Early Friday, bright orange flames boiled from the Gulf of Mexico off the Yucatan peninsula caused by a gas leak in an underwater pipeline. Resembling molten lava, the eruption of flames was dubbed an “eye of fire” on social media. The fire, near a Mexican state oil company Pemex drilling platform, burned for five hours before being fully extinguished.

The fire began in an underwater pipeline that connects to a platform at Pemex’s flagship Ku Maloob Zaap oil development, the company’s most important, four sources told Reuters.

Gas leak sparks “Eye of Fire” in Gulf of Mexico