World's Only Moving Mud Puddle

I'm coming at this from a completely different viewpoint, because both sides of my family were farmers in the Midwest. Your video had me completely flummoxed until you mentioned it's in an agricultural area, and obviously it's also a more arid region.

I've been watching the 20-year mega drought in the American West/Southwest, and the overpumping of aquifers to depths below 1,000 ft. Especially in California, you have had concrete irrigation canals, overpasses, roads, and foundations etc. settling and cracking, often severely. Even before the current Mega drought, "Some parts of the Central Valley sank 28 feet between 1925 and 1977 because of excessive pumping, according to Dr. Joseph Poland, a pioneer in land subsidence." According to the current USGS page, somes areas of California have been experiencing land subsidence of nearly one foot per year.

"California's farmers probably will pump an additional six to seven million acre-feet of water from their wells this year, above what they normally use, according to Josue Medellin-Azuara, a water expert at the University of California, Merced. That quantity would cover 10,000 square miles with a foot of water, and far exceeds the amount that naturally replenishes the aquifer, even during a year with normal rainfall." https://www.npr.org/2021/07/22/1019483661/without-enough-water-to-go-around-farmers-in-california-are-exhausting-aquifers

So what does this have to do with the price of mud pots? In California, and Arizona, we are engaged in a massive geoengineering project  changing the hydrology of extensive geographic areas over 1,000 ft deep. So we can farm rice, almonds, and alfalfa "cheaply" in an arid region. In Arizona, where large agribusinesses have installed deep pumps, some small towns literally could watch the water in their wells moving in the direction of the high volume 1,500 foot deep wells supporting the growing of crops like alfalfa (which is exported to Saudi Arabia, who also pumped their aquifers dry growing wheat back in the late 20th century) and tomatoes.

All these deep wells are moving millions of acre feet at extreme depths. The problem is while the well is usually drilled vertically, the involved aquifers are mostly horizontal formations deeper in the earth. So the source of this gas could be well below 1,500 feet but the removal of megatons of water will obviously make structural changes down deep. Obviously from the video not in a good way.

Using deep seismic soundings in the area, coupled with modern supercomputers and the modeling used by companies involved in oil exploration, could be a very beneficial project. It might highlight the deep changes being produced in these regions. Then again, like fracking, the people benefiting from this overpumping might not want these problems tracked, because their business model of destroying million-year-old aquifers might cause a public outcry. Then again, with enough spin and lobbyists, maybe not. Think lead paint and gasoline additives.