gas explosion is the ignition of a mixture of air and flammable gas, typically from a gas leak. In household accidents, the principal explosive gases...
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pipeline explosion occurred at 6:11 pm PDT on September 9, 2010, in San Bruno, California, when a 30-inch (76 cm) diameter steel natural gas pipeline...
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40°43′42″N 73°59′18″W / 40.728376°N 73.988245°W / 40.728376; -73.988245 A gas explosion occurred in the afternoon of March 26, 2015 in a building located at...
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000013°N 78.908148°W / 36.000013; -78.908148 On April 10, 2019, a gas explosion occurred near downtown Durham, North Carolina at the 115 block of North...
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haunted 10 years after deadly gas explosion". The Philadelphia Tribune. "Equine expert killed as horse shoe sparks explosion heard 30 miles away". The Daily...
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the generation of high temperatures and release of high-pressure gases. Explosions may also be generated by a slower expansion that would normally not...
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Hui Autonomous Region, China, after a gas explosion occurred on the eve of the Dragon Boat Festival. The explosion was the deadliest in China since 2019...
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The gas explosion on New Phetchaburi Road in Bangkok was a major disaster in Thailand. It took place on 24 September 1990, when a liquid petroleum gas tanker...
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The New London School explosion occurred on March 18, 1937, when a natural gas leak caused an explosion and destroyed the London School in New London...
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2018, excessive pressure in natural gas lines owned by Columbia Gas of Massachusetts caused a series of explosions and fires to occur in as many as 40...
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mine explosion occurred in Pingdingshan, in central China's Henan Province. The incident was described as a possible explosion of coal and gas and occurred...
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July 2014, a series of gas explosions occurred in the Cianjhen and Lingya districts of Kaohsiung, Taiwan, following reports of gas leaks earlier that night...
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underwater explosions and consequent gas leaks occurred on the Nord Stream 1 (NS1) and Nord Stream 2 (NS2) natural gas pipelines, two of 23 gas pipelines...
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review Whistleblower Gas Explosion Audit Findings from the 2009 Floral Park Queens gas explosion as part of their East Harlem Gas Explosion Investigation. The...
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the air and shook houses. The cause of the explosion has been determined to be a natural-gas fueled explosion and fire. The R.M. Palmer Company was originally...
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The Cleveland East Ohio Gas explosion occurred on the afternoon of Friday, October 20, 1944. The resulting gas leak, explosion and fires killed 131 people...
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1998 Esso Longford fire (redirect from 1998 Esso Longford gas explosion)
Y.: Marsh. p. 27. Retrieved 12 January 2024. "Industrial – Longford Gas Explosion". Australian Disaster Resilience Knowledge Hub. Archived from the original...
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A gas explosion caused by a large gas leak occurred in a residential area of Rosario, the third-largest city in Argentina, on August 6, 2013. A nearby...
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oxygenation (in the case of thermobaric weapons, gas leaks and BLEVEs). For this article, explosion means "the sudden conversion of potential energy (chemical...
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fuel gas to be undetected and cause a gas explosion. For this reason, odorizers are added to most fuel gases. The most common type of fuel gas in current...
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The 1995 Daegu gas explosions (Korean: 대구 상인동 가스 폭발 사고; lit. Daegu Sangin-dong gas explosion incident) occurred at the Daegu Metro Line 1 construction...
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On June 9, 2009, a natural gas explosion occurred at the ConAgra Foods plant in Garner, North Carolina, United States. After World War II, the Jesse Jones...
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a large-scale explosion at the site of a liquefied natural gas station located at Atomic Junction in Madina, Accra, Ghana. The explosion was not isolated...
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The Indiana State Fairgrounds Coliseum gas explosion took place in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States, on October 31, 1963; 81 people died and about...
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An intracolonic explosion or colonic gas explosion is an explosion inside the colon of a person due to ignition of explosive gases such as methane. This...
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2022, an explosion destroyed a block of flats in St Helier, Jersey in the Channel Islands. Ten people were killed in the suspected gas explosion, which...
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gas leak. According to a head of the Prague Fire Service, gas could be smelled in the area following in the blast, causing risk of further explosions...
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This is a list of tank truck explosions. The Los Alfaques disaster was a tank truck explosion that occurred near a holiday campsite on Tuesday 11 July...
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Consolidated Edison (redirect from New York Gas Light Company)
The day before Thanksgiving, an explosion critically burned Queens resident Kunta Oza when an 80-year-old cast iron gas main ruptured. Oza died on Thanksgiving...
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an explosion occurred on the Russian Urengoy–Pomary–Uzhhorod gas pipeline, which supplies gas from Siberia to Europe through Ukraine. The explosion occurred...
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