Event

Karlino oil eruption

9 Dec 1980 · 54.06° N, 15.93° E

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When
9 Dec 1980
Kind
Event
Coordinates
54.06° N, 15.93° E

Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, Karlino oil eruption.

Summary

President Jimmy Carter announces that according to American intelligence, the Soviets completed their preparations for an intervention in Poland. On the same day, Karlino oil eruption,

Karlino oil eruption

Oil well eruption in Karlino, Poland

The Karlino oil eruption was an oil well blowout that took place on 9 December 1980, near Karlino, a town located in Pomerania in northern Poland, near the Baltic Sea coast. The eruption and the fire that followed it put an end to the hope of Poland becoming a "second Kuwait". It took more than a month for Polish, Soviet and Hungarian firefighters to completely extinguish the fire.

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