Explosions on the rise

[Kojima]

----------------------------------------------

An oil field exploded in Basra Iraq [Iraq Oil Report ; Published September 20, 2011]; Comment by Starr DiGiacomo

----------------------------------------------

List of comment about gas explosion, in order of posted time; as of 2011-09-01

 

1) SOMERVILLE, Ohio, US; "Investigation continues in house collapse"

2) BAKERSFIELD, Calif. US; "Bakersfield resident hurt in natural gas explosion"

3) Pompton Lakes, NJ, US; "Update: Suspected gas explosion levels home in Pompton Lakes [raw video]"

4) Brantford, Ontario, Canada; "Natural gas explosion levelled Brantford house: fire marshal"

5) Warren, MI, US; "City of Warren Home Explosion Underscores Need for Natural Gas Safety"

6) Castleford, West Yorkshire, UK; "Dramatic footage shows huge gas explosion at Yorkshire home"

7) Warren Park, Harare, Zimbabwe; "2 seriously injured in Warren Park gas explosion"

8) Logan City, south of Brisbane in Queensland, Australia; "Seven children killed in gas explosion at house"

9) Herscher, IL, US; Douglasville, GA, US; "This Week In Natural Gas Leaks and Explosions – Aug. 22, 2011"

10) "Seven children killed in gas explosion at house" [See 8)]

11) Lakeview, MI, US; "Explosion inside Lakeview house causes fire, couple escapes with minor injuries"

12) Newborough, Victoria, Australia; "Gas blast destroys Newborough garage"

13) Cato, Montcalm, MI, US; "Couple escapes house explosion"

14) Glenrock, Converse, WY, US; "Oilfield explosion claims three"

15) St. Augustine, Fla, US; "Gas Station Explosion Site in St. Augustine now 'Stable'"

 

----------------------------------------------

* Comment by Starr DiGiacomo

We'll be seeing an uptick in unusual home and business gas explosions and I'm trying to locate specific ZT on the matter.  Below is a refresher for the many gas related news articles.

http://zetatalk5.com/index/blog0214.htm

SOZT

Fault lines, when adjusting, do not just rip apart one day during a dramatic earthquake. They most often creep. Laying gas lines along or across a fault line is asking for an accident of this sort. Fault lines are also seldom so clearly delineated that one can go a mile in this or that direction and avoid their action. Where a slip-slide fault such as the San Andreas will often leave a clear line on the surface, this is only the surface action, not what occurs in the rock layers on either side which can fracture for a long way to either side during any movement. The gas company, or the age of the pipes, will be faulted but in truth the finger should be pointed in many directions. The public, who insist on living at such a scenic spot, is to blame. Officials, who zoned for housing are to blame. The public utility company, for allowing gas lines in the area, is to blame. But this will change nothing, while man continues to live on the San Andreas, even as it awakens. EOZT

http://www.zetatalk5.com/ning/18sp2010.htm

SOZT

The danger from radon gas will not be increased as a result of the pole shift. Radon gas is emitted by rock containing uranium, which is degrading. In normal circumstances, where air can circulate, it is disbursed rapidly as is any methane created by decay of organic material. The danger from these gasses comes from confinement - being trapped in a mine, a basement, or beneath the permafrost. The dangers are well known. For methane, it is explosions. An accumulation of methane gas can be identified by the smell of rotten eggs, or as some have described it, dirty socks or cabbage soup. For radon gas the danger is lung cancer, from the continual exposure to the radioactive air. Radon gas is odorless, and cannot be detected except by specialized equipment not in the hands of the average person.

