Guess what this is called?

[james_davis_nicoll]

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[alexseanchai]

Gateway to hell?

(Probably actually a wildfire, but it looks like a gateway to hell.)

[kuangning]

At a guess? "Trouble."

[brownbetty]

If it's not something on the theme of 'Inferno', I will have badly misjudged human nature.

[sasha_feather]

A caldera?

[sraun]

If memory serves me correctly, Gateway to Hell. It is that hole in the ground in Russia that's been burning for ~40 years now, right?

[mindstalk.livejournal.com]

It's called "big enough to deserve an LJ-cut and a 'huge picture' warning"?

Dimensions: 5,616px × 3,744px (scaled to 994px × 663px)

[dhole.livejournal.com]

Fire?

[msagara.livejournal.com]

The picture, before you put it behind the cut, didn’t come out huge on my friends list, fwiw.

[mindstalk.livejournal.com]

The displayed size was small, but the browser was still downloading a huge picture.

[msagara.livejournal.com]

The displayed size was small, but the browser was still downloading a huge picture.

You are totally right. I didn’t notice the file size because I often find LJ loads slowly, and the image was not one that over-ran all margins and ate screen.

[http://users.livejournal.com/krin_o_o_/]

An endless "loading please wait" gif?

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

I know what it is - the big fire pit in Russia that has been burning for many years - but a smaller or more compressed image might have been a good idea.

[keithmm.livejournal.com]

Darvaza, in Turmenistan, actually.

It's also _Frickin' Awesome_

[(Anonymous)]

I visited the site in 2006, and it's absolutely stupendous. A tremendous waste of natural gas, but an unforgettable experience to visit. At night, flocks of birds circle around hunting the flying insects attracted by the light, and from a distance they seem to blink in and out of existence like formations of UFOs.

[voidampersand.livejournal.com]

19,880,809 bytes, deeper hole.

[tiger-spot.livejournal.com]

Ooh, pretty.

[martianmooncrab.livejournal.com]

Fire Balrog Nest?

[seawasp]

The Door to Hell. I posted a pic of that a while back; apparently they're trying to close it now.

Pretty damn impressive; first time I saw it I thought it was a volcano.

[the-nita.livejournal.com]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derweze

[lpetrazickis.livejournal.com]

James' vacation in Hawaii?

[martinl-00.livejournal.com]

Fort McMurray?

[agoodwinsmith.livejournal.com]

+1

[derekl1963.livejournal.com]

A very overprocessed picture?

[beamjockey.livejournal.com]

major_clanger visited this hole in 2010. His photos are most impressive.