Earth Changes and the Pole Shift
Explosions on the rise
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An oil field exploded in Basra Iraq [Iraq Oil Report ; Published September 20, 2011]; Comment by Starr DiGiacomo
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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'"
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* 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
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[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.html?iref=allsearch
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-12668634
http://abcnews.go.com/US/video/caught-on-tape-gas-main-explodes-12645405
Starr DiGiacomo
http://www.lohud.com/article/20120116/NEWS03/301160096/Gas-leak-blo...
Gas leak blows up West Haverstraw townhouse
WEST HAVERSTRAW— Leaking gas from a ruptured line blew up a townhouse today, causing a large gas-fed blaze that turned the building into a pile of rubble and led emergency responders to evacuate more than 100 homes and call for medical helicopter to transport at least two injured West Haverstraw firefighters to the Westchester County Medical Center.
The explosion left much of West Haverstraw without electricity as utility crews turned off power to avoid the possibility of sparks setting off more gas explosions.
The firefighters were at the door of the townhouse on Zarriello Lane off Route 9W when the explosion occurred at 12:37 p.m., injuring at least two volunteers seriously and an unknown number of other volunteers.
“They knocked on the door at 52 Zarriello right before the explosion,” Orange and Rockland Utilities spokesman Michael Donovan said. “No one answered, so we assume no one was home.”
Dozens of people, including the Haverstraw police Chief Charles Miller and other responders, were kept far away from the scene, for fear of additional explosions.
Emergency personnel said they didn’t know how much gas had leaked from the sewers into other clusters of townhouses in the development after a road construction crew ruptured a gas line. Part of the development is located behind the Hi-Tor Lanes bowling alley and KFC
Miller said he didn’t know the conditions of those injured and wasn’t told about any fatalities.
Emergency personnel set up headquarters at the nearby bowling alley and prepared a landing strip for the medical helicopter at West Haverstraw Elementary School.
Rockland Emergency Services Coordinator Gordon Wren Jr. said a routine gas leak response by West Haverstraw firefighters turned into a castrophe when the house exploded. He said a gas main ruptured and the gas went into the sewerage system and seeped into the houses.
Donovan said at 12:13 p.m. the utility was told that a road construction crew hit a gas main while digging. The utility sent a crew and firefighters were told to begin evacuating the area.
O&R crews were shutting down power to the area and Haverstraw Transit Co. sent three buses to Stop&Shop.
Jan 16, 2012
Starr DiGiacomo
Huge Gas Explosion Levels Rockland County Townhouse, Forces Evacuations
http://gothamist.com/2012/01/16/huge_gas_explosion_levels_rockland.php
(Courtesy ABC 7)
A townhouse was completely destroyed by a gas main explosion today in the Rockland County town of West Haverstraw. Officials say a road construction crew had ruptured the gas main near the property around noon. Workers immediately notified authorities, and volunteer firefighters raced to the area to begin evacuating residents. As two volunteer firefighters were knocking on the door to evacuate a house on Zarriello Lane, it exploded. LoHud.com reports that the volunteers were seriously injured.
So far it's believed that no one was inside the house. Gas from the ruptured main went into the sewerage system and seeped into many houses, and at least 100 homes have been evacuated. Power to much of the surrounding area has been cut, and besides the firefighters, two workers also suffered injuries, ABC 7 reports. We'll update as more information becomes available.
Jan 17, 2012
Starr DiGiacomo
http://www.spaldingtoday.co.uk/news/latest-news/people_evacuated_in...
People evacuated in Deeping St James gas explosion
Published on Tuesday 17 January 2012 08:19
AROUND 20 people were evacuated from seven homes last night (Monday) at Deeping St James following a gas explosion and fire in Manor Way.
Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue say gas leaking from an underground main was ignited by an electrical switch in a sewage pumping plant – blowing the doors off the “shed-like” installation into the road and setting the plant on fire.
Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue alerted police at 7.40pm and officers asked nearby families to leave their homes as a safety precaution.
Officers also guarded the scene while emergency services dealt with the incident.
A police spokesman said no one was hurt in the incident and the families were allowed to return home after the area was made safe at around 3am today.
Fire severely damaged the sewage pumping electrical switch station and four metres of fencing.
A fire crew from Market Deeping was sent to Manor Way shortly after 7pm and a further crew from Crowland was asked to assist.
Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue spokesman Steve Pembroke said British Gas attended to carry out repairs.
Mr Pembroke said: “The doors of the sewage switch station were blown into the road. It probably went off with quite a loud bang.”
Jan 17, 2012
Starr DiGiacomo
2 firemen burned in gas explosion; W. Haverstraw families back after evacuation
Verizon says contractor sparks blast with digging near West Haverstraw condos
http://www.lohud.com/article/20120117/NEWS03/301170060/2-firemen-bu...|newswell|text|News|p
UPDATE: 90 displaced families
WEST HAVERSTRAW — Two volunteer firefighters remained hospitalized Monday night with serious burns after leaking gas caused an explosion, destroying a townhouse and displacing 90 families.
The volunteer firefighters were at the front door of 52 Zarriello Lane when the explosion blew them 25 to 30 feet and turned the building into a pile of rubble.
The two seriously injured firefighters, Ken Patterson and fire instructor Jerry Knapp, were taken to Westchester Medical Center in Vallhalla following the 12:37 p.m. explosion.
The firefighters were knocking on front doors on Zarriello Lane as part of a precautionary evacuation of about 100 homes. Instead, hundreds of residents were displaced while emergency personnel worked at the scene.
As a result of the explosion and fire, hundreds of people were kept from their homes until nearly midnight, waiting for units to be declared safe and power to be restored in the Village Fairgrounds II development off Route 9W, said Gordon Wren Jr., Rockland Fire and Emergency Services coordinator.
Knapp, who lives near the development and is West Haverstraw’s emergency coordinator, suffered first- and second-degree burns to his face, West Haverstraw Mayor John Ramundo said. Patterson, who is employed by the village Department of Public Works, suffered severe burns to a leg.
Neither firefighter suffered life-threatening injuries, a staff member at Westchester Medical Center told The Journal News. Patterson is in serious condition in the trauma intensive care unit.
Monday’s explosion also injured two Orange and Rockland Utilities employees, who were not as seriously hurt. One was taken to Nyack Hospital and the other to Good Samaritan Hospital in Suffern, where he was remaining overnight for observation.
“They were lucky to get out of there alive,” Raymond Florida, Rockland Paramedic Services executive director, said from the fire scene. “There’s a gaping hole where the houses used to be. I’ve never seen anything like it.”
Jan 17, 2012
Starr DiGiacomo
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-16589977
Lincolnshire homes evacuated in gas explosion and fire
A gas explosion and fire has forced the evacuation of homes in a south Lincolnshire village.
Emergency services were called to Manor Way in Deeping St James, near Stamford, just after 19:00 GMT on Monday.
Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue said a ruptured gas main caused the explosion and fire at an underground sewage pump and electrical switch station.
The area was cordoned off, but has now reopened and residents from four properties have been allowed to return.
Sarah Wilcox, from National Grid, said an investigation had begun: "We don't know at this stage whether it was a build up of sewerage gas or natural gas or something entirely unrelated, so investigations will continue today.
"Fortunately we were able to isolate the gas supply and have managed to keep most people's supplies on - we had one property we had to cut off and we are returning today to restore their supply."
Jan 17, 2012
Starr DiGiacomo
Indian, Frenchman missing in Bayelsa oil rig inferno
http://www.punchng.com/news/indian-frenchman-missing-in-bayelsa-oil...
Frenchman and an Indian have been declared missing after an oil rig belonging to Chevron Corporation went up in flames in the Niger Delta on Monday morning.
The Frenchman, Brumo, is said to be the Offshore Installation Manager of Chevron Nigeria Limited while the Indian, Albert, is a driller employed by FODE Drilling Company, a firm that operated the exploded rig for Chevron.
Investigations revealed that FODE has operated in the oil and gas industry for over 12 years with a large number of engineering and manpower supply projects. The company is also said to have carried out a number of offshore projects.
Our correspondent learnt that Chevron has eight host communities named KEFFES, for its projects in the area.
Our correspondent learnt that divers had intensified their search for the missing persons around the burnt rig located along Atlantic Coast of Koloama and Sagama axis in Brass Local Government Area of Bayelsa State.
However, there were being impeded by a raging inferno at the site of the explosion.
A source in a nearby oil installation explained that “a robbot diver” would be needed to cut the supply of gas to the rig.
The Chairman of the Security, Utility and Employment Committee of KEFEES, Mr. Moses Theophilus, told our correspondent that the fire had become a hindrance to the rescue operation.
He said the air had been polluted by gas emission and that fluids resulting from the explosion were spreading into rivers and farms in the area.
He said there was an urgent need for the company to begin immediate cleanup of the environment.
The State Coordinator of the Environmental Rights Action, Mr. Morris Alagoa, confirmed the fears of the communities.
He said the group was making arrangement to visit the site.
Jan 18, 2012
Starr DiGiacomo
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/18/italy-fire-idUSL6E8CI3YX2...
UPDATE 1-Italy gas pipeline fire injures three
Wed Jan 18, 2012 1:04pm EST
(Adds injured, fire put out, company's comment)
Jan 18 (Reuters) - Three maintenance workers were injured when a powerful blast rocked a gas pipeline in northerwestern Italy, causing a fire that reached nearby houses, firefighters said on Wednesday.
The fire, now extinguished, broke out at the pipeline owned by Italy's gas grid operator Snam Rete Gas near the city of Massa Carrara.
The firefighters said a loud explosion occurred during maintenance work on the pipeline which runs from the port of La Spezia in Liguria to the central Italian city of Parma.
Snam Rete Gas said it had stopped the gas transmission at the site for security reasons. It said an alternative gas service would be provided to the affected areas.
The cause of the blast were still unknown, but Snam Rete Gas said it would help authorities investigating the accident. Three workers on the site were injured, Snam Rete Gas said.
Jan 18, 2012
Starr DiGiacomo
http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/half-of-brisbanes-bus...
Half of Brisbane's bus fleet taken off the road after gas explosion at depot
HALF the Brisbane Transport bus fleet will not be in service today after a gas explosion at Virginia bus deport in the early hours of the morning.
A Brisbane City Council spokeswoman said all buses that run on gas would not be operating today because of the incident.
Workers at the bus depot were refilling the gas cylinders on a bus at 1.17am when the gas pod exploded, a department of Community Services spokeswoman said.
"No one was injured and while fire crews attended to contain the gas there was no fire," she said.
Two buses sustained damage in the explosion.
"As a precaution following the incident, no gas powered buses will operate today while investigations are undertaken resulting in approximately half of council's bus fleet being non operational today," the council spokeswoman said.
"Commuters can expect significant disruptions to bus services throughout the weekend and are advised to leave plenty of time ahead of their journey to account for delays or make alternative transport arrangements such as trains."
TransLink said the following high-frequency services would be operating under reduced frequency:
Jan 21, 2012
Starr DiGiacomo
http://stateimpact.npr.org/texas/2012/01/20/explosion-and-fire-at-s...
Explosion and Fire at Eagle Ford Disposal Well in Pearsall [Update]
Photo courtesy of Pearsall Volunteer Fire Department
An explosion and fire rocked an oil fracking site in South Texas last night. Three were injured.
Three people have been injured after an explosion and fire at a disposal well in Pearsall, Texas Thursday night. The site is used for disposal of fracking fluids from the Eagle Ford Shale in South Texas, about 50 miles from San Antonio.* The fire burned for several hours and was put out by 9 p.m. last night. It isn’t clear yet what caused the explosion. (The Railroad Commision of Texas, which oversees drilling in the state, later released a statement explaining the explosion. You can read it below.)
Update: StateImpact Texas spoke with Pearsall Volunteer Fire Department Chief Placido Aguilar today about the fire. He said that at about 5:30 p.m. Thursday an oil tank exploded and caught fire. It took about an hour and a half to get under control once firefighters arrived. “There were four departments from around here, twelve trucks, and 33 guys that helped with the fire,” he told StateImpact Texas. He said that the fire department had to cool down three tanks holding oil so they wouldn’t reignite.
Aguilar says the site uses hydraulic fracturing to drill for oil.* “There was a well running when we got there that had to be shut down,” Aguilar said. “I know it’s producing, [because] they had three tanks full of oil. That one that exploded lost its top and was on fire.” (Update: These earlier reports appear to be wrong. The site is used for disposal of wastewater from fracking and drilling, according to the Railroad Commission of Texas. Read the statement from the Railroad Commission of Texas on the exp....)
With drilling taking off in the Eagle Ford Shale, is Aguilar concerned that his all-volunteer department will have to respond to more fires like these? “Yes, probably in the last six months we’ve had two other incidents. And they [drillers] say they’re gonna be here for a while.”
Jan 21, 2012
Starr DiGiacomo
http://www.osadvertiser.co.uk/news/ormskirk-news/2012/01/20/liverpo...
Liverpool city centre locked down amid fears of a huge gas explosion after pipe ruptures at former Lewis’s building
Jan 20 2012
HUNDREDS of people were evacuated from streets, homes and businesses amid fears of a huge gas explosion in Liverpool city centre.
Police cordoned off roads within a 200m radius of the former Lewis’s department store after emergency services received reports of a suspected gas leak around 11.30am yesterday.
Four fire crews attended and firefighters helped police evacuate premises.
The strict safety cordon caused severe knock-on effects to public transport and the city centre came to a standstill.
