A mysterious sinkhole spewing fire and incredible heat has appeared in a Chinese hillside. Geologists and media have flocked to the desolate mountain on the outskirts of Urumqi, in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in north-western China, since it appeared a few weeks ago.
The heat blasting from the ‘ring of fire’ has been measured at 792C (1457F) from two metres away, reports People’s Daily Online, and is so intense that experts can’t get close enough to determine how deep the hole is.
