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The facility and the settlement, part of Greater Mexico City, were devastated, with 500–600 victims killed, and 5000–7000 suffering severe burns. [2] It is one of the deadliest industrial disasters in world history, [ 1 ] and the deadliest industrial accident involving fires and/or explosions from hazardous materials in a process or storage ...
On November 19th, 1984, a series of BLEVE's at a Pemex LPG storage facility occur in the heavily populated outskirts of San Juan Ixhuatepec, near Mexico City, resulting in the deaths of around 500-600 residents and up to 7000 injured by the explosions, ensuing fire and shrapnel from exploding tanks. It is considered among the deadliest ...
Mexico at the 1984 Winter Olympics. Mexico at the 1984 Summer Olympics. Mexico at the 1984 Summer Paralympics. The Indios de Ciudad Juárez cease to exist. The Pioneros de Cancún are founded. The Ángeles de Puebla are founded.
On 19 November 1984, a massive series of explosions occurred at a liquid petroleum gas (LPG) tank farm in the town of San Juan Ixhuatepec (outside of Mexico City, Mexico). [25] The disaster was initiated by a gas leak on the site, likely caused by a pipe rupture during transfer operations, which caused a plume of LPG to concentrate at ground ...
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Mexico City fireworks disaster: Mexico City: Mexico: 62+ deaths, up to 83 injuries: Market 22 March 1989: Fengate fireworks factory explosion: Peterborough: United Kingdom: 1 firefighter death, over 100 injuries: Factory [6] 14 February 1991: Culemborg fireworks disaster: Culemborg and Vianen: Netherlands: 2 deaths, dozens of injuries [7 ...
The rod was sent to Germany for further analysis, after which it was likely to be recycled. [55] December 2013 – A truck transporting a 111 TBq (3.0 kCi) cobalt-60 teletherapy source from a Tijuana hospital to a waste storage facility was hijacked near Mexico City. [56] [57] This triggered a nationwide search by Mexican authorities.
The 1985 Mexico City earthquake struck in the early morning of 19 September at 07:17:50 (CST) with a moment magnitude of 8.0 and a maximal Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). The event caused serious damage to the Greater Mexico City area and the deaths of at least 5,000 people. The sequence of events included a foreshock of magnitude 5.2 that ...