Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Derweze – the Door to Hell

Location: Turkmenistan
While drilling for gas near Derweze in 1971, a team of geologists in Turkmenistan accidentally collapsed an underground natural gas cavern. Rather than have the poisonous gas escape and kill the local semi-nomadic Teke people, the team lit it on fire.
It’s been burning ever since

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