Bus services were subject to delay and diversion while trains were prevented from stopping or passing through Liverpool Central station.
Around 15 Merseyrail staff stood outside Central station warding off frustrated commuters who couldn’t get into the station.
On the Northern Line, Southport, Kirkby, and Ormskirk services were starting and finishing at Moorfields, while services from Kirkby to the city centre stopped at Sandhills.
A huge part of the city centre was closed, including parts of Elliot Street, Ranelagh Street, Lime Street and Copperas Hill forcing shops to shut and traffic to be diverted.
Drivers and pedestrians were advised to avoid the area completely.
It is believed around 50 shops and businesses had to close their doors because of safety fears, among them such well-known names as Boots on Great Charlotte Street and McDonald’s, on Ranelagh Street, along with all the shops at the Liverpool Central concourse.
At Clayton Square shopping centre Clayton News, Ladbrokes and Discount UK were all closed.
Also affected was the NHS walk-in centre on Great Charlotte Street, with people advised to attend an alternative facility in Old Swan.
Police ventured into the exclusion zone to clear homes.
Jack Spencer, Josh Hallam and Abbey Catherall, all studying drama at John Moores university, were told to leave their Lime Street flat at 1.30pm.
Jack, 20, said: “We were just sitting around. I was about to go to the library.
“We saw police and thought it might be a bomb scare. We were a bit worried.
“Then they knocked on our door and told us to go.”
Jan 21, 2012
Starr DiGiacomo
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/more-news/gas-cylinder-explodes-in...
Gas cylinder explodes in Bendigo man's face
A FAMILY barbecue nearly turned to tragedy in Bendigo when a gas cylinder exploded in a mans face.
The 25-year-old victim was airlifted to hospital early today with serious injuries to his face, hands and chest.
Ambulance spokesman John Mullen said shrapnel from the explosion had pierced the man’s body.
"It wasn’t just burns, he had some pretty significant fragment injuries,’’ Mr Mullen said.
The man’s family rushed him to Bendigo Hospital at midnight before he was taken by helicopter to the Alfred Hospital.
He remains in hospital in a serious but stable condition.
Jan 21, 2012
Starr DiGiacomo
http://www.businessinsider.com/an-explosion-at-an-iranian-natural-g...
Explosion At An Iranian Natural-Gas Station Kills At Least One Guard
Mehr reports that the blast occurred in the northern Iranian city of Rasht and left at least one guard dead (via Bloomberg).
An increase in gas pressure is being blamed for the explosion, and the ensuing fire that killed the guard.
Mehr said the incident occurred at the Lakan gas station in Rasht, but officials refuse to say where exactly the blast took place.
Jan 21, 2012
Starr DiGiacomo
http://www.stamfordmercury.co.uk/news/local/couple_s_terror_after_s...
Couple’s terror after sewage pump explosion in Deeping St James
Workmen at Manor Way, Deeping St James, following a sewage pumping plant fire
Published on Saturday 21 January 2012 13:00
A COUPLE have spoken of their fear after a sewage pumping station outside their home exploded.
Accountants Trevor and Jenny Cheesman were enjoying a quiet night at home in Manor Way, Deeping St James when a loud bang shook the street at about 7pm on Monday.
They looked out of their window and saw the shed-like sewage pump switch box in front of their garden in flames.
Gas from a ruptured main in the box had been ignited by a spark from one of the pump’s electric switches, sending the door of the box flying down the road.
Mrs Cheesman said: “There was one hell of a bang. My first thought was my God, what the hell is that?
“When I looked outside the front of the box was 20 feet down the road and there were fireworks coming from the box. I couldn’t believe it, it was scary.”
Fire crews were on the scene within 10 minutes to deal with the blaze, which had spread to a fence belonging to the neighbouring Deeping St James Primary School.
But the initial explosion had ripped a hole in the pavement and mains gas was still burning.
Mr Cheesman added: “They couldn’t get it under control, they had to wait for the electricity to be switched off.
“Then we could smell gas. A crack in the path was alight but they couldn’t put it out in case gas built up somewhere else. They had to let it burn like a pilot light.”
Seven homes in the street were evacuated by police as a safety precaution. The Cheesmans spent the night with a friend in Baston. Mrs Cheesman was worried about what she might find in the morning.
She said: “I didn’t sleep well because it was still burning when I left. I didn’t know whether we would come back to a house or not.
“If there had been another explosion who knows what we would have been left with.”
Engineers from Anglian Water, Western Power Distribution and British Gas worked with the fire service through the night to isolate the leak and put out the fire.
Flames were extinguished by about 3.30am and families were allowed back into their homes by 6am.
Mrs Cheesman said: “It’s lucky it didn’t happen during the day or that nobody was walking across to the shops.”
Anglian Water engineers have been working to find the fault with the pumping station since the explosion but power was restored to the street on Tuesday.
Jan 21, 2012
Starr DiGiacomo
http://www.smh.com.au/national/gas-blast-sidelines-half-bus-fleet-2...
Gas blast sidelines half bus fleet
Off the buses ... Brisbane City Council buses at Virginia Bus Depot after a gas tank explosion yesterday morning.
BRISBANE is facing a back-to-school traffic nightmare tomorrow with half of the city's bus fleet still out of service following an explosion at a bus depot.
Almost 560 gas-powered buses were taken off the road after a gas tank ruptured about 1.15am yesterday. Workers at the Virginia depot were refilling gas cylinders on a bus when the tank exploded, turning into a projectile and striking another bus, the city council said.
No one was injured but all gas-powered buses were immediately taken out of service while investigations were carried out by engineers.
Fifteen high-frequency services, mostly in the northern and western suburbs of Brisbane, were running at a severely reduced rate yesterday, causing major delays for commuters.
More worrying is the hundreds of thousands of Brisbane state school students returning to school tomorrow morning and how a halved bus fleet could affect the road network in such already congested conditions.
A spokesman for lord mayor Graham Quirk said it was unfortunate the incident had occurred so close to the beginning of the school year.
''We're still hopeful that we'll be able to get some of the gas-powered buses out there for Monday but in the meantime we're contingency planning," he said. He said today's timetable would be able to run as normal but only because Sundays used half the bus fleet anyway. A decision would be made today as to whether the gas-powered buses would be put back on the roads tomorrow, he said.
Information on the bus timetables is available on the Translink website.
Jan 21, 2012
Starr DiGiacomo
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2012/01/21/bc-...
Workers smelled gas ahead of B.C. mill blast
Roof of Babine Forest Products mill 'literally blew off,' worker tells CBC
At least 19 people were taken to hospitals with minor to serious injuries after an explosion and fire tore through the Babine Forest Products mill, east of Burns Lake, B.C., a health-care official said Saturday.
A worker who was not at the mill at the time of the blast told CBC News on Saturday that two people were still missing. Prince George RCMP Const. Lesley Smith said she could not confirm the numbers injured or whether any workers were unaccounted for.
