New Official Map of Giant Sinkhole Dimensions Shows Significant Growth

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Officials confirm the crude oil covering the giant sinkhole in Assumption Parish, LA is coming from a massive underground formations(s) of crude oil and gas, and officials don't know how to stop it. In the Napoleonville Salt Dome below the sinkhole, there is an estimated 500 billion cubic feet of gas and 200 millions gallons of crude oil.

A new map of the sinkhole's dimensions was uploaded to the Assumption Parish website at 11:45a ET on October 14, 2012.

Red line: August 19, 2012; Green line: September 21, 2012; Blue line: October 14, 2012; Yellow line is the containment boom marking the former perimeter of the sinkhole.

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Officials Admit Crude Oil and Methane are Coming from Massive Underground Formation Below Sinkhole

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Below Sinkhole: 500 billion cubic feet of gas, 200 million gallons of oil estimate in Napoleonville Salt Dome.

CP note: Sounds like the situation may be getting out of hand...

Sinkhole Meeting: We don't know how we're going to stop crude oil form coming to surface--Turning to international experts for help:

Question: If crude is coming from the natural source from one of these three layers, how can you possibly stop, eventually it would get...?

Official: The question is, is the crude oil that's possibly coming from one of these individual layers from the outside area of the salt dome, how to stop it from entering the salt cavern I'm assuming, and as well as how to stop it from coming to the surface and through the water aquifer?

Gary Hecox, Geologist with Shaw Environmental: I can't tell you how we're going to stop it, right now, I can tell you what we're doing to get to that end. And that is we're talking to experts all over the country and some of them are overseas, who are experts in seismology, rock mechanics and related features. And we're talking to those folks to get their input to help us address that very question you asked. Right now, I don't have any ind of answer. But we are working on, that's on of the things DNR has tasked Shaw to do is be able to look at that as to what created the problem in the first place. And then a second part, what are we going to do about it.

Reports of Mysterious Loud Earthquakes Flooding in to Louisiana Towns

Reports of mysterious loud earthquakes flooding in to Louisiana towns — “Of course the sinkhole comes to mind” — Dozens of miles away — So rare, no seismic monitors in area

 

Local News: Reports of mysterious loud earthquakes flooding in to Louisiana towns — “Of course the sinkhole comes to mind” — Dozens of miles away — So rare, no seismic monitors in area

Title: Mysterious tremors raise questions
Source: Daily Comet
Author: Xerxes A. Wilson
Date: October 4, 2012 at 10:59p ET

h/t Anonymous tip

Nobody quite knows what caused the ground in some parts of Lafourche and Terrebonne parishes to shake, but it certainly has people talking.

Giant sinkhole is located in Assumption Parish

Breaking News:

Louisiana Sinkhole Alarms Reported, Seismic Activity Spikes

Louisiana sinkhole area residents reported to Assumption Parish officials hearing alarms over the weekend, but were told by officials that alarms are not going off. The alarm reports coincide with a spike in seismic activity, according to The University of Memphis Center for Earthquake Research and Information (CERI), and also might coincide with resumed drilling into the sinkhole area after Tropical Storm Isaac left it.

Just hearing bells? Alarms heard might link to Bayou Corne sinkhole area seismic activity at Monitors #3 and #9 near Hwy. 70

According to the University of Memphis team's hellicorder charts of two of the six seismic monitors its Louisiana sinkhole team placed in the sinkhole area, monitors # 3 and # 9 at locations near Highway 70 in the Bayou Corne area, have recorded unusually higher seismic activity on September 2.

Those recordings are much higher than on previous days and at other locations that the team of scientists are monitoring in the area, according to the university CERI hellicorder dated graphs.