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The disaster occurred at the Plaza de Cobro San Marcos, a toll booth in the State of Mexico just east of the border with Mexico City on Mexican Federal Highway 150D. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] Investigation
At that time, it was Mexico's worst natural disaster in recent times. [23] Most of the destruction was in Colima and Jalisco. [24] A preliminary estimate of property damage was $280 million (1959 USD). [25] The storm sank three merchant ships, [26] and two other vessels. [27] On one ship, the Sinaloa, [28] 21 of 38 hands went down. [29]
Liquefied gas Horton tanks similar to the six spherical tanks involved in the San Juanico disaster LPG bullet tanks. There were 48 tanks of this type in the Pemex plant. Note how this modern installation incorporates some of the lessons learned from San Juanico: an uncongested, well ventilated area, with the horizontal tanks in a parallel cluster configuration, which minimizes the effects of ...
Mexico’s president dislikes police and would like to rely on the military for everything. He dissolved the old federal police, accusing them of corruption, and cut almost all federal funding for ...
Mexico’s president cut disaster fund two years before Hurricane Otis. Martha McHardy. October 27, 2023 at 12:03 PM ... Otis was the strongest ever storm to make landfall on Mexico’s west coast.
After all, in this part of Mexico so prone to natural disasters — where earthquakes can level apartment buildings in seconds — there's a certain pride that comes with living in proximity to ...
The Pasta de Conchos mine disaster occurred at approximately 2:30 a.m. CST on February 19, 2006, after a methane explosion within a coal mine near Nueva Rosita, San Juan de Sabinas Municipality, in the Mexican state of Coahuila. The mines were run by Grupo México, the largest mining company in the country. It was estimated that 65 miners, who ...
Mexico's secretary of foreign relations asked the U.S. government to remove the buoys and razor wire in a June letter. Fuentes sued over the buoys, arguing that border crossings are not covered by ...