Piparo mud volcano a cause for concern....

[D Diesel Report]

breds is trinidad, we never prepared for anything

Dis is how Trini does prepare for ting. Make joke and gape at it.

Trini lucky God didn't decide to kill all ah dem dat day. He muss hav Trini roots. But wha go happen wen he migrate!

[sMASH]

https://www.facebook.com/TTWeatherCente ... 1436348557

piparo mud volcano acting up, since around 10 pm, people evacuating

[shake d livin wake d dead]

Interesting weekend

[shake d livin wake d dead]

Cnc3 is stating that it has erupted....confirmation?

[sMASH]

Cnc3 is stating that it has erupted....confirmation?

stories said loud noise around 10, large cracks opened up all over, and strong sulfur smell. so probably some gas belched up.

[wickedtuna]

What I saw

[The_Honourable]

12:15 AM Piparo Update: A loud explosion was heard by residents at 10:08 PM, with cracks appearing across roads, & homes at 10:20 PM across Pancho Trace. Some residents have self evacuated.

Though there has been no confirmed eruption at the Piparo Mud Volcano, there are cracks on the roadway, one home has been damaged due to property cracks, a landslip, and a high sulphur smell according to MP Barry Padarath. He also added, there are no ongoing evacuations.

Based on latest reports, there are at least three homes affected.

More on Mud Volcanoes: https://ttweathercenter.com/mud-volcanoes

This is a developing story.

Source: https://www.facebook.com/TTWeatherCente ... 8643006503

[The_Honourable]

Videos courtesy CNC3

[matr1x]

Rowley boss come up from the underworld. Doh study it, Rohan will pave it up once the bribes pass

[maj. tom]

It's too remarkable that people would build/are allowed to build their homes so close to an active mud volcano. It's obvious what will happen when nature decides to take back what is hers. The local seismic activity alone would make life miserable. After that huge eruption about 20 years ago, the Government should have created a no-build safe zone with advice from experts on how to handle such situations again. But now, looking at Google Earth maps we can see people's houses right on the edge of the mudflow circumference.

[sMASH]

To me, it diesnt seem close by. It's like a 6 acres boundary.

Is just that, underground, seems to spread.

[88sins]

It's too remarkable that people would build/are allowed to build their homes so close to an active mud volcano. It's obvious what will happen when nature decides to take back what is hers. The local seismic activity alone would make life miserable. After that huge eruption about 20 years ago, the Government should have created a no-build safe zone with advice from experts on how to handle such situations again. But now, looking at Google Earth maps we can see people's houses right on the edge of the mudflow circumference.

some ppl just plain dotish. Those are the same sort that will build a house 50 feet away from a massive river that is known to regularly burst its banks.
I got somewhere between zero and -100% sympathy for those types.

[sMASH]

But at the end of the day, some just uneducated, and 5hsrs why we have things like Ema and town and country...

Don't blame the theif fur theifing, blame the police fir not catching them.

[maj. tom]

[The_Honourable]

Piparo mud volcano about to blow, stay away says geoscientist



Senior geoscientist Xavier Moonan is advising citizens not to venture near the Piparo mud volcano saying drone surveys indicate it is about to blow.

Moonan and his team toured the volcano on Sunday morning, hours after residents reported seeing fissures and cracks around the area. Several homes suffered extensive damages.

In an interview, Moonan said, " We just drone surveyed the mud volcano. We should advise people to not venture onto it at least. It looks like it may blow very soon. We are seeing up to two feet of motion on some fractures."

In May, the geoscientist reported interesting changes on the surface and subsurface of the volcanic vents which erupted on February 22, 1997 displacing 31 families and killing livestock and birds.

During the eruption, thick warm liquid mud spewed up to 200ft in the air. The expanse of volcanic dirt covered an area of 2.5 km.

Moonan said it was the first mud volcano eruption in the world which resulted in the displacement of lives and damage to infrastructure.

Chairman of the Couva/Tabaquite/Talparo Regional Corporation Henry Awong in a recent interview said they were continuing to monitor the volcano and put systems in place in the event of an eruption.

However, he noted that the Corporation does not have the capacity to respond directly because of limited resources.

"We have other responsible agencies which can assist in that operation, " he said.

Over the past few months the Piparo Community Emergency Response Team has been getting residents prepared in the event that the volcano blows.

Source: http://www.cnc3.co.tt/press-release/pip ... oscientist

[matr1x]

Is it a pnm stronghold?




Expect no help.

