appeared contained by levees in November 2008.
Published Dec 10, 2008
Lusi, the world’s largest and fastest growing mud volcano, had developed the mound-like shape of a volcano when this false-color image was acquired in October 2009, two and a half years after its birth.
Published Feb 4, 2010
More than a decade after boiling mud began spurting from the ground in East Java, the Lusi mud flow is still going strong.
Published Jun 21, 2019
Downstream of the Lusi mud flow, mangrove forests are expanding onto new land and shrimp farmers are adjusting to a muddier reality.
Published Jun 24, 2019
The tiny island shown in this image from January 11, 2011, is a mud volcano, newly emerged from the Arabian Sea.
Published Jan 21, 2011
This image from February 11, 2010, shows several mud volcanoes that rise from the desert landscape of southern Pakistan, along the coast of the Arabian Sea.
Published Mar 14, 2010
A tiny island birthed by an earthquake and a mud volcano has faded into the sea.
Published Jul 5, 2019
A piece of seafloor rose out the water after a violent earthquake shook up Earth’s crust in September 2013.
Published Sep 28, 2013
Using data acquired September 13, 2002, this 3-D visualization shows an old lahar (avalanche of volcanic mud) extending from Anyuyskiy Volcano in far eastern Russia.
Published Jan 9, 2011
Contaminated water has turned the Rio Doce orange-brown as it flows into the Atlantic Ocean.
Published Dec 3, 2015
“Stable landslide” sounds like a contradiction in terms, but there are indeed places on Earth where land has been creeping downhill slowly and harmlessly for as long as a century.
Published Feb 7, 2019
In August 2015, Cotopaxi volcano awoke with its first significant eruption in more than 70 years.
Published Sep 16, 2015
The paths of more than a dozen lahars radiate down the flanks of El Salvador’s Volcáan San Vicente in all directions following torrential rains in November 2009.
Published Nov 24, 2009
