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The Centralia mine fire is a coal-seam fire that 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 date are still a matter of debate.
The Pittsburgh coal seam is the thickest and most extensive coal bed in the Appalachian Basin; [1] hence, it is the most economically important coal bed in the eastern United States. The Upper Pennsylvanian Pittsburgh coal bed of the Monongahela Group is extensive and continuous, extending over 11,000 mi 2 through 53 counties.
The major seams in the area include the Grassy seam, the New County seam, the Clark seam, the Dunmore Seam #1, the Dunmore Seam #2, and the Dunmore Seam #3. [3] The temperature of the coal in the Carbondale mine fire ranges from 50 °C (122 °F) to 290 °C (554 °F). [3] The carbon monoxide concentration of the Carbondale mine fire ranges from ...
State police now say the rescue effort for 64-year-old Elizabeth Pollard in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, has now shifted to a recovery effort.
Centralia (/ s ɛ n ˈ t r eɪ l i ə / sen-TRAY-li-ə) is a borough and near-ghost town in Columbia County, Pennsylvania, United States.It is part of Northeastern Pennsylvania.Its population declined from 1,000 in 1980 to five residents in 2020 [8] because a coal mine fire has been burning beneath the borough since 1962.
Elizabeth Pollard, a 64-year-old grandma, was found dead in an abandoned coal mine in Unity Township, Pennsylvania on Friday morning.
A coal fire in China Open-cast mining continues near a fire at Jharia coalfield in India. A coal-seam fire is a burning of an outcrop or underground coal seam. Most coal-seam fires exhibit smouldering combustion, [1] particularly underground coal-seam fires, because of limited atmospheric oxygen availability. Coal-seam fire instances on Earth ...
Some have even been burning for decades, including one notable coal mine fire in 1962 in Centralia, Pennsylvania, which cleared out the town due to the closure of the mine and toxic fumes being ...