Geography in the News

2A have started a digest of geography stories in the news-each lesson, they'll write up the story, and copy it to this blog. Today's story is the mud flow in Java, shown on the map below-

Thousands of people on the Indonesian island of Java have been forced from their homes by tonnes of
hot mud and gas.The sludge, which has been spewing out of the ground for more
than two months, is the result of a crack in a gas drilling project near Indonesia's second city, Surabaya