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The Darvaza flaming crater -- burning since the 1950s

submitted by arvana

1 decade 6 years 8 months ago

In the 50's, the Soviets were prospecting for natural gas in Turkmenistan, and accidentally lit this 60m-diameter crater on fire. It's been burning ever since.

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fissionchips

via Neatorama

edit: Sorry, instead of via I should have said "see also".

Well, I wouldn't say via Neatorama, since Alex made that post a day after I submitted the video here. But their link to more photos is great: http://www.johnhbradley.com/pictures2.asp?var=070707darvaza

russian hell gate? kewl

this video is working its way up reddit as well. Number 12 at the moment.

http://www.reddit.com/info/6ogp0/comments/

*promote

Self promoting this video back to the front page; last published Wednesday, March 26th, 2008 4:44pm PDT - promote requested by original submitter arvana.

There's the cause of Global Warming!

I knew the Russians did it.

The real reason for the cold war, russians are flamers...ZING!

kronosposeidon

*fire *travel

Adding video to channels (Fire, Travel) - requested by kronosposeidon.

Drachen_Jager says...

"In the 50's, the Soviets were prospecting for natural gas in Turkmenistan, and accidentally lit this 60m-diameter crater on fire. It's been burning ever since."

1970s and lit on purpose to keep the gasses from killing everything around.

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