In that the pole shift, or the Earth changes preceding the pole shift, can fracture rock and release pockets of either gas, survivors should be cautious about huddling in bunkers. You are safer out in the open air, or in a trench you have dug that will allow the pole shift winds to pass over you, but nothing to fall on and crush you. The fact that both methane gas and radon gas can accumulate in the bunkers of the elite is one of the reasons we have stated that they have dug their own graves. EOZT

http://www.zetatalk5.com/ning/12mr2011.htm

 

* Comment by Starr DiGiacomo

SOZT

Anyone watching the news, for instance the news on the San Bruno explosion in a distribution line close to the San Andreas Fault line, knows that gas in any form is a danger. Oil and gas refineries explode when rigid piping cracks. Oil or gas wells explode when the ground around them moves. And the gas distribution lines running under cities are no exception. They likewise will explode. Gas lines, whether along the street or within a home, are rigid. In some cases automatic shutoff valves can limit the amount of gas available for an explosion by sensing a drop in pressure, but this is always after the fact. The explosion has already occurred. Utilizing gas on a planet prone to earthquakes was a mistake to begin with, but man never thinks of the consequences when striving for modern conveniences. We have advised turning off the gas at the street, though when the street explodes and your neighbor's homes are on fire you are not likely to escape the holocaust. A better alternative is to live in an area where gas is not available, as in your rural safe location where you will be doing a form of camping while gardening. A campfire at night, for cooking and washing and a bit of friendly light before bed. Nothing explosive. EOZT

http://www.zetatalk5.com/ning/02oc2010.htm

 

* Comment by Starr DiGiacomo

SOZT Answer: It is no accident that the New Madrid fault lies under the Mississippi River near Memphis, as rivers form in lowlands created when land pulls apart, separating the rock fingers and weakening support for the land. Thus, the Ohio River bed also is an indication of where rock fingers will pull apart. Two adjustments in Kentucky, a day apart, are not an accident, but an indication of the speed at which the stretch zone is starting to adjust. Rail lines are frequently an early harbinger of such adjustments, as they run long distances, whereas structures within cities, such as tall buildings, take up relatively little space and have a small footprint. Our warning that imploding cities will be experienced, before the hour of the shift, are in this regard. Be warmed, it will not just be your rail lines and gas and water mains that will shatter and be pulled apart during the stretch. The foundations of your tall buildings will likewise be vulnerable.EOZT

http://www.zetatalk5.com/newsletr/issue008.htm

----------------------------------------------

[Original post on January 20, 2011]

Original title: Gas explosion kills 1, injures 5 in Philadelphia

 

http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/01/19/pennsylvania.gas.explosion/index.h...

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

• The explosion occurred in Philadelphia's Tacony neighborhood
• The blast killed one utilities worker and injured five other people
• Some of the injuries are serious

(CNN) -- A gas main explosion in Philadelphia Tuesday evening killed one utilities worker and injured five other people, a fire department official said.

Philadelphia Gas Works employees were responding to a gas main break in the city's Tacony neighborhood when the explosion occurred, fire department spokesman Jim Smith said.

"They were trying to control it and found a source of ignition," according to Smith, who said four PGW employees and a firefighter were among the injured. He said some of the gas workers' injuries were serious.

http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/video/natural-gas-explosion-philadelphia-...

http://abcnews.go.com/US/video/caught-on-tape-gas-main-explodes-126...

[Starr DiGiacomo]

https://www.toledoblade.com/Energy/2017/02/18/Explosion-fire-report...

Explosion, fire reported at oil refinery near Los Angeles

Published on Feb. 18, 2017 | Updated 7:12 p. m.

TORRANCE, Calif. — An explosion and fire erupted Saturday at a California oil refinery, exactly two years after a blast that crippled the plant and led to higher gasoline prices, authorities said.

No injuries were reported from the Torrance Refining Co. near Los Angeles, and there were no evacuations or damage to any buildings outside the refinery, Assistant Fire Chief Steve Treskes said.

A smokestack flare burns off flammable product after an explosion in a processing facility at the ExxonMobil refinery in Torrance, Calif.

ASSOCIATED PRESS Enlarge

Three dozen firefighters using heavy streams of water battled flames that rose 40 feet in the air, and the fire was knocked down in about 30 minutes, Treskes said.

“All safety systems at the refinery operated properly, and all personnel are safe and accounted for,” Betsy Brien, a spokeswoman for the refinery owner, New Jersey-based PBF Energy Inc., said in a statement.

