Baba Gurgur
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Baba Gurgur is an oil field and gas flame near the city of Kirkuk, which was the first to be discovered in northern Iraq in 1927. It was considered the largest oil field in the world until the discove
The Eternal Fire at Baba Gurgur
Baba Gurgur “THE ETERNAL FIRE” set by North Oil Company
Kirkuk district, an oil gusher spouting
Centralia mine fire
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A coal-seam fire has been burning in the labyrinth of abandoned coal mines underneath the borough of Centralia, Pennsylvania, United States, since at least May 27, 1962. Its original cause and start d
Baba Gurgur
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A small part of the Centralia mine fire after being exposed during excavation in 1969
Steam rising through a fissure in the ground in the closed-off area of former Pennsylvania Route 61 in 2010. The melted snow shows areas where heat is escaping from the ground below.
A plume of steam wafts from the ground.
A DEP underground reading of 187 °F (86 °C)