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How does the Gates of Hell in Turkmenistan keep burning? How come it just act like a volcano and just blow it's top or something? Or run out of energy?
1mon 13d ago by lemmy.world/u/Patnou in askscience
It's sitting on top of a natural gas field. Gas in the crater is burning up all the oxygen, so the gas underground can't explode (think of a lighter). It will eventually run out of gas.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darvaza_gas_crater
Pretty good overview in the Wikipedia article. I'd just start there.