Morbi: A well in a quiet corner of Gujarat’s Morbi district has turned into an unlikely tourist spot this week, and it’s not hard to see why. For five straight days, the water inside an 18-foot well in Veerparda village has been rippling and churning on its own — no wind machine, no one stirring it, just water moving like something underneath won’t sit still. Videos of it have been doing the rounds on social media, and people are understandably curious.
Naturally, the first thing anyone thinks of is an earthquake. Officials have already ruled that out. There’s been no seismic activity recorded anywhere near the site.
So What’s Actually Causing It?
District Geologist J S Vadher, who visited the site on the district collector’s orders, says the explanation is far less dramatic than an earthquake even if it looks that way on camera. “This is not a seismic activity. Prima facie, it appears that following heavy upstream rainfall, groundwater is recharging and air trapped in the pore spaces of rocks is being released, causing the disturbance in the well,” he said.
He added a second factor to the mix: the well’s location right along the roadside means wind flow may also be playing a part in the fluctuation. Officials also reached out to the Institute of Seismological Research in Gandhinagar, which confirmed there’s no active fault line running anywhere near the area ruling out the more alarming explanation before it could spread further as rumor.
In Gujarat, a new 18 feet well shows ongoing wave like water oscillations, while nearby wells stay still.
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District Collector has ordered a probe.
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The movement hasn’t been entirely constant, either. It briefly died down on Tuesday, only to pick back up again Wednesday evening, pulling in another wave of curious onlookers from Veerparda and neighboring villages. At times, the water has also turned turbid, adding to the sense that something genuinely unusual is happening beneath the surface — even if the cause turns out to be fairly mundane hydrogeology.
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Morbi District Collector Swapnil Khare confirmed a team from Gandhinagar would be sent to investigate further. “We have informed the Gujarat government about it, and a team from Gandhinagar will visit the site for further investigation,” he said, while also urging people not to let the phenomenon spiral into unfounded fear. “People should stay away from any rumours or reports spreading fear,” he added.
The Farmer Who First Noticed It
Pranjivan Sadariya, who owns the farmland where the well sits, was the one who first spotted something was off. He says he noticed it on August 2. “When I arrived at my farm on Sunday, water from the well was spilling over the edge, and the same thing has continued ever since,” he said. The well itself isn’t old — Sadariya says it was dug only around three months ago, just ahead of this year’s monsoon.
How Netizens Are Reacting
The video has, predictably, sparked a flood of theories in the comments. One user offered a geographic guess: “The vicinity to ocean can do this. Need to know about the location.”
Another user went deeper into the science, describing the event as a “well seiche” and crediting geologists — including Vadher by name — for attributing it to rainwater recharging aquifers and releasing trapped air and gas from rock pore spaces under pressure, which then shows up as turbulence on the surface. They also noted that seismic activity has been explicitly ruled out, both by local experts and the Institute of Seismological Research.
A third comment took a more skeptical angle entirely, floating the idea that it could just as easily be explained by wind, a minor earthquake, or even something manufactured suggesting someone could have caused it manually or with equipment and simply filmed it happening.
For now, officials are sticking with the science: heavy rainfall, trapped air escaping through rock pores, and a bit of roadside wind nothing supernatural, and nothing seismic.