Talk:Darvaza gas crater

Artificial

Wow. Something in the lede needs to indicate that this is human-made in plainer language, because the "natural gas" thing fooled me all the way until I got to the history section.--Yannick (talk) 22:34, 13 December 2012 (UTC)

really 105.112.109.154 (talk) 18:56, 24 May 2021 (UTC)

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The Door to Hell is a natural gas field in Derweze, Turkmenistan, which has been burning since 1971 when it was ignited by Soviet scientists who expected it to burn out within days. They were trying to prevent the release of poisonous gases. The name "Door to Hell" was given to the field by locals. The hot spots range over an area with a width of 60 metres (200 ft) and to a depth of about 20 metres (66 ft).Photo: Tormod Sandtorv

Wording

Under the "field history" wouldn't it be "created" instead on of "discovery". Because it was made and set on fire, it didn't just randomly set on fire — Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.74.22.46 (talk) 15:20, 21 March 2014 (UTC)

"Discovery: 1971" clearly refers to the assertion "The site was identified by Soviet engineers in 1971" in the "History" section. --Florian Blaschke (talk) 19:51, 24 January 2015 (UTC)

"Poisonous gases"

The article currently says:

Fearing the further release of poisonous gases from the cavern, the engineers decided to burn it off.

Methane is dangerous because it's flammable, but it's not poisonous, and no other gases are mentioned. So what does this refer to? I've tagged it for clarification. The cited source is a Pakistan Daily Times article, but that link isn't working for me, so I can't see if it just says the same thing or makes it clearer. --65.94.51.64 (talk) 15:52, 2 October 2014 (UTC)

It's not uncommon to find small amounts of hydrogen sulfide in natural gas reservoirs; just a trace is very hazardous. Casey (talk) 21:34, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

"Storing the gas"?

Reading between the lines on this article, it sounds like an "ordinary" blowout of an exploratory well, which subsequently "cratered". I doubt if gas was being "stored". Casey (talk) 23:13, 13 October 2014 (UTC)

How well is the history known?

The article repeats the most common story about the origins, but I don't necessarily trust, e.g., the Daily Mail to get something like this right. There was a National Geographic expedition, and the only person to have actually gone down investigated the origins and seemed much less certain about the history: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/energy/2014/07/140716-door-to-hell-darvaza-crater-george-kourounis-expedition/

Does anyone have better information? --Dylan Thurston (talk) 15:12, 14 February 2016 (UTC)

Name

While this is informally known as the "door to hell" or "gate to hell", neither of these is a good name for this article: Darvaza gas crater is neutral, descriptive, and supported by external sources. -- The Anome (talk) 14:16, 28 January 2017 (UTC)

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50,000 tourists

The figure of 50,000 was added on 26 September 2015. As you can see, it was wedged in between the original first sentence and the ref, so it is unsourced, and could have just come from somebody's head (the source, dated 2014, doesn't give a figure for the number of visitors, but it does say that the whole of Turkmenistan only gets 12–15,000 visitors per year). A Google search for 50,000 visit door to hell gives a number of hits, but the number stays the same regardless whether the date is 2015 or 2018, meaning it is obviously taken from Wikipedia. I am taking that figure out until somebody can come up with a reliable (and up-to-date) figure. Scolaire (talk) 11:30, 25 March 2019 (UTC)

Temperature

Does anybody know how hot it gets in the bottom of the crater?

Ceplm (talk) 21:25, 13 January 2022 (UTC)

Media

A film: An interesting commentary TrangaBellam (talk) 16:02, 28 December 2022 (UTC)

And, a painting. TrangaBellam (talk) 17:05, 29 December 2022 (UTC)

Geology docs

• 1 TrangaBellam (talk) 17:07, 28 December 2022 (UTC)