Articles for tag: Centralia Pennsylvania, Coal Seam Fires, Environmental Disasters, Hidden Earth Phenomena, Underground Fires

The Underground Fires That Burn for Decades in the U.S.

Suhail Ahmed

Smoke without flame. Streets that buckle in winter like rising bread. In Pennsylvania’s old coal belt, underground fires smolder so quietly that a passerby might miss them – until a whiff of sulfur or a patch of snow that melts in a perfect oval gives the secret away. These coal-seam fires, some older than many ...