The Caspian Sea Exploded Into a Towering Inferno, And The Cause Was Entirely Natural
HARRY BAKER, LIVESCIENCE
7 JULY 2021
A towering inferno, hundreds of feet tall, burned above the Caspian Sea on Sunday (July 4) after a massive explosion in Azerbaijan s oil and gas fields. The culprit? A mud volcano, authorities now say.
The blast occurred around 9:30 pm local time (1:30 pm ET, 5:30 pm UTC) around 6 miles (10 kilometers) from the Umid gas field, which is 45 miles (75 km) off the coast of Azerbaijan s capital Baku, and it continued to burn into Monday morning, according to the BBC.
Local authorities initially suspected an accident at one of the multiple oil and gas rigs in the area, but the state oil company SOCAR later announced that preliminary investigations had deemed the cause of the explosion to be a mud volcano, and that none of its platforms had been damaged, according to
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