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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
Illegally extracting, possessing, or safeguarding petrochemicals from pipelines, vehicles, equipment, or installations is a federal crime in Mexico and is punishable with up to 20 years in prison. [7] The gasoline thieves are known in Mexico as huachicoleros, [2] a name derived from the slang term huachicol, or poor-quality alcohol. [8]
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 ...
People in New Mexico at risk from devastating wildfires this week are now facing “extremely dangerous” flooding.. At least two people died in the South Fork and Salt Fires which have destroyed ...
Satellite imagery has captured “extremely dangerous” Category 5 Hurricane Otis as it makes landfall in Mexico on Wednesday. The hurricane has rapidly intensified over the last couple of hours ...
The first named storm of the hurricane season is threatening the Gulf Coast of Mexico and Texas with flooding and tropical-storm-force winds. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issues disaster declaration as ...
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]
Mexico’s Fund for Natural Disasters, known as Fonden, was set up in the late Nineties, taking a small portion of the federal budget in order to rapidly respond to natural disasters. It was ...