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At about 3:45 pm local time, an explosion occurred in the basement of a parking garage adjacent to the main office building. [1] The blast caused the first two stories of the fourteen-floor Building B-2 to partially collapse. [1] The cause of the blast was a gas leak that was ignited by an electrical fault. [5]
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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 ...
Satellites recorded another large methane leak at an offshore platform belonging to Mexico's Pemex in August, according to exclusive data shared with Reuters, even as pressure mounts on the state ...
A natural gas line in a downtown church exploded, leaving the building extensively damaged and also closing evacuations and closures throughout Sundance Square. The church, Morning Chapel CME ...
A 911 call to local police reported the leak at 17:04 hours, and the explosion occurred at 19:10 hours. [22] When first informed of the leak, Pemex did not initially close the valve because they did not consider the leak "important". [23] It took four hours to extinguish the explosion's fire. [4] [17] Residents from the surrounding areas were ...
The historic street blocks that make up the French Quarter comprised the original town of New Orleans founded by the French in the early 1700s, and many of the buildings, known for their wrought ...
2010: Dalian Pipeline disaster – The explosion of two petroleum pipelines and subsequent fire in the port of Dalian, in northern China's Liaoning province on Saturday, on July 17, 2010, caused fatalities, damages and an ecological disaster, releasing 11,000 barrels of oil into the Yellow Sea, and covering up, according to different sources, from 50 to 430 km 2 of sea and coast lines.