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Fears over hundreds of giant 'gas bombs' which may explode and form craters

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Russia has identified up to 430 of the bulging moulds, leading to calls for urgent military-style action to spike them before any future blasts.

So far 17 large holes have formed since 2014 in the Yamal and Gydan peninsulas in Siberia due to vast methane eruptions in thawing permafrost.Professor Vasily Bogoyavlensky, of the Russian Oil and Gas Research Institute in Moscow, is now calling for immediate action.He warned many of the 430 craters lie close to key natural gas installations which are part of a network supplying western Europe.Some 7,185 mounds have been identified from satellite image analysis, with up to 6% of them being "really dangerous".He identified high risk sites near three gas fields on the Yamal peninsula – North-Tambey,.

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