“Our new research essentially disproves all existing earthquake-triggering models,” said one of the study’s authors, Mark Tingay, adjunct associate professor with the University of Adelaide’s Australian School of Petroleum.
Many have long blamed the mud flow on poor drilling practices and the subsequent blowout at Lapindo Brantas’ Banjar Panji-1 onshore gas exploration well and not an earthquake near Yogyakarta a few days before.
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