It's much more powerful than waterfalls on land, with a downward flow of more than 123 million cubic feet per second, which creates what scientists describe as " massive turbulence."
While one Chinese government-owned oil company actually put the figure closer to 125 billion barrels of oil and 500 trillion cubic feet of natural gas in undiscovered areas.
The huge machine had been built for a company in India. There they were waiting for it to blow its thirty thousand cubic feet of air per minute through their blast furnaces.
Some 300,000 cubic metres (10.6 million cubic feet) of lava have poured out of the ground so far, according to experts, although the eruption is considered relatively small and controlled.