Burns Lake RCMP responded to reports of an explosion at the mill around 8:15 p.m. PT Friday. Initial reports gave a higher injury count of 28, but Northern Health spokesman Steve Raper revised the number early Saturday.
Frankie Erickson, a longtime employee at the mill whose sons were working during the explosion but were unhurt, said workers had smelled gas the day before.
"My neighbour smelled gas last night on his shift," Erickson, his voice breaking, told CBC News in a telephone interview. "I hear the roof literally blew off … Twenty-nine years of work in the mill, and I've never seen an explosion like this."
Erickson said his neighbour and an assistant foreman are still missing.
"It supposed be [my neighbour's] day off but he wanted to work and he hasn't been home," said Erickson who broke down over the phone.
"He's just a kid, he's just a young boy. He's just starting his life. His mum is still waiting for her son to come home,"
Erickson also said workers were being pressured to work harder than ever.
"It shouldn't have happened," he said. "We averaged seven a shift and 10 hours a day and we had no coffee breaks [and] the mill ran for 20 hours straight."
It was a normal shift and the mill, 220 kilometres west of Prince George, was fully staffed when the blast occurred, according to police.
Northern Health initiated a Code Orange response, applied in situations where officials expect a large number of casualities.
Photos taken at the scene show the mill engulfed in flames.
Concerned family members crowded into Margaret Patrick Memorial Hall in Burns Lake to get updates.
The Lakes District Hospital in Burns Lake quickly became overwhelmed and several of the injured were taken to Prince George for treatment, while a few went to the hospital in nearby Vanderhoof.
Others had to be transported to hospitals as far away as Edmonton and Vancouver.
Jan 21, 2012
Starr DiGiacomo
Jan 23, 2012
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Jan 23, 2012
Starr DiGiacomo
INCIDENT: GAS EXPLOSION FEAR IN LIVERPOOL CITY CENTRE
http://www.ppconstructionsafety.com/newsdesk/2012/01/24/incident-ga...
The Liverpool Echo has reported that HSE are to launch an official investigation into a ”gas leak scare” in Liverpool city centre.
The public were evacuated amid fears of a gas explosion caused by the ruptured pipe. Liverpool Central station was closed throughout the incident. HSE confirmed formal investigation of incident as a dangerous occurrence with the potential to cause significant harm. A spokesman for the HSE said:
It is reported that a gas pipe was “damaged by building rubble falling from a chute” used by contractors working on a building undergoing major transformation by developers Merepark.
Jan 24, 2012
Starr DiGiacomo
http://tribune.com.pk/story/326936/gas-explosion-seven-killed-in-pe...
Gas explosion: Seven killed in Peshawar roof collapse
January 25, 2012
Seven people, including women and children, were killed when the roof of a house collapsed. PHOTO: RESCUE 1122
PESHAWAR: Seven people, including a woman and three children, were killed when the roof of a house collapsed due to an explosion caused by a gas leakage in the Namak Mandi area of Peshawar early morning on Wednesday.
Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Imtiaz told The Express Tribune that the explosion, which took place at around 4:45am, was the result of a gas leakage. He said the roof of the double-story building collapsed, killing five people from the same family.
“Nazar Muhammad, his wife and three daughters were killed, while one daughter sustained injuries,” he said. The DSP said that the wife of Nazar Muhammad’s brother was also killed as a result of the explosion.
Imtiaz said that despite awareness campaigns, people do not turn off gas heaters and incidents like this one have become routine.
An operation to shift the debris is currently underway.
Jan 25, 2012
Starr DiGiacomo
http://www.myfoxdetroit.com/dpp/news/local/explosion-rocks-home-on-...
Explosion Rocks Home on Detroit's West Side
Fire spreads to two other homes as well
Updated: Wednesday, 25 Jan 2012, 8:38 PM EST
http://www.myfoxdetroit.com/dpp/news/local/explosion-rocks-home-on-...
DETROIT (WJBK) -- An explosion destroyed a home and rocked a neighborhood on Detroit's west side Wednesday. The resulting fire also spread to two neighboring homes. It happened in the 7000 block of Faust.
"I dialed 911. Five, almost ten minutes went by and I still [had] my house phone to my head and no fire department," said Mitch Williams. "I [went] outside and I [went] to the back and I could still see it hadn't touch my house yet, and I called 911 again, a second time, and they said they were on their way."
However, it was too late. The side of Williams' house was already on fire. The house next door to his exploded after a suspected gas leak.
Engine 55 is half a mile from where the house exploded. It's literally right around the corner, but the firefighters there did not respond because a door wouldn't work.
"In this city, we're already at a shortage. We have other issues going on. It's most important that we get there in a timely fashion," said Robert Gasaway with the Detroit Fire Department. "We were hoping we could still get the rig out, but we couldn't get it out."
Cell phone video shows the chilling moments before the first crews responded. Flames shot through the air. The fire danced from house to house destroying the homes on both sides. Homeowners watched in disbelief as everything they owned went up in smoke.
The woman who lives directly behind the house that exploded says the blast knocked her to her knees.
"The whole house shook. It sounded like a bomb went off, and things came off the walls and off my bookshelf. It really scared me. I hit the floor. I didn't know what it was. It sounded just like a bomb," said Jennifer Mandeville.
"I just pulled up. I couldn't have been there 30 minutes. I didn't smell anything. All I know is I just heard a boom. 30 minutes, I laid down and boom. That was it," Mitchell explained.
Fire officials tell FOX 2 they arrived seven minutes after the call came in at 10:05 a.m., but that crew was from Engine 53 from Greenfield and Fenkell, not the one just a few blocks away.
"Do you think the door being down had any affect on response time?" FOX 2's Maurielle Lue asked Gasaway.
"It may have added a couple of extra minutes, but our response times are rather [good]," he responded.
However, sometimes a few minutes is all you have left.
"My house is totaled, all my family's stuff. Everybody got out [of] the house," said Williams. "All my property, everything is destroyed."
The good news is that door at Engine 55 has already been repaired.
Jan 26, 2012
Starr DiGiacomo
http://pakistan.onepakistan.com/news/city/peshawar/43092-7-persons-...
7 persons died due gas explosion
Peshawar : The explosion due to gas leakage on Wednesday morning resulted killing of seven people, including a woman and three children in Namak Mandi area, jurisdiction of Shah Qabool Police Station.
Police confirmed that the dead included children and female who died under the debris when roof of a house collapsed due to an explosion caused by a gas leakage. The explosion took place at around 4:45am also caused injuries to two people who were identified as Irshad Rahman age 29 and Sameen Jan age 25. The family members were in sleep when the explosion occurred destroying the roof of two houses.
The injured persons were shifted to Lady Reading Hospital where their condition is stated to be out danger. Those who died were identified as Nazar Muhammad 45, his wife 35, daughters including Atia, 12, Aiman 9, Asma 13, Maryam 23 and Waqar of 8 year old. Police said wife the wife of Nazar Muhammad s brother was also killed as a result of the explosion.
