The Colombian Geological Service (SGC) reported this Monday a possible eruption of volcanic origin in the Urabá region, in the department of Antioquia (northwest), which may be associated with a mud volcano.
Images that circulated on social networks of the explosion show a large column of fire and smoke in a jungle area of San José de Mulatos, which is part of the municipality of Turbo (Antioquia).
The technical director of Geothreats at the SGC, John Makario Londoño, said in this regard that the videos are “related to a possible eruption of a mud volcano in the region of San José de Mulatos, in Urabá Antioquia” but clarified that the Geological Service is investigating what happened before confirming “whether it is an eruption or not.”
“It is very likely that it could be an eruption of many of the mud volcanoes that exist in this sector, and these types of eruptions are not strange” in that area where “there are other volcanoes such as San José de las Platas and La Lorenza”, which “have also made eruptions of this type.
Londoño clarified that “this type of mud volcanoes are very different from the volcanoes that erupt lava and magma, which are explosive and violent and can reach a very large extension affecting a large population and, in general, the ecosystem”.
Mud volcanoes “have very small rashes, very restricted and most likely what is seen in these videos as an explosion it is methane gas that ignites and explodes.
According to the SGC, these volcanoes “are the product of mud diapirism, a phenomenon by which large quantities of clay materials with plastic characteristics and high content of organic matter, water and gas were covered, from 60 million years ago onwards, by dense and thick layers of river origin”.
In Colombia there are some of the largest mud volcanoes on the planet, including the complex of the district of Santa Fe de las Platas, in the municipality of Arboletes (Antioquia), which has a 8,000 meter dome in diameter”.
To the east of Santa Fe de las Platas is the Mulatos volcano, also between the largest in the world.
Around the afternoon of today, November 11, 2024, videos began to circulate on social networks about the possible eruption of a mud volcano located in San José de Mulatos, in Urabá, Antioquia. Our technical director of Geoamenzas, John Makario Londoño, tells us… pic.twitter.com/a93IPgnZH0
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