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| Turkmenistan Hell's Door |
In the world of science not many know about the origins of Darvaza, but the story often appears set in 1971, when Turkmenistan is still part of the Soviet Union. He said in telling that geologists came to Karakum to find a gas mine, they managed to find a suitable location to mine, drilling. But as a result the location is based just above the gas bag causing the ground to collapse and all equipment buried.
As a result there was reaction from the stones of the sendiments and created several craters at once. Among them 60 meters in diameter with a depth of 30 meters. However, the new problem begins the crater is 69 meters in diameter is constantly issued methane gas. This gas is not rice, but disturbs the presence of oxygen so that living creatures in the area are difficult to breathe and die.
The researchers also acted with the incident, handling it by lighting a fire in the crater of Darvaza in order to eliminate the diarea gas within a few weeks. But the estimate was bolted, changed to no, year and now almost half a century since the incident. Until now the Darvaza gas crater is still on.
