Turkmenistan have called the "gates of hell" where people sounds creepy. In fact, the "gates of hell 'did not imagine that the origin of fantasy, or even quite ordinary in 1971, a geological exploration team occasionally penetrating a rock and found a wealth of natural gas due to improper use of drilling equipment, making the ground collapse, forming a pit 76 meters in diameter.
As the main component of liquefied natural gas, methane, non-toxic to humans, but also lead to excessive concentration of risk. To prevent the spread of these gases, geologists decided to discharge a fire will destroy them. Obviously, the fire had they expect this will extinguish in a few days, but 40 years, stretching to the fire is still burning ... U Thant ...
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