Mark Tingay

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The Mud Volcano Guy - I love and study mud volcanoes! Geomechanics & pore pressure specialist. Opinions my own.

Flames and mud erupting from the Wandan mud volcano with sunset in the background.
Big mushroom shaped fireball lighting up the night sky
Mud and flames eruption violently from a hillside.
Seismograph recording of low frequency earthquake waves from today’s earthquake near Timor, ~2800km from my seismograph in Kuala Lumpur.
Fire, smoke and mud erupting high up into the air from a large mud volcano.
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.
Map of the Tanimbar Islands with pins marking the locations of ~20 mud volcanoes.
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.
Small mud volcano vent with visible recently erupted dark grey mud.
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.
A small 60cm high conical mud vent bubbling gas and erupting small streams of grey mud.
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.
Bubbling mud and flames from the Wandan mud volcano with a yellow temple in the background.
Bubbling mud and flames from the Wandan mud volcano with a yellow temple in the background.
Highly viscous flow of bitumen from the roof of a mine shaft
Big black flow of highly viscous bitumen pouring out of the rock and forming big snaking ropes on the ground. The flow is bigger than the miner standing next to it.
Thick black rope of bitumen that has poured out of the roof of a mine shaft, snaking in big loops on the ground. Three miners are next to the seep, showing that it is taller than a person and wider than a leg. It’s not really relevant, but one of the miners is holding onto a chicken egg that they have put on the bitumen flow, because, well, why not??
Mobile phone destroyed by volcanic eruption
Calculator melted by volcanic eruption
3D printed tissue box of a Salton Sea mud volcano.
Lego Perseverance Mars rover
Textbook summary of Kumani Bank eruptions
Pillar of fire from the 4th July 2021 eruption of Dashli Island, offshore Azerbaijan. Source: Zamanaze