There was no immediate word on damage or the cause of the blast.

However, most of the refinery continued to operate, Brien said.

The blast came on the anniversary of a Feb. 18, 2015, explosion that slightly injured four contractors, destroyed a large part of the refinery, rocked the neighboring community 20 miles southwest of Los Angeles and sent a fine white ash raining down on nearby homes and cars.

Later in the day, about 400 people gathered at the refinery in a previously planned protest to mark the anniversary and demand a ban on the use of a highly toxic and volatile chemical, modified hydrofluoric acid, the Long Beach Press-Telegram reported (http://bit.ly/2lwBWri ).

The 2015 explosion involved a pollution-control device called a precipitator. Federal regulators later concluded that the explosion could have been prevented if managers had taken into account aging safety equipment and shut down a key, spark-generating part of the refinery before attempting repairs elsewhere.

The blast tossed an 80,000-pound piece of equipment within feet of another unit where tens of thousands of pounds of modified hydrofluoric acid were stored in tanks.

The U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board concluded that there was a potential to release a toxic cloud and cause “serious injury or death to many community members.”

California regulators also fined ExxonMobil — then-owner of the refinery — more than $500,000 for safety violations.

Most of the refinery was shut down for more than a year, leading to a shortage of gas that meets California’s stricter pollution regulations and higher prices at the pump.

Two other incidents were reported in the fall of 2015. One involved a leak of modified hydrofluoric acid and the other a leak in a pressurized pipe that created a large steam cloud. No injuries were reported.

The refinery sits on 750 acres and produces 1.8 billion gallons of gasoline a year, which accounts for about 8.3 percent of the state’s total refining capacity.

[Starr DiGiacomo]

http://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/kwazulu-natal/six-dead-in-ga...

Six dead in gas explosion at Durban harbour

Kwazulu Natal / 17 February 2017, 2:07pm

A gas explosion at Durban harbour has claimed the lives of six men.

* This story has been updated.

Durban – Six men have died and 26 were injured in a freak gas leak in a sewer pit at the naval base in Durban harbour on Friday morning.

Paramedics arrived as rescue teams retrieved the bodies of six men from the sewer pit. Paramedics assessed all six men and declared them dead on the scene.

Twenty six others were treated and taken to various hospitals for gas inhilation injuries Of those who died in the "freak accident", three are army officials and three are civilians.

Brigadier-General Mafi Mgobozi said the three South African Defence Force members who died were trying to rescue three contract workers screaming for help at the bottom of a sewage pit after a gas leak. He said workers from the Department of Public Works were working in the sewage pit at the base. 

Read the full statement from the SANDF here

Mgobozi said the soldiers who heard the cries went into the pit to help but they were overcome by the fumes.

"The contract workers were working underground when they started encountering breathing problems. It has now been established that the members succumbed to a methane gas leak in the pit.

"The three uniform members rushed to the pit to try and assist but also succumbed to the harmful gas." 

He said the Military Police and SAPS would investigate.

[Starr DiGiacomo]

http://www.krem.com/news/local/grant-county/thousands-without-power...

Thousands lose power in Grant Co. due to substation 'explosion

EPHRATA, Wash. – About 10,000 people were without power in the Grant County area after a reported explosion at Grant County PUD substation.

People in Soap Lake, Quincy and Ephrata were all impacted by the outage. At around 8:00 p.m. Grant County PUD said customers in Quincy and Soap Lake have had their power restored. Crews are still working to restore power to Ephrata. There's no estimation on when power will be restored to Ephrata, though officials did estimate it would take "several hours."

PUD officials said the reported explosion was an arc flash, meaning that there was a fault in the power line. It caused an explosion of light and sparks and multiple fires in the substation yard in Downtown Ephrata at Nat Washington and A Street. They said it last for about 45 seconds and they believe it was due to the weather.

Later, PUD officials said the explosion was caused by equipment failure at one of the substations, specifically the transformer, but they were not sure what caused the equipment failure.

