Will Blora Mudflow become Lapindo Volume 2? This is the expert said

JAKARTA, KOMPAS.TV – A viral video spreads again in the community about the eruption of the hot mud crater in the Randublatung Forest Management Unit (KPH), Gabusan Village, Jati District, Blora Regency, Central Java, on Thursday (8/27/ 2020).

The hot mud eruption is temporarily believed to be a mud volcano that generally occurs near areas containing oil and natural gas.

Meanwhile, the area around Grobogan, Cepu and Blora is an oil basin area.

Researchers from the Center for Geotechnology Research of the Indonesian Research Institute (LIPI), Prof. Dr. Ir Jan Sopaheluwakan MSc, explained that the mud volcano is a symptom of mud erupting that resembles a volcano.

“About 2.5 km from the Gabusan location, if you look at Google Earth, there is a circular morphological appearance so that the whitish color that I suspect is an older mud volcano,” Jan told Kompas.com on Friday ( 8/28/2020).

Previously, in 2013, the same phenomenon occurred in that place. Is there a possibility of a Lapindo II mud flow?

The appearance of this hot mud worries the local inhabitants for fear that this phenomenon will have an impact like the Lapindo mud in Sidoarjo.