Underground coal fires
Incidence
In Indonesia in 1997, there were still peat fires burning in the earth from the El Niño events of 1983. Rain does not extinguish deep peat or coal fires. They smoulder, like self-combustion, underground indefinitely.
In Indonesia in 1997, there were still peat fires burning in the earth from the El Niño events of 1983. Rain does not extinguish deep peat or coal fires. They smoulder, like self-combustion, underground indefinitely.