Jan 26, 2012
Starr DiGiacomo
http://online.wsj.com/article/AP5febf0f51056400f9ed0ec8c16a6eaa8.html
JANUARY 26, 2012, 1:55 P.M. ET
Gas-line break in NY town 10 days after explosion
WEST HAVERSTRAW, N.Y. — There's been another gas-line rupture in the suburban New York town where a house was leveled in a gas explosion last week.
A spokesman for Orange and Rockland Utilities says that for the second time in 10 days, a contractor punctured a gas main in West Haverstraw (HAV'-ur-straw).
The spokesman says, however, that in Thursday's case, the main was already exposed rather than underground. Therefore, gas from the leak was venting into the air rather than building up underground.
He says repairs are under way and there have been no evacuations.
On Jan. 16, a different contractor punctured a gas line. It led to an explosion that injured two firefighters as they were going door-to-door to evacuate residents.
West Haverstraw is about 30 miles north of New York City.
Jan 26, 2012
Starr DiGiacomo
http://peninsulaclarion.com/news/2012-01-26/crews-respond-to-soldot...
Crews respond to Soldotna home explosion
Details still emerging on accident that sent 2 to CPH
An explosion inside a Soldotna home Thursday afternoon at 336 West Riverview Ave. sent two residents to Central Peninsula Hospital for injuries.
It is uncertain what caused the explosion.
The small single-story home sat slumped, windows shattered in the total loss incident. A black SUV sat close to house badly damaged as well.
Neighbors who heard the explosion ran outside to witness two individuals exit the house within 30 seconds of each other. The first occupant entered a vehicle in the street and was taken to CPH, and a neighbor’s friend transported the second male to CPH.
One of the occupants suffered “severe burns” and “didn’t have any hair,” according to witnesses.
Central Emergency Services responders continued to monitor an exposed gas line near the damaged home as of 3 p.m.
CES plans to extinguish the gas line once its supply is shut off.
ENSTAR Natural Gas Company workers were digging in the area across from the house to locate the gas line’s source.
Jan 27, 2012
Starr DiGiacomo
http://www.kirotv.com/news/news/man-injured-violent-blast-destroyed...
Man injured in violent blast that destroyed 40-foot boat
SEQUIM, Washington —
A violent explosion on a 40-foot boat sent debris flying, left a man with burns and broken bones and damaged other vessels.
The cause of the blast, which happened at about 6 p.m. on Tuesday at Sequim’s John Wayne Marina, is not yet known. It destroyed the boat and had enough force to damage other vessels within 75 yards.
A boat in the slip next to the vessel that exploded had a blown-out window and hull damage, and the force of the blast knocked a man and a woman to the deck two slips down, breaking out a number of their boat’s windows.
Clallam County firefighters said that couple, Clifford and Julie Houser, got up and ran to the wreckage, where the victim, a 78-year-old man, was trapped in the water, covered in debris. They were able to rescue the man as paramedics arrived.
The man was identified to the Peninsula Daily News as Keith Bryant.
Pictures taken by Clallam County Fire District 3 showed the wreckage in the slip with shards of hull, rope, and other floating and half-sunken items.
The victim was airlifted to Harborview Medical Center with serious injuries.
Feb 1, 2012
Starr DiGiacomo
http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/3-seriously-hurt-in-mall-gas...
3 'seriously hurt' in mall gas blast
Johannesburg - Three workers were seriously injured in a gas explosion at the Festival Mall in Kempton Park on Thursday, Mugg and Bean management said.
"Our restaurant was badly damaged by the explosion which happened around 07:00 on Thursday morning," said Kevin Hedderwick, CEO
of the restaurant's holding company Famous Brands.
"The three workers who have been hospitalised have serious injuries, but these are not life-threatening," Hedderwick said.
Several other workers were treated for minor injuries.
"Counselling has been offered to other workers who witnessed the explosion."
Ekurhuleni emergency services management spokesperson William Ntladi said no customers were injured.
"The explosion happened in one of the back rooms near the kitchen of the Mugg and Bean restaurant," Ntladi said.
The local fire chief, police and representatives of gas supplier Afrox were still on the scene.
Ntladi earlier said the blast was apparently a gas explosion.
Feb 2, 2012
Starr DiGiacomo
http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/2012/02/03/man-luc...
Man lucky to be alive after gas explosion in North Wales
Feb. 3, 2012A MAN cheated death when a gas bottle exploded and demolished part of his bungalow.
The middle aged man suffered burns to his hands in the blast on the Y Fridd estate in Morfa Bychan, near Porthmadog, last night.
Fire crews from Porthmadog and Blaenau Ffestiniog were called at 5.19pm, along with a technical unit from Caernarfon. Police and paramedics were also quickly on the scene.
The man was taken to Ysbyty Gwynedd for treatment.
One nearby householder, who did not wish to be named, said: “It happened about 50 yards away from our house. I heard it. I felt this great thump.
“I thought somebody had dropped something outside, or maybe my husband had fallen upstairs.
“I didn’t realise what had happened until someone rang me from Blaenau Ffestiniog saying it had just been on the news.
“I saw blue flashing lights from police cars and at least one fire engine.
“All I could see was the kitchen window had blown out.”
Fire service experts are now investigating the cause of the explosion.
A North Wales Police spokesman said last night: “A man has been taken to hospital with superficial burns to his hands following an explosion at a bungalow in Morfa Bychan, near Porthmadog at around 5.20pm today.
“North Wales Fire and Rescue Service were called to the incident in Y Ffridd following a suspected bottled gas explosion which partially demolished the single storey building.
“The middle aged man was taken to Ysbyty Gwynedd in Bangor for treatment.
“Two pumps from Porthmadog and Blaenau Ffestiniog and a tender from Caernarfon attended the scene.”
Feb 3, 2012
Starr DiGiacomo
http://edition.cnn.com/2012/02/04/world/africa/egypt-pipeline-blast/
Gas pipeline explodes in Egypt's northern Sinai
Cairo (CNN) -- Massive flames shot into the sky over northern Sinai on Saturday after a section of a pipeline that carries gas from Egypt to Israel and Jordan exploded, according to a security official in the region.
The explosion occurred near the northern Sinai city of Arish, said General Saleh Elmasry, head of North Sinai Security. Egypt's state-run Middle East News Agency attributed the cause of the blast to unknown militants.
Emergency crews were heading to the scene of the explosion, Elmasry said. There were no immediate reports of injuries.
The blast is the latest in a series of attacks on the pipeline in recent months.
The Egyptian army and police announced in August that they were cracking down on terror groups in the area believed to be carrying out the attacks.
Israel receives about 40% of its natural gas from Egypt.