Crews are on scene working to restore power and put out the fires. No injuries were reported. 

[Starr DiGiacomo]

http://abc13.com/news/massive-explosion-lights-up-the-skies-over-re...

Massive explosion lights up the skies over Refugio

Wednesday, February 15, 2017 06:08AM

REFUGIO COUNTY, TX (KTRK) --

Officials tell ABC13 that the blast in Refugio, about 45 minutes southwest of Houston, has been extinguished and was a result of a natural gas pipeline explosion.

The Office of Emergency Management said crews were doing work on the property owned by the Kinder Morgan plant. Officials say there are no injuries, but the fire could be seen at distances of 30 miles or more.

Dispatchers told ABC13 that every member of the county sheriff's office was at the scene of the blast.

Resident Jake Ramirez posted video to Facebook showing the massive blaze illuminating the clouds above.

"It looks wild, it's pulsating," Ramirez says in his video. "Not really sure what that is...it looks beautiful, but it looks like a [expletive] fire."

Images sent in by a cousin of ABC13 producer John Carreon show the fire at a distance of about 30 miles away, showing the intensity and size of the explosion.

[Starr DiGiacomo]

https://sg.news.yahoo.com/oxford-gas-explosion-block-flats-20350884...

Oxford gas explosion: several people unaccounted for after huge blast at block of flats

The telegraph February 14 2017

Oxford gas explosion: several people unaccounted for after huge blast at block of flats

Charlotte Krol

The Telegraph14 February 2017

http://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/homerun/the_telegraph_818/7bf0bb24bdbc8022f79f796f535d42a7"/>

View photos

Several people remain unaccounted for after an explosion and fire at a block of flats.

At least two people were injured when the blast ripped through the building in Oxford, causing it to collapse.

It is not known what caused the incident in the west of the city on Tuesday afternoon.

Oxfordshire County Council said around 40 firefighters joined the rescue operation, with the help of urban search and rescue teams from Buckinghamshire and Milton Keynes.

http://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/homerun/the_telegraph_818/21c87018439d6b938eb045b6b9755ac9"/>View

Oxford gas explosion: several people unaccounted for after huge blast at block of flats

Charlotte Krol

The Telegraph14 February 2017

http://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/homerun/the_telegraph_818/7bf0bb24bdbc8022f79f796f535d42a7"/>

View photos

Several people remain unaccounted for after an explosion and fire at a block of flats.

At least two people were injured when the blast ripped through the building in Oxford, causing it to collapse.

It is not known what caused the incident in the west of the city on Tuesday afternoon.

Oxfordshire County Council said around 40 firefighters joined the rescue operation, with the help of urban search and rescue teams from Buckinghamshire and Milton Keynes.

http://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/homerun/the_telegraph_818/21c87018439d6b938eb045b6b9755ac9"/>

View photos

Video taken by Luke Sproule shows the aftermath of the explosion - Credit: Twitter / Luke Sproule 

A spokesman said: "The emergency services were contacted at 4.45pm following reports of an explosion, a fire and the collapse of a property.

"Two people have been treated for minor injuries and one was taken to the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford.

"A small number of people are unaccounted for in this ongoing investigation."

A number of surrounding buildings were evacuated and members of the public were advised to avoid the area.

South Central Ambulance Service said a male was treated at the scene for smoke inhalation and a female has been taken to hospital for treatment for minor injuries.

Emergency services were called to the Osney Lane and Gibbs Crescent area at 4.45pm on Tuesday, Thames Valley Police said.

Thames Valley Police Chief Inspector Marc Tarbit, deputy local police area commander for Oxford, said: "Our officers are currently on the scene working closely with our colleagues from the other emergency services.

"We are continuing to ask members of the public to please avoid the area to allow the emergency services to work at the scene.

"I also appreciate incidents of this nature cause disruption to the community so I would like to thank people locally for their patience and understanding while we are working to respond to the incident."