[maj. tom]

It's not just the boiling mud though. Volcanoes emit very toxic gases, some smelly, but some with no smell at all like Carbon Monoxide and Carbon Dioxide. There have been incidents around the world where entire villages and livestock have been silently wiped out by a rolling wave of CO gas from a volcano. CO poisoning is where you just fall asleep and never wake up, never knowing what happened. That's why they need to have a safe zone where no one is allowed. Is how the Top Scientist telling everyone and the Government not doing a mandatory evacuation!!! Just because it's mud doesn't make it less dangerous than a lava volcano.

[EFFECTIC DESIGNS]

It's too remarkable that people would build/are allowed to build their homes so close to an active mud volcano. It's obvious what will happen when nature decides to take back what is hers. The local seismic activity alone would make life miserable. After that huge eruption about 20 years ago, the Government should have created a no-build safe zone with advice from experts on how to handle such situations again. But now, looking at Google Earth maps we can see people's houses right on the edge of the mudflow circumference.

This is Trinidad, even if the government tried to stop anyone from building houses near a volcano it would just be free land for squatters to go build shacks.

Just look at Greenvale that place surrounded by rivers and imagine that is a government project eh.

[rspann]

It's too remarkable that people would build/are allowed to build their homes so close to an active mud volcano. It's obvious what will happen when nature decides to take back what is hers. The local seismic activity alone would make life miserable. After that huge eruption about 20 years ago, the Government should have created a no-build safe zone with advice from experts on how to handle such situations again. But now, looking at Google Earth maps we can see people's houses right on the edge of the mudflow circumference.

This is Trinidad, even if the government tried to stop anyone from building houses near a volcano it would just be free land for squatters to go build shacks.

Just look at Greenvale that place surrounded by rivers and imagine that is a government project eh.

Sold to the govt by one of it's financers.

[Rovin]

this country has 100 problems but d mud volcano aint 1 of them ....

[Sōsuke Aizen]

A major disaster could come and kill thousands and still pnmites wont learn thats just how dumb people in this country is

[wagonrunner]

some ppl just plain dotish. Those are the same sort that will build a house 50 feet away from a massive river that is known to regularly burst its banks.
I got somewhere between zero and -100% sympathy for those types.

Dotish people. word.
So for example.
The blue lines are the river bank.
Pre 2010 or so, the green lines were the flood plain, about 60' either side form the bank.
Now the red line is the flood plain when its really bad.
Notice the structures jutting out to the blue line on the southern side?
When would you guess they went up?
If you say after 2010, you be right.
With zero penalty.


another example at a different point along the same river.
the black and white pole on the right is the start of the road bridge over the river
What do you see it behind it?
But couva-tabaquite regional cooperation seems fine with it.

[shake d livin wake d dead]

Govt not going to evacuate Piparo and environs cuz they doh have a minister representing that area

[originalbling]

another example at a different point along the same river.
the black and white pole on the right is the start of the road bridge over the river
What do you see it behind it?
But couva-tabaquite regional cooperation seems fine with it.

What about further up east from there by the medical place. That area always flooding after heavy rain but nobody trying to find out the cause or a solution. I am sure somebody block a channel that allowed water to flow into the drain under the pavement or something. There is still water there this morning.

[Toyopet]

All those buildings you see with exception of 1 business was there prior to 1997.

There is a 1km radius buffer zone that you will not get approval for if you wished to build.

It's too remarkable that people would build/are allowed to build their homes so close to an active mud volcano. It's obvious what will happen when nature decides to take back what is hers. The local seismic activity alone would make life miserable. After that huge eruption about 20 years ago, the Government should have created a no-build safe zone with advice from experts on how to handle such situations again. But now, looking at Google Earth maps we can see people's houses right on the edge of the mudflow circumference.

[ruffneck_12]

hmmm


If only we had some kinda expert in the mechanics of inner workings of the earth in a high position of power that could give advice on housing schemes around this geological phenomenon


Hmmmmmmm

[The_Honourable]

Piparo Mud Volcano update

Heavily fractured area 40ft north of the current active vent has had a net uplift of 1.2ft when compared to previous drone topography survey conducted in August 2019.

The dextral motion (to the right) along the fractures and deeper faults are resulting in localised uplift and release of trapped highly pressured gases and fluids (mud) in the subsurface. If there is further motion along the faults, coupled with the area becoming more saturated with rainfall, the subsurface pressures will increase and may breach leading to a possible eruption.

Be vigilant and do not venture onto the Piparo mud volcano until authorities deem it safe enough to do so.





Source: https://www.facebook.com/AAPGYPTT/posts ... 0248834672

[ruffneck_12]

eh fellas leh we go check out the mud volcano nah

[sMASH]

The one that erupted deep In the forest, if the off road crew could make that a run... It would be cool.

[TrinidadEditing]

All of those houses were there before the volcano initially erupted in 1997. Most people cannot afford to just pick up and start over somewhere else