Vibrations at blowout site, blaze still strong

Residents of the area in Assam’s Baghjan where a gas well blew out two weeks ago and where a fire has been raging since Tuesday have now complained of “scary vibrations every two hours since Wednesday night”.

The “scary vibrations” have damaged the walls of a few houses and fanned fears of more danger in store.

“The vibration increases as the intensity of the well fire increases. This morning it lasted for over an hour. As the fire’s intensity decreased, there was no vibration. I woke up at 5am but could not sleep because it was really shaking. It was scary,” said Hemanta Moran, a resident of Baghjan in Upper Assam’s Tinsukia district, about 530km east of Guwahati.