Piparo mud volcano a cause for concern....

[shake d livin wake d dead]

This story was on news tonight..According to residents,they claim that this volcano is active once again,with loud noises coming from the volcano late at nights...One resident said that since Thursday loud sounds like "scratch bombs" were heard...Residents are now in fear as to whether the volcano would erupt again..The ODPM says they're keeping an eye on it..

well we'd see what happens.....
btw,is anyone in here affected by it? or was affected by it? erupted in 1997...

[Toyopet]

Wasn't affected, was there when it was being recorded though.
I've been hearing that talk since yesterday but I'm not close enough to hear

[MadCrix]

yea heard from cousins it makign funky noises a couple nights ago

a wall cracked ect..

[Paullct]

[VexXx Dogg]

What does the UWI Seismic unit have to say?

[shake d livin wake d dead]

so hopefully if it does erupt again,people would be better informed and well better prepared?

[MadCrix]

breds is trinidad, we never prepared for anything

[SUPAstarr]

re too reactive, we will wait till it erupt, then ODPM will rush enn an say everyting under control

[shake d livin wake d dead]

breds is trinidad, we never prepared for anything

true eh

[Team Loco]

I remember going to the site 1 day after the last eruption. (Odpm apparantly wasn't around then). That was real devestation. Remember seeing the front portion of a 280c sticking out from the mud.

[KURMAman]

My physics students went to the site..we're doing monitoring of the volcano bout 8 years now... here are some pics they took.





this was always there..but it had increased mudflow


and this was a new vent..rather deep as well

[Mark!]

hmmm interesting

There REL different from what it looked liked wen the eruption now occurred jed, wit houses all around and stuff

[Team Loco]

Mud will flow!

[sliderz1]

recent pics??

[shake d livin wake d dead]

if the ODPM really monitoring it as they say,then should be giving frequent updates,not so?

[sliderz1]

^best case scenario

[Toyopet]

What the neighbours are saying is that with all the rain, the vents have gotten clogged so when a great enough pressure builds, it gives off a kinda mini explosion, although one house on the old Piparo Main Rd did get some damage

[~Vēġó~]

it shall erupt soon!!!!

[S_2NR]

if the ODPM really monitoring it as they say,then should be giving frequent updates,not so?

ODPM is a big waste

[D.S.S]

any update? heard it getting serious.

[shake d livin wake d dead]

I doubt we would get an update until something serious happens....ODPM is really ah waste yes..

[MonsterPower]

went up there y'day .. looks the same as it was a couple of months ago .. cant really predict if this thing is gonna blow

spoke to some pple and they said even back then there was little indication the blowout would have been at that magnitude

[DSM_05]

spoke to some pple and they said even back then there was little indication the blowout would have been at that magnitude

This is true. I had actually passed through that area a month or so before the last "big" eruption. When I asked where the mud volcano was, a fellow (at the time) laughed and showed me something resembling a couple of small pot holes in the grass just off the road.

Of course, a month later, the scene was alot different!

[RIPEBREDFRUIT]

as the song goes, Oh the weather out side's delightful,

let if FLOW, let it FLOW, let it FLOW............................

[stev]

i remember a time it erupted and i was a child..i thought i was gonna die....and i livin chaguanas side. lol

[MonsterPower]

i remember a time it erupted and i was a child..i thought i was gonna die....and i livin chaguanas side. lol

didnt grow up much did we?

[stev]

i remember a time it erupted and i was a child..i thought i was gonna die....and i livin chaguanas side. lol

didnt grow up much did we?

nope...if i grow up i will die.

[The_Honourable]

Piparo mud volcano waiting to erupt

Geologists see changes within the main vent

Ge­ol­o­gists say pres­sure is build­ing up be­neath the sur­face of the Pi­paro mud vol­cano giv­ing cre­dence to the pos­si­bil­i­ty that there could be an erup­tion some­time in the fu­ture. Ac­tive changes have al­so been seen on the sur­face and sub­sur­face of the vol­canic vents which erupt­ed 22 years ago, dis­plac­ing 31 fam­i­lies and killing live­stock and birds.

Dur­ing an in­ter­view, res­i­dent Pamela Khan said she hoped an ac­cu­rate pre­dic­tion could be made as to when the vol­cano will erupt. Khan said she was 12 when the vol­cano erupt­ed on Feb­ru­ary 22, 1997.

"My fa­ther told me that be­fore the erup­tion they were hear­ing hiss­ing nois­es and gas was com­ing up from be­low the ground long be­fore the vol­cano erupt­ed," Khan said.

This time around she is hop­ing that the geo­sci­en­tists' warn­ing could en­able evac­u­a­tion be­fore an erup­tion.

More: http://www.guardian.co.tt/life/piparo-m ... 233bd02882

[Cantmis]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mud_volcano

[sMASH]

Ooohhh