Hot mudflows struck Indonesia’s Roburan Dolok village in North Sumatra on April 25, 2025, damaging crops across the region and contaminating the water supply of four villages.
A major eruption of the Cacahual (El Aburrido) mud volcano in Antioquia, Colombia, on November 11, 2024, resulted in injuries to at least eight people and significant damage to nearby homes. The eruption produced a large fireball, affecting multiple communities and prompting evacuations for dozens of families. Cacahual’s history includes a fatal eruption in 1992 that resulted in seven deaths and 20 injuries.
Following a powerful M7.5 earthquake that struck the Tanimbar Islands in Indonesia’s Maluku Province on January 10, 2023, researchers have discovered new dome-shaped mud eruption mounds on two small islands near the large Kabawa mud volcano. These mounds reach up to 3 meters (9.8 feet) in height and cover areas of up to approximately 700 m2 (7 534 feet2).
