Mud volcanoes

Mud volcanoes deliver less of a hassle for people. They do not emit huge clouds of volcanic ash that fell asleep during the eruption of all the neighborhoods. Mud volcanoes are not cave in the nearby towns clouds of red-hot stones and fill the neighborhood streams of molten lava. Mud volcano eruption less destructive and grandiose in his anger. But there are times when waking up mud volcano creates a catastrophe. Such a case occurred in 1902 during the eruption of the volcano Bozdag - Gezdensky. This volcano locals believed extinct. The crater it represented the vast, grassy bowl. On the southern side of the crater was a small fracture. At night in these parts blew a piercing wind. Shepherds in the cold, windy night herded sheep in the crater of an old volcano. So it was that fateful night. One eyewitness has described the tragedy: "... At night, shepherds herded the flock in the crater of an extinct volcano. It was falsely watered the flock, to protect them from chilly winds and hungry wolves. Night silence suddenly exploded. With a terrible roar of the earth opened, huge flames enveloped the entire crater. Then poured from the depths of a powerful stream of black mud .. Shepherds and sheep have died in hot streams. The Caspian Sea is often erupt underwater mud volcanoes. On the night of 25 to 26 February 1953 in a sea of ??rapid eruption occurred Buzovninskoy hill, which is located on the northeast coast of the Absheron peninsula. Underwater mud volcano lathered whole island. In 1977, fully showed his fiery temper is one of the largest and most active mud volcanoes in the Caspian Sea coast - Lokbatan. He woke up suddenly. Initially, the neighborhood resounded with rumble, then a powerful explosion was heard. Over the summit of the volcano rose a roaring column of flame hundreds of feet in height - flared escaped from the depths of subsurface gases. A few tens of kilometers around was bright as day.