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Geolog Internasional Bahas Lumpur Lapindo di London
Jakarta (ANTARA News) – Lebih 100 pakar geologi dari berbagai universitas ternama di dunia, termasuk Indonesia, mengadakan pertemuan dua-hari mulai Selasa di London untuk membahas fenomena semburan Lumpur Sidoarjo, Jawa Timur. Hal tersebut disampaikan pakar dari Universitas Durham, Dr. Richard Davies, dalam jumpa pers di London, Senin, terkait konferensi internasional para ahli kebumian internasional dengan…
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Temuan Baru tentang Lumpur Lapindo
Luapan lumpur itu hampir dipastikan diakibatkan oleh kesalahan pengeboran yang dilakukan oleh Lapindo Brantas Inc dan bukan akibat efek dari gempa bumi. oleh Rusdi Mathari SEBUAH tim peneliti independen yang terdiri dari para ahli geologi dari Universitas Durham, Inggris dan Universitas California, Amerika Serikat, kemarin mengungkapkan temuan penting sehubungan semburan lumpur panas Lapindo di Porong,…
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New report says Indonesia mud disaster man-made
The report found the effect of the earthquake was minimal, with only a “tiny” resulting change to underground pressure. It said scientists were 99 per cent certain drilling operations were to blame.
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Indonesian Firms Denied Drilling Caused Mud Volcano
Richard Davies told Reuters on Thursday that the well was being drilled next to a mud volcano at the same time it erupted.
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Two Years On, a Mud Volcano Still Rages and Bewilders
Lapindo brought in a consultant from Houston, Texas, who directed the drilling of two relief wells. This effort was abandoned because Lapindo ran out of money.
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Confronting evidence questions cause of mud eruption disaster
The Yogyakarta earthquake was at least ten times too small to have triggered such a disaster, whilst the well that was drilled only 200 metres away from the volcano is the more likely cause.
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Mud volcano ‘on brink of collapse’
Since it began spewing noxious mud and gasses on May 29 2006, Lusi has blanketed an area of around 7 cubic kilometres, covering 10,426 houses, 35 schools, 65 mosques and one orphanage.
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Lusi sinking into its own caldera
The world’s fastest-growing mud volcano is collapsing by up to three metres overnight, suggests new research.
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Volcano of mud makes 50,000 homeless
The government only needs to have the political will and the political courage to push the company to pay compensation.
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Lusi: not man-made after all?
Neither of these claims is supported by hard data in the paper, so where the two papers disagree on vital and important facts, it is rather difficult to assess who is right.
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Happy Birthday, Lusi (the Drilling Totally Did It)
We don’t say that PT Lapindo Brantas should be blamed for the eruption. The drilling practices used were somehow deficient.
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Lapindo vs Rakyat vs Negara
Rakyat dan negara akan ‘dikorbankan’. Lumpur yang sudah menyembur dua tahun itu bakal divonis sebagai bencana alam.
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Lapindo, Davies, dan Tingay
Tragis, uang rakyat dipakai untuk menanggung kerugian yang amat besar akibat ulah Lapindo.
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Experts set for Cape Town, Vexing Mud Flow Cause Disputed
The forums purpose is to draw a line under the scientific controversy as to whether the mud volcano was caused by PT Lapindo Brantas or whether it was caused by natural forces, like an earthquake.
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Mining company ‘likely to blame’ for deadly volcano
The Lusi eruption that began more than two years ago was most likely caused by the mining company failing to properly reinforce a problematic gas well.