Want to support more videos like this? Patreon.com/physicsgirl A mud puddle started moving across the California desert, and no one knows why. Dianna visited the mud spring to find out how a puddle became declared a natural disaster. Special thanks to our Sally Ride level patrons: Carlos Patricio, David Cichowski, Eddie Sabbah, Fabrice Eap, Jeremy Glowacki Margaux Lopez, Matt Kaminski, Patrick Olson, reddragonlr, Tommy Joseph, Vincent Argiro, Vikram Bhat, wc993219. https://www.patreon.com/physicsgirl 0:00 - Where is it? 1:07 - What does it look like? 2:19 - Where it began 2:44 - What is it? 4:03 - Why all the rock sunk 4:38 - What happened to the wall? 5:05 - Why you'd suffocate 5:49 - A mysterious push from the other side 7:24 - What can we do? 8:37 - Relief well disaster 9:12 - Why is it moving? 10:29 - Sneak peek of new video http://physicsgirl.org/ http://twitter.com/thephysicsgirl http://facebook.com/thephysicsgirl http://instagram.com/thephysicsgirl Creator/Host: Dianna Cowern Editor: Levi Butner Production Assistant: Hope Butner Thanks to Caltrans and Shannon & Wilson Sources: https://www.thedesertreview.com/news/niland-geyser-continues-to-threaten-imperial-county/article_c7254920-08b4-11eb-abd6-9fc327c80af0.html https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/81711/salton-trough https://www.scec.org/publication/8562 https://www.desertusa.com/desert-california/niland-geyser.html https://dot.ca.gov/caltrans-near-me/district-11/current-projects/sr111-nilandgeyser Salton sea: https://www.nwaonline.com/news/2019/dec/15/dying-salton-sea-now-birthing-lush-area/ Earthquake swarms: https://darchive.mblwhoilibrary.org/bitstream/handle/1912/2974/roland_mcguire-gji.pdf?sequence=1