"" Gate of Hell "": human error created a fireplace that burns at more than 400 degrees 50 years ago; see photos. "" Political connection

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"" Gate of Hell "": human error created a fireplace that burns at more than 400 degrees 50 years ago; see photos. "" Political connection

Photo: Archive/Reproduced In the 1970s, during the exploration of gas and oil in the province of Soguz, then Soviet Union, workers drilled into the soil, creating inadvertently a crater 70 meters wide and 20 meters deep. This formation, known as Darvaza, became an eternal flame after the burning of methane gas, resulting in a scene that reminds us of the entrance of hell itself, according to Christian iconography. Since then, the Gate of Hell ha…