The pipeline between Egypt and Israel became operational in 2008 and the arrangement represents one of the major economic agreements between the two countries.
The issue of gas sales to Israel has become highly controversial in Egypt with various allegations circulating that Israel received below market prices for the gas and that Egyptian government officials enriched themselves on the deal.
The Israeli government and Israeli investors in the pipeline have categorically denied receiving below market pricing for the gas.
Feb 5, 2012
Starr DiGiacomo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocGU96m_l0w
Feb 5, 2012
Starr DiGiacomo
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-16893946
Keighley gas blast homes evacuated
Ten homes have been evacuated after a gas explosion at a house in Keighley which left two people injured.
More than 20 firefighters were called to the incident in Brook Row in the Oakworth area of the town on Saturday night. Fire crews remain at the scene.
Two people were taken to hospital, one with burns to the hands and face, the other suffering from smoke inhalation.
Firefighters worked with gas engineers to cap the gas mains, a West Yorkshire Fire Service spokeswoman said.
Feb 5, 2012
Starr DiGiacomo
Householder rushed to burns unit after gas explosion rips through her home
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2096837/Houses-evacuated-ga...
Last updated at 8:30 PM on 5th February 2012
A woman was rushed to hospital today after an explosion caused by a suspected gas leak tore through her home.
She was taken to the burns unit after flames ripped through the building shortly before 9.30am.
Residents were evacuated from neighbouring homes in Basingstoke, Hampshire, amid fears of further destruction as utility experts tried to locate the source of the leak.
Powerful blast: The force of the gas explosion at this house in Basingstoke is clear to see. A female occupant was rushed to a burns unit
A spokesman for Hampshire Police said: 'Officers are currently assisting with the evacuation of 20 homes in Basingstoke following an explosion in a home.
'Officers were called at about 9.30am by the ambulance crew attending the scene.
'One woman was injured and has been transferred to the burns unit at Salisbury District Hospital as a precautionary measure. The injuries are not life-threatening.'
Utility company workers were examining the property to determine what caused the blast.
Probe: Emergency services and utility workers attempt to make the area safe as they investigate what caused the blast
A police spokesman said: 'It is thought to have been caused by a gas leak in the drainage system, leading to gas being contained in the walls of the house.
'Although the explosion and resulting flash fire was contained to one house, surrounding homes were evacuated as a precautionary measure until utility companies have been able to locate the leak and bring it under control.'
Those evacuees who did not have relatives or friends to seek shelter with were taken to the Poppyfield Centre, Basingstoke, to wait for the all clear.
Feb 5, 2012
Starr DiGiacomo
http://www.thurrockgazette.co.uk/news/9514964.Homes_evacuated_after...
Homes evacuated after gas leak caused manhole cover explosion
4:24pm Monday 6th February 2012
RESIDENTS and business were evacuated after a manhole cover exploded in a Tilbury street.
Firefighters from Orsett evacuated nearby homes and shops in Calcutta Road after a gas leak and a short-circut in a junction box caused the explosion at 2.30pm this afternoon.
Engineers from Transco and the electricity board were scrambled to the scene to deal with the leak and the junction box.
Police officers sealed off the road in both directions as engineers and firefighters worked quickly to deal with the incident.
Crews used a dry powder extinguisher to put out the fire in the junction box.
Feb 6, 2012
Starr DiGiacomo
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2097243/Home-torn-apart-nei...
Home torn apart and neighbours evacuated as massive explosion is caused… by a TOASTER
Feb 6, 2012
A house was ripped apart by a gas explosion that neighbours described as sounding like a bomb when fumes were ignited by the home owner making toast.
Pamela Gilson was rushed to hospital and houses nearby were evacuated after the 61-year-old's toaster caused a fireball to rip through her home in Oakworth, West Yorkshire.
Some described the noise as being like a bomb while others suggested that it felt as though there had been an earthquake as it shook the whole street and debris blew into the road.
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Injured Pamela Gilson, 61, (left) leaving her wrecked home in Oakworth, West Yorkshire, and (right) the damage caused to her extension
Firefighters believe that gas had been leaking from a corroded pipe into the kitchen extension that was completely demolished in the blast
Ms Gilson was left with flash burns to her hands and face but her injuries are not believed to be life-threatening.
A second person was admitted to hospital with smoke inhalation.
Neighbours Michael and Helen Hockenhull, who were evacuated from their home, said the explosion was so loud they initially thought it had happened in their own house.
Mrs Hockenhull said the blast sounded like 'a bomb going off', and she expected the woman whose house was at the heart of the explosion would be in shock.
She said: 'When she comes back to see what state her house is in it'll be even more of a shock for her.
Feb 6, 2012
Starr DiGiacomo
http://www.platts.com/RSSFeedDetailedNews/RSSFeed/Coal/8903624
METHANE EXPLOSION
One killed, 9 injured in methane explosion at Ukrainian coalmine
Kiev (Platts)--7Feb2012/758 am EST/1258 GMT
One Ukrainian coal miner was killed and nine were injured in a methane gas explosion at a coal mine in the Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine, the emergency situations ministry reported Tuesday.
The explosion occurred around 22:52 local time (2152 GMT) Monday about 1,160 meters deep inside the Pivnichna coalmine.
There were 136 coal miners working in a shift at the mine when the accident happened, while 10 miners appeared to be close to the epicenter of the explosion, the ministry said.
The coalmine operation was temporary suspended and a special commission was created to investigate the accident, the ministry said.
Ukrainian coal mines are considered to be unsafe due to high concentration of methane gas that comes with the coal deposits, while sometimes the outdated technologies and equipment are also blamed. Methane gas explosions kill and injure hundreds of coal miners annually.
Feb 8, 2012
Starr DiGiacomo
Explosion in Lahoisk: There’s Smell of Gas in the House for Three Days
The basic version of an explosion in a hostel in Lahoisk district, which is currently verified, is a gas leak. This was reported by Head of Information and Public Relations of the Investigative Committee of Belarus Pavel Traulko on February 9.
"According to the residents, there was a strong smell of gas in the house for three days. Audio-talks of the house residents and the gas control service were checked during the investigation into this criminal case. It will help to find out whether there really was the information about the smell of gas over the last few nights," he said, reports CTV.
According to the representative of the Investigative Committee of Belarus, the actions of officials of the housing maintenance organizations and organizations involved in the supply of gas are going to be legally assessed in the course of the investigation.
As Telegraf previously reported, the victims of the explosion in Lahoisk have already begun to receive the financial aid.
Feb 10, 2012
Starr DiGiacomo
http://poleshift.ning.com/profiles/blogs/africa-natural-gas-rig-sti...
