For 10 years the land was muddy attack

In the first months after the disaster in Sidoarjo, Indonesia, the average crater boiling mud sprayed 98 million liters per day, swallowed 12 villages and left nearly 40,000 homeless.

Just 6 am, Muslimah, 45 years old, porridge and fried to relatively compressed tunnel for her husband and children. After the meal, she was wearing a baseball cap and start working. As many people in East Java were left homeless by volcanic mudelse, Muslimah earned a living as taxi driving (ojek). Muslimah's passengers are tourists flock to see the ruins at the scene where her family lived.

This time, the mud covered an area of over 6500km ² . Some dried mud where many cracks to form, while other wet places special. At the edge strip, white smoke still rises from the crater, according to the Chicago Tribune.

Although 10 years have passed, still remembers Muslimah month 5/2006 morning, when boiling mud and violent gas explosion from the ground in Sidoarjo, a small district in East Java, Indonesia. "I was terrified " she said. " The scene was scary then. Mud welling up like a tall black tower to heaven. "

Over time, the wet mud continued to flow out from a single point, inundating homes, fields, factories, while villagers hurriedly gathered her belongings and leave. Wet mud keeps erupting since. Within a month, the Muslimah house completely flooded.

In Sidoarjo mud flood disaster is the longest that Indonesia had to face. Every year on 29/5, those who lost their homes to celebrate the eruption.

The houses in the district of Sidoarjo, Indonesia, submerged beneath the liquid mud.(Photo: Blogspot).

According to the Flood Troubleshooting Sidoarjo mud (BPLS), a government organization established in 2007 to monitor disaster recovery, in the first month, the average crater sprayed 98 million liters of sludge boiling a day. This rate was then reduced to 26-57 million liters. Over the past decade, boiling mud swallowed 12 villages, leaving 39,000 people homeless. In many places around where the flood of mud, methane leakage risk explode with a spark, though over time, this risk is diminishing.

Not only tourists for sightseeing pulled to Sidoarjo, scientists appear here to measure and collect specimens. So far, experts still debate the origins of this disaster. Indonesia is a country famous for its volcanic activity and seismic. Some argue that the strong earthquake of 6.3 magnitude in the city of Jogjakarta is a 257km just two days before the eruption was triggered this disaster.

Most likely the unit must be responsible for the disaster in Sidoarjo mud flood is Lapindo Brantas , an oil company drilling for gas at each location 244m from it. "We are confident and 99% that the hypothesis of staging drilling is reasonable " , New York Times quoted Mark Tingay, a geological scientist at the University of Adelaide, Australia, lead author of the study published in the mud flood in the journal nature Geoscience last year.

"Currently, we believe that the mud will not stop flowing. At first, many people tried to stop the mud eruption. Researchers and technicians who made ​​many recommendations, but no plans are successful " , Riko Aditya, the head of the monitoring group activities in BPLS, said. " Now, our goal I just prevent mud spilled out. "

Scene of the disaster area is surrounded by levees made ​​of compacted earth lasted nearly 16km. With funding from the company Lapindo and the government of Indonesia, fences are built, repaired and enhanced then, because the mud continues to rise. In May 7/2015, BPLS estimates the area contains more than 40 million m ³ sludge, compared to 30 million m ³ in 2010. "The only solution at present is Dredger" Riko said.

A dredge camps born in Sidoarjo mud. Dredger to discharge into the Porong River mitigation options remain the only possible damage.

Disaster major impact on the water environment. Dewi Hidayati, professor of biology at the Institute of Technology in Surabaya nearby cities, analyzing survival rate of fish in Porong River from 2010 through 2013. "In the downstream of the wastewater, the dominant species the species can adapt to the mud. The remaining species have died out " , Hidayati said. " Mud also alters their habitat. For example, the current fish spawn more difficult because of mud-covered river. The fish are under pressure. "

Some studies have tracked changes in the environment surrounding the area mudslides, from biodiversity to land subsidence. According Hidayati, though disturbing, mudslides caused no direct impact on human health, but should conduct more thorough research.

according to VnExpress