The town is the site of an underground coal mine fire that has been burning since 1962. The Centralia mine fire is an example of a "press disturbance"—a long-term, continuous, human-caused ...

Will Centralia's Fire Ever Burn Out? Extinguishing efforts didn't pay off. Between 1962 and 1982, assorted government ...

But, on 27 May 1962, Centralia changed. A fire spread from a surface mine to underground seams, and kept burning. (It's not known how the fire started, but "the most widely accepted" explanation ...

In what seems like the plot to a disaster movie, the quiet town of Centralia, Pennsylvania has endured a burning problem since 1962: It's been on fire, literally, for more than five decades.

MSU researchers also recorded soil temperature at sampling sites in their study of microbial communities near the Centralia mine fire. The temperature at this site reads 43.3 degrees Celsius ...

In what seems like the plot to disaster movie, the quiet town of Centralia, Pennsylvania has endured a burning problem since 1962: It's been on fire, literally, for the past 53 years. And how this ...