The Darvaza gas crater emerged when a drilling rig hit a gas reservoir, collapsing the ground and releasing vast amounts of methane. Igniting the gas was meant to last weeks, but the flames ...

At the bottom of the crater, the walls and ground were vibrant orange—very much like hell. Kourounis didn’t risk his life for fun. He and National Geographic traveled to the Darvaza Gas Crater ...

In Turkmenistan there is an infernal place that is an atypical tourist attraction called the Darvaza Water Crater. It is a crater ... of the pockets of gas that this phenomenon hides in its ...

ASHGABAT, June 19. /TASS/. Specialists from the Turkmengas holding have drafted a plan to extinguish the Darvaza gas crater in the Karakum Desert, which has been on fire for more than fifty years ...