There is a giant hole of fire located in Derweze in the middle of Karakum desert about 260 km north to the capital of Turkmenistan which is continuously burning for more than 40 years tell now. Due to this reason it is named as Door To Hell or Gate To Hell.
It was in 1971 when Soviet Engineers were setting up a drilling rig and operations to assess the quantity of oil present in this site. They found a natural gas pocket and soon after their finding a Crater was formed and all the drilling rig collapsed into the crater and got buried there.
In
order to prevent the release of dangerous poisonous gases from it, the
engineers thought to burn these gases. They set up the fire to that gases and
expected that the gas would burn out within weeks but it didn't happened
instead it continued to burn for more than 4 decades.
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