Feb 11, 2012
Starr DiGiacomo
http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20120212/METRO/202120319/Manhole...|topnews|text|FRONTPAGE
Manhole explosion rocks Max Fisher music venue; Sphinx15 competition moved
Police, Fire, DTE Energy and MichCon workers investigate the scene of a manhole explosion in front of the Max M. Fisher Music Center on Woodward Avenue in Detroit, Sunday. (Brandy Baker / The Detroit News)
Detroit— At least one manhole cover blew off Sunday morning outside the Max M. Fisher Music Center on Woodward just north of Mack Avenue.
Detroit police and firefighters were on the scene as of about 11 a.m. working with DTE Energy and MichCon to determine exactly what happened, a fire department dispatcher said.
Nobody was injured in the blast, but people in the music center had to be evacuated, Detroit Symphony Orchestra spokeswoman Gabrielle Poshadlo said.
Police have closed off Woodward between Parsons and Selden streets.
"It appears to be some sort of an underground cable failure," said Len Singer, spokesman for DTE. "We're still investigating exactly what the source of that was."
Methane gas can build up and create enough pressure to pop off manhole covers, Singer said.
"It's not common, but it's not unheard of," he said of the blast.
DTE hasn't received any reports of people losing power. Poshadlo said she doesn't know the extent of any damage to the music center.
Due to the explosion today's Sphinx15 Finals Competition, originally scheduled to be held at the Max M. Fisher Music Center, has been moved to Hill Auditorium on the campus of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Hill Auditorium will honor all previously issued tickets.
No other events have been cancelled or rescheduled to this point.
Feb 13, 2012
Starr DiGiacomo
A question is already posed to ZT in this weeks chat about the mysterious explosions in Russia over the past week. I have no idea what this is but it is worrisome.
http://hainanwel.com/en/unusual-world/1524-repetition-of-1908.html
As reported the Geophysical Service of Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences- two unusually powerful explosions occurred in the last few days in the south of Western Siberia, a few dozen kilometers of the town of Belovo, Kemerovo Region, Russia. The first explosion took place February 9, 2012 at 20:30 pm, the explosion was such a huge force, that the inhabitants of cities Belovo Prokopevsk, Novokuznetsk, Kemerovo felt such powerful tremors of the earth, which in many apartments the furniture were falling, many residents were in the panic, ran into the street, thinking that this is an earthquake, but according to the Geophysical Service of Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, that have been published already after a few minutes after these shocks- Russian Academy of Sciences excluded the possibility of an earthquake, as an explosion occurred on the surface of the earth, the force was M3.6 on the Richter scale. After this - at February 12, 2012 was another explosion, a little weaker, than the previous explosion, and the Geophysical Service of the Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences also noted, that it was an explosion but was not an earthquake and this explosion occurred exactly at the same place (the copy of the report message of Geophysical Service of Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences can be viewed at the top of this article). All the local press of the Kemerovo region for several days discussed these strange explosions, for first- these explosions can not be explained by the extraction of minerals, since the extraction of minerals in Russia at night time is strictly prohibited, and secondly, the explosions were so much force, that they were equivalent to an explosion of several thousand tons of explosives, and so much explosives do not have the local companies, that extract minerals in this region. Therefore, put forward suggestions, that it were the explosions like of the Tunguska explosion of 1908 or it were the testing of new models of tectonic weapons. Two days ago the specialists of Russian Academy of Sciences from Moscow arrived in Kemerovo, now in the area of explosions are prohibited the access of local residents.
Feb 16, 2012
Starr DiGiacomo
Re: the explosions in Russia, new ZetaTalk
SOZT
Clearly the Earth moved, though this movement did not fit the criteria of an earthquake. Stretch zone tears are normally silent, though the roaring and singing Earth has lately given them a voice. When rock tears apart there is humming and an occasional boom, but the movement does not usually have enough violence to throw furniture. Belovo Prokopevsk, Novokuznetsk, and Kemerovo are in lowlands, in a region skirting the foothills of the Himalayas, not far from the path we have described for the new Eurasian Seaway.
http://www.zetatalk.com/info/tinfx360.htm
This region has many rivers, indicative of thin rock easily pulled apart. This was not an explosion caused by methane, as was Tunguska.
http://www.zetatalk.com/science/s57.htm
Nor will it be adequately explained by the authorities who are under constraints not to ascribe the Earth changes to the nearby presence of Planet X.
EOZT
Prior ZT: http://www.zetatalk.com/science/s57.htm
It was a huge cloud of well mixed methane and air, equivalent to all the natural gas being piped about in the US at any given time, and the burn spread around this cloud or that, under and over and around, until a particular pocket of well mixed methane and air had no where to go with its heat since the burn was all around. Itself burning, the heat ramped the combustion up to the explosion level.
Prior ZT: http://www.zetatalk.com/info/tinfx360.htm
The new Eurasian Plate seaway is anticipated to run just to the east of the Iran border, going up through western Pakistan and Afghanistan and thence round along the eastern borders of Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan where the lowlands are skirting the foothills of the Himalayas. The Eurasian Plate rips through the lowlands skirting along the highlands, a stretch zone adjustment that is silent and only deadly to those directly above the point of tear. This has happened before to the great Eurasian Plate, as the lowlands through his middle attest.
Feb 17, 2012
Starr DiGiacomo
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/breaking-news/dozens-injured-i...
Another chemical explosion.
Dozens injured in Thai resort explosion
An injured tourist is wheeled into Patong Hospital. Picture: phuketwan.com Source: Supplied
AT least 30 people are being treated for injuries after an explosion at a resort in the popular holiday town of Phuket, Thai website phuketwan.com is reporting.
Dozens of tourists and resort workers were rushed to hospital this morning after a mix of pool cleaning agents “exploded” into a cloud of gas beside a pool at a Phuket resort, the Phuket Gazette is reporting
Staff at the Phuket Orchid Resort in Karon confirmed to the Phuket Gazette that the cloud of gas was formed by a mix of chlorine and other cleaning agents rapidly expanding in a tank beside the pool.
“It was not a bomb,” said one resort worker.
Officials have confirmed that at least 10 Thais and 26 foreigners were rushed to Patong Hospital for immediate treatment.
As all of those affected have suffered chlorine inhalation, they have been transferred to Phuket International Hospital, Bangkok Hospital Phuket and Vachira Phuket Hospital in Phuket Town for further treatment.
One father on holiday with his family from Norway told the Gazette that the major symptoms suffered by those affected included coughing and difficulty in breathing, sore throats and headaches.
Feb 18, 2012
Starr DiGiacomo
17 injured in two explosions in Sighetu Marmatiei
Feb 20, 2012
Starr DiGiacomo
http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/2012/02/5-alarm_jersey_city_blaz...
FIVE ALARM JERSEY CITY (US) BLAZE CAUSED BY GAS LEAK
Happened yesterday. New Jersey is in the stretch zone. Last year Pennsylvania kicked off with alot of gas explosions and fatalities but NJ will see more of the same.
The 5-alarm blaze that devastated the lives of shop owners and tenants in a building off Jersey City's McGinley Square yesterday is believed to have started behind a laundromat clothes dryer and was likely fueled by a gas leak, officials said.
