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Property damage 200 nearby buildings damaged On January 24, 2020, a building at Watson Grinding and Manufacturing in northwest Houston , Texas , United States , exploded at 4:24 a.m. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Debris was scattered as far as one-half mile (0.8 km), [ 3 ] and approximately 200 nearby houses and businesses were damaged. [ 4 ]
Two Houston homeowners are seeking answers after a municipal water tank burst, flooding their homes. With insurance claims denied and the utility district citing government immunity, they may need ...
Seismograph reading from Hockley, Texas, 142 miles (229 km) south-east of West, clearly displaying the temblor caused by the explosion. Those living in and around West report that the blast felt like an earthquake. [39] The United States Geological Survey recorded the explosion as a 2.1-magnitude tremor.
The board convened in September of that year in Houston, in part because the Houston area had been home to large-scale disasters like the one in 1990. [22] Since then, the next biggest industrial disaster to occur in the Greater Houston area was the 2005 Texas City refinery explosion , [ 23 ] which killed 15 people and injured 180.
The explosion happened in Deer Park, a city about 18 miles east of Houston. According to reports from local news station ABC13 , the fire spread south under Spencer Highway into the borders of the ...
[8] [9] To fund the venture, the company sold assets in the Permian Basin and the Piceance Basin to Occidental Petroleum for $1.3 billion. [10] [11] In 2011, the company sold natural gas assets for $785 million, including a $600 million sale of assets in the Granite Wash to Linn Energy. [12] [13]
The Defense Department is sending additional assets to California to assist with the massive wildfire spreading across Los Angeles and the southern part of the state. Pentagon deputy press ...
The explosion was caused by corrosion so aggressive that it is challenging industry models for how quickly a small anomaly can grow. [7] On November 2, 2003, a Texas Eastern Transmission Pipeline natural gas pipeline exploded in Bath County, Kentucky, about 1.5 km south of a Duke Energy pumping station. A fire burned for about an hour before ...