Mud Volcano Thrusts up from the Sea
It is growing under the sea off Trinidad - a mud volcano that fills people who live nearby with foreboding and may soon emerge as the world's newest island.
Since it was discovered in May by a pair of spearfishermen 5 miles off Trinidad's eastern shore, the mud volcano has attracted hordes of sightseers who trek to a bluff to watch waves crash over its summit, which measures 160 feet across.
Mud volcanoes are created when natural gases, often methane, escape pressurised areas from shallower levels in the crust. There is no larva or magma. The new mud volcano poses no threat to people on land.