"The manager at the laundromat heard a boom and when she went to investigate she found fire behind a dryer," Fire Director Armando Roman said today of the raging 5 p.m. blaze that gutted the two-story building at Monticello and Fairmount avenues.
A second-floor resident told firefighters he too heard an explosion and ran from the building, Roman said.
Feb 20, 2012
Starr DiGiacomo
http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=780398&publicati...
Ecuador mine explosion leaves 5 dead, 15 injured
February 23, 2012 08:25 AM
Feb 23, 2012
Starr DiGiacomo
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view.bg?articleid=1405682
Winthrop fire chief: ‘Lucky day’ for 3 who fled home explosion
A father and his two daughters fled their house in Winthrop this morning after multiple explosions sparked heavy fire and left the structure buckled and listing, authorities said.
A National Grid gas truck is on the scene at 627 Pleasant St. The gas line to the house was shut off.
The father was taken to Mass General Hospital with first- or second-degree burns on face and hands. His wife was at work at the time, and raced home. She and her daughters took refuge on an MBTA bus at the scene.
The safe escape of the three inside was the “best possible outcome,” said Winthrop Fire Chief Paul Flanagan. “It’s their lucky day.”
Flanagan said the origin of the fire is undetermined but there is “no reason to believe it is suspicious.”
Neighbors said they heard an explosion and felt their own homes shake around 8 a.m.
“It shook the whole house,” said next-door neighbor Kenneth O’Connell, 37, who said he looked out of his bedroom window and saw the whole side of his neighbor’s house blown off. “It was like a bomb went off.”
Fire officials arrived to find flames shooting out of the two-story yellow house. It appears the initial explosion was in the basement, Flanagan said.
An hour after the explosion, debris littered the home’s front lawn and driveway and the street remained filled with firetrucks and firefighters.
Feb 23, 2012
Starr DiGiacomo
http://www.freep.com/article/20120223/NEWS03/120223008/4-people-inj...|mostpopular|text|FRONTPAGE
4 people injured at Walled Lake apartment complex explosion
Walled Lake apartment explosion and fire: Scenes from the Walled Lake apartment explosion & fire
The scene this morning at an apartment fire in Walled Lake on the 42800 block of W. 14 Mile at Beachwalk. / ERIC SEALS//DETROIT FREE PRESS
The scene this morning at an apartment fire in Walled Lake on the 42800 block of W. 14 Mile at Beachwalk. / ERIC SEALS//DETROIT FREE PRESS
Capt. Matt Salow of Walled Lake Fire Dept talks to media outside of a small apartment complex that blew up. Four people inside where able to get out on their own but suffered from burns. They were all transported to Botsford Hospital with the possibility to be taken to U of M according to the Capt / Eric Seals/Detroit Free Press
Feb 23, 2012
Starr DiGiacomo
Russia
http://vestnikkavkaza.net/news/society/23529.html
Gas Explosion Blast causes building collapse in Astrakhan
A communal entrance hallway in a residential house in Astrakhan has collapsed after an explosion, ITAR-TASS reports.
The second entrance of the 9-storey 6-entrance house collapsed from the 10th floor to the ground floor. Emergency services said that the building looks like a pie with the middle piece taken out.
Oleg Grekov, head of the press service of the Southern Regional Center of the Ministry for Emergencies, said that two people were rescued. The number of people in the building is being clarified.
Information about the blast was received at 1 pm. Preliminary data indicates that the explosion was caused by a gas leak.
Feb 27, 2012
Starr DiGiacomo
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/27/russia-apartment-building-...
Shoddy construction.....a possible suicide attempt......all in all Russia is seeing gas explosions on a daily basis.
MOSCOW (AP) — A section of a nine-story apartment building in a southern Russian city has collapsed in an explosion possibly caused by natural gas, injuring at least 12 people.
Rescue workers are searching through the rubble for more possible victims. Russian news agencies, citing emergency officials, say at least 11 people who lived in the building haven't been accounted for.
The explosion occurred Monday in Astrakhan, 1300 kilometers (800 miles) southeast of Moscow.
The ITAR-Tass news agency quoted regional Investigative Committee spokeswoman Aanna Konyaeva as saying that the blast first blew out a lower section of the building. As people rushed to help, the upper six stories collapsed.
Explosions of gas cannisters in Russian residences and businesses are common.
Feb 27, 2012
Chris
http://rt.com/news/russia-explosion-building-collapse-315/
video of the collapse!
Feb 27, 2012
Starr DiGiacomo
https://encrypted-tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcR_eIq3uxm1c9FS...
Chemical factory blast kills 13 in northern China
An explosion ripped through a chemical factory in North China on Tuesday, killing at least 13 people and injuring 43, the government said of the latest industrial accident to strike the nation.
BEIJING: An explosion ripped through a chemical factory in North China on Tuesday, killing at least 13 people and injuring 43, the government said of the latest industrial accident to strike the nation.
The impact of the blast, which occurred near Shijiazhuang city, capital of Hebei province, was felt in at least three nearby villages, the official Xinhua news agency said.
Photographs posted on the Internet purportedly of the blast site showed a large crater surrounded by debris. The walls of several workshops that surrounded the site had been destroyed.
The cause of the blast is still under investigation and rescue efforts are ongoing, the State Administration of Work Safety said on its website.
The casualty toll came from a preliminary report, the administration said, indicating it could rise.
Safety standards are regularly flouted in China, and workplace accidents remain common despite repeated pledges by the government to improve regulations and oversight.
Nearly 50,000 people died in work-related accidents in the first nine months of 2011, the administration said earlier.
Last week, 13 workers were killed at an explosion at a northeast China steel factory, while three people died in a gas leak at a steel plant in eastern China’s Nanjing city, state press reports said.
Feb 28, 2012
Starr DiGiacomo
South Africa
http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Man-dies-in-fuel-station-exp...
The owner of this Free State fuel station died and two of his workers are in hospital with burns after a massive explosion, presumably caused by a gas bottle. (Vrede Nuus, Volksblad)
Bloemfontein - The owner of a fuel station in Vrede was killed and two of his employees were seriously injured on Tuesday in a huge explosion and fire that gutted the fuel station and next-door tire company.
A forensic team from Pretoria will investigate the cause of the explosion.
Feb 29, 2012
Starr DiGiacomo
18 Injured in Gas Explosion at St. Petersburg Restaurant
Police suspected a gas leak as the most likely cause of the blast.
Thirteen people were hospitalized with injuries from the explosion and a resulting fire. Five others were wounded but refused to be hospitalized.
The blast also partially destroyed the staircase on the lower floors of the apartment building located above the restaurant.
Police have opened a criminal case against the restaurant for failing to meet safety standards.
Read more: http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/18-injured-in-gas-explos...
The Moscow Times
Mar 2, 2012