Portal:Indonesia/POTW/6, 2007

Homes sunk deep under 60° C hot mud in Porong, East Java province. The mud flow disaster has erupted on average between 7,000 and 150,000 cubic metres daily since 28 May 2006, after an exploratory drilling process by the private Indonesian company PT Lapindo Brantas.

Photo credit: Arifhidayat.