Did you know that
the gas crater Darvaza, known as “The Gateway to Hell”, “The Door to
Hell” on the Web, is a hole which is 70 meters wide, in the Karakum
desert in Turkmenistan. It literally is burning hole.
Darvaza
The fire is fueled by natural gas and
burns from about 42 years, since the ground collapsed under the weight
of a drilling platform. The Soviet geologists had accidentally chosen it
as the site for their drilling works, an area where there was hiding a
huge underground cavern filled with natural gas, causing the collapse of
the vault.
Darvaza, Turkmenistan
Geologists, fearing the presence of
toxic gases decided to let the gas in the belief that the phenomenon
would last a few days. The hole has been burning since then and in the
darkest nights you can see the flames burn, from miles away.
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