Derweze, also known as the door to hell, is a 70 meter wide hole in the middle of the Karakum desert in Turkmenistan. The hole was formed in 1971 when a team of soviet geologists had their drilling rig collapse when they hit a cavern filled with natural gas. In an attempt to avoid poisonous discharge, they decided to burn it off, thinking that the gas would be depleted in only a few days. Derweze is still burning today
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4 comments:
That is just wild! I think they underestimated burnoff time by a few decades.
Soviet science fails again. What a shock!
Wiener roast! Bring some marshmallows too!
Something like that happened in the States only it was a coal mine and it destroyed a town then a county.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centralia,_Pennsylvania
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