[Starr DiGiacomo]

http://nation.com.pk/national/15-Feb-2017/gas-pipeline-blast-kills-...

Gas pipeline blast kills six in Bahawalnagar

February 15, 2017

Sohail Khan/Atif Khakwani-BAHAWALNAGAR-Six persons including a woman along with her two daughters and a son were killed and 11 others sustained injuries after Sui gas pipeline exploded with a bag due to leakage here on Tuesday.
The police said that the explosion occurred in a house situated on Circular Road here in Bahawalnagar city.
The two-storey house razed to ground to the blast while the two adjacent houses damaged severely, the police and rescuers said.
According to police and Rescue 1122, a gas pipeline exploded due to leakage on ground floor of a house owned by Wazir Ahmed, a court clerk. As a result, six persons including his wife Muneerah Bibi, 20, her five-year-old daughter Benish, son 12-year-old Zaheer Ahmed, another daughter Goshi, 4; Attia, daughter of Abdul Ghaffar and Bashir Ahmed died while eleven others sustained injuries. The explosion was so loud that the adjacent buildings were also affected adversely. The rescue teams rushed to the spot and started rescue work. Rescue 1122, Army officials and volunteers of Falah-e-Insaniate Foundation pulled out the injured and dead bodies and shifted to District Headquarters Hospital Bahawalnagar. Later, four the injured persons were referred to Bahawalpur and Lahore due to critical condition. The hospital sources fear the death toll could rise. The police said that real cause of the incident is yet to be ascertained.
The rescue said the incident occurred due gas leakage in the ground floor of a two-storey residential building which was razed to the ground while the two adjacent buildings also damage severely. The blast took place around 2:20pm.
DC Azhar Hayat, DPO Liaqat Ali Malik, ADC Rana Amjad, DO Civil Defence Mirza Siddique and staff of other agencies also rushed to the scene immediately after the blast. The rescue crane, excavator and tractors reached the scene a little late, which angered the residents.
Sensing urgency of the situation, DC Azhar Hayat called in Pakistan army personnel who rushed to the spot in no time. The army personnel along with Rescue 1122 rescuers and volunteers completed the operation.

[Starr DiGiacomo]

https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2017/02/13/world/asia/ap-as-china-...

8 Dead, 3 Missing After Central China Coal Mine Blast

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESSFEB. 13, 2017, 11:00 P.M. E.S.T.

BEIJING — A coal mine explosion Tuesday in central China has left eight people dead and three injured, state media reported.

The blast occurred at about 1:30 a.m. at the Zoubao mine in Hunan province. Eighteen people escaped, only one of them injured, according to the official Xinhua News Agency and a Tuesday statement from China's national safety regulator, the State Administration of Work Safety.

The administration did not immediately identify the cause of the blast, but said the site was considered a "high gas mine." Gas explosions inside mines are often caused when a flame or electrical spark ignites gas leaking from the coal seam. Ventilation systems are supposed to prevent gas from becoming trapped.

China is the world's largest producer and consumer of coal. Its mining industry has long been one of the world's deadliest, with hundreds of deaths annually. The work safety administration has acknowledged that

struggling coal mines might be likely to overlook basic maintenance.

Authorities have announced shutdowns of outdated mines and cuts in the number of work days to improve safety conditions and reduce the smog smothering many Chinese cities. However, the measures also threaten to increase energy prices in the midst of an ongoing economic slowdown, taxing the willingness of authorities to enforce them strictly.

[Starr DiGiacomo]

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/business/article131862239.html

FEBRUARY 10, 2017 12:06 AM

Official: 1 missing, 2 injured in Louisiana pipeline blaze

Vehicles and a power pole smoke next to a fire at the Phillips 66 pipeline in Paradis, La. Thursday, Feb. 9, 2017. Authorities don't yet know what caused the fire on the pipeline in Paradis, but several workers was cleaning it at the time, St. Charles Parish Sheriff Greg Champagne said at a news conference

The Associated Press

PARADIS, LA. 

