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Commonly known as the Door to Hell or the Gas Crater of Darvaza, this amazing geological wonder is a 60 meters wide and 20 meters deep giant hole of fire in the heart of the hot Karakum Desert of the village Derweze (or Darvaza which means door) in Turkmenistan ( nation at the borders of Iran and Afghanistan).
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It was accidently made more than 42 years ago when the Soviet scientists in the late sixties discovered a rich deposit of gas reserve near the town of Derweze in the Karakum Desert and started drilling quickly. But the drilling equipment collapsed and created a crater from which large amount of methane (a dangerous greenhouse gas) released that posed threat to environment and the health of the villagers.
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To prevent escape of poisonous gas into the atmosphere, the scientists decided to light it on fire as they estimated the volume of gas to be such that the fire would use it all in just few days. But as it turned out, their estimate was wrong and this hole in the ground has a never ending supply of burning gas and it’s been burning ever since.
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