Simultaneous Eruption

Simultaneous Eruption
posted by zogger on 2005.12.15 14:44
-->mercedo writes "In Kingfisher, Oklahoma, a number of eruption of geysers appeared abruptly these few days.
Strikingly similar incident occurred in a different place but similar latitude here in Japan almost simultaneously. A City of Oita, located near the internationally famous hotspring paradise Beppu, and since this July the hotspring boring has been conducted in the field of Nakasone Hospital with the hope of finding a good hotspring to make money essentially. But instead of finding a hotspring, they just find a natural gas leakeage and the fire in sequence.
"At 8:30 a.m. on the 12th of December, as was usual the workers started operating the boring machine, though the direct causes were not so sure a fire started at the site by igniting the natural gas methane that abruptly erupted from a gap of the diametre 54 mm pipeline that dug into 370 m under the ground within a diametre 80 mm pipeline that dug into 800 m under the ground. At the beginning of the prior small explosions, they had 5-6 metre high fire columns. After 9 hours the fire was put down but the leakeage of methane and vapour had been there. Before 4 o'clock p.m. on the 14th of December, gas leakeage was put down by injecting mud water into the smaller pipeline, it took about 55 hours after the fire.
I watched the scene in the local news, it was like a burnt small oil rig or well, shaft. I was unable to find a photo, though here is the link in Japanese. Probably you can only confirm the figures I mentioned above."