Baratang Mud Volcano Erupts, Spreads ‘Mud Breccia’ Over Huge Space

Tarun Karthick

Sri Vijaya Puram, 03 October 2025

The mud volcano close to Jarawa Creek Village in Baratang, a well-liked vacationer spot, erupted at round 11:00 AM on 2 October 2025, sending a combination of mud, water, and gases over a big space surrounding the volcanic opening.

Just earlier than the eruption, a video was recorded displaying Mr. Yousuf Khan, an ex-serviceman and native resident, warning vacationers to avoid the volcano, because it was making uncommon noises and will erupt. In the video, he cautioned that anybody venturing too shut might get trapped if the volcano erupted.

Locals praised Mr. Khan on a regional WhatsApp group for alerting others, which probably prevented accidents, because the eruption later unfold mud slurry throughout a number of hundred meters.

Baratang’s mud volcanoes are fashioned on account of geological exercise beneath the Earth’s floor, together with tectonic compression and the discharge of gases and fluids from underground sediments. Here, the Indian tectonic plate is subducting beneath the Burmese plate, releasing gases reminiscent of methane and hydrogen sulfide, together with mud and water by fault strains. Unlike magma volcanoes, these mud volcanoes erupt mud and fluids on account of overpressure in sediment layers, typically triggered or intensified by seismic exercise.

The erupted materials, often known as mud breccia, carries fragments of rock, minerals, and organic-rich mud from deep underground. Locals had been reportedly shocked by the size of Thursday’s eruption. The flowing slurry additionally broken rails and different eco-friendly infrastructure put in for vacationers on the website.

Last month, the Barren Island Volcano—India’s solely lively volcano—erupted twice inside eight days, on 13 and 20 September 2025. Although Baratang’s mud volcanoes and Barren Island are geologically distinct, the shut timing of their eruptions has sparked curiosity amongst residents.