One worker was missing and two were injured after an explosion sparked a fire at a Louisiana pipeline Thursday night, officials said.

Authorities don't yet know what caused the fire on the Phillips 66 pipeline in Paradis, but a crew of six workers was cleaning it at the time, St. Charles Parish Sheriff Greg Champagne said at a news conference.

Two of the workers were hospitalized — one taken to a burn center— and three had minor or no injuries, the sheriff said. The remaining worker was unaccounted for, and a helicopter was being brought in to help search for him.

Champagne said the source of the 20-inch pipeline had been shut off but the fire would have to burn off the rest of the liquid inside, which could take hours or even days.

"They tell us the best thing that can happen right now is for the product to burn off," he said.

The pipeline was carrying a highly volatile byproduct of natural gas, which was burning cleanly and very hotly over a 30- to 40-foot area, the sheriff said.

"It's just a big blow torch," he said.

Sixty homes were evacuated and highways were being diverted around the area in Paradis, which is about 30 miles west of New Orleans.

[jorge namour]

Fire at the Flamanville plant: nuclear risk rejected
FRANCE
09/02/2017
An explosion occurred Thursday morning at 10 am on the nuclear site of Flamanville, in the English Channel. The prefecture, which announced the "end" of the incident, reports five people slightly intoxicated.
An explosion took place Thursday morning, shortly before 10 am, at the Flamanville nuclear power plant in the engine room, but "out of the nuclear zone,"
ccording to the prefecture which ensured "the absence of any nuclear risk ". No serious injuries are to be deplored and the terrorist track is rejected. The prefect announced the "end" of the incident at 12 noon.
https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=fr&tl=en&js=y&...
PHOTO FROM THE LINK:
http://www.meteoweb.eu/2017/02/flamanville-lesperto-non-e-stato-un-...

"It is a significant technical event but it is not a nuclear accident" because the explosion occurred "outside the nuclear zone

Five slightly intoxicated

"Five people were slightly intoxicated but they are not injured," said Olivier Marmion. The production of reactor 1, which has two in the plant, has therefore been stopped, according to the prefecture.
MAP:

[Starr DiGiacomo]

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/gas-explosion-kills-w...

Gas Explosion Kills 5 Workers, Injures 9 in Southern Iran

• By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

TEHRAN, Iran — Feb 9, 2017, 8:11 AM ET

Iran's official news agency is reporting that a gas explosion at an agricultural research site in southern Iran has left five workers dead and nine injured.

The Thursday report by IRNA said an electrical short circuit in an underground site led to the explosion a day earlier.

The incident happened near the port city of Bandar Abbas, some 1,200 kilometers (745 miles) south of the capital, Tehran.

The report did not elaborate, but the disregarding of safety measures is the main cause of such incidents in Iran.

In January, 26 people including 16 firefighters were killed in a deadly building collapse following a fire in downtown Tehran. Officials blamed that, too, on an electrical short circuit.

and another:

http://www.wkyc.com/news/local/medina-county/man-killed-in-medina-a...

2 dead in Medina apartment explosion

WKYC 6:16 PM. EST February 09, 2017

MEDINA, Ohio -- Two people are dead, and several others hurt, after an early morning apartment explosion and fire in Medina.

It happened around 3:18 a.m. Thursday at the Medina Village Apartments on Springbrook Drive.

An 18-year-old man who was bedridden with autism died, authorities say, when a wall came down on him.

His parents couldn't get him out of the building, and sustained burns to 80 percent of their bodies. Both were taken to a nearby hospital for treatment, but the fire chief tells our news partners at WTAM that the mother has since died from her injuries.

"The building was physically blown apart," Medina Fire Chief Bob Painter said.

Five other residents were treated for minor injuries.

Approximately 20 residents were evacuated to a gym.

“I heard like a big bang," neighbor Austin Jurgens said. "It sounded like maybe even a refrigerator fell over in an apartment above me. It was that loud."

Another witness told WKYC she could hear the panic following the explosion.

Investigators are at the scene working to determine the cause.