Explosions on the rise

[Kojima]

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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.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://tribune.com.pk/story/2000915/1-one-killed-15-injured-gas-ex...

One killed, 15 injured in gas explosion in Lahore

Published: June 27, 2019

LAHORE: 

A man was killed while 15 others were injured after an explosion ripped through a bakery due to gas leakage in the area of Ichra.

All injured were shifted to a hospital where two people are reported to be in critical condition. Police officials said that a blast occurred in the morning in a private bakery located in Ferozepur Road due to gas leakage.

As a result, the entire bakery was destroyed in the explosion. Police and Rescue teams reached the spot and shifted the injured to hospital in critical condition.

[Starr DiGiacomo]

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/europe/suspected-gas-line-explosion-vi...

Suspected gas line explosion in Vienna seriously injures at least two people

June 26, 2019, 1:11 PM EDT

At least one building partially collapsed due to the late-afternoon blast in Austria's capital.

A suspected gas-line explosion injured at least 12 people, two of them seriously, and partially collapsed an apartment building in Vienna on Wednesday, police said.

The blast happened at 4:30 p.m. local time, on Pressgasse Street in the center of the Austrian capital, authorities said.

The aftermath of partial building collapse in Vienna, Austria, on June 26, 2019.Erich Ulrich via Reuters

"In explosion in the Pressgasse, at least 4 people were seriously injured, and multiple people lightly," according to an initial statement by Vienna police. "The area is widely closed off. Please stay away!"

That injury figure was later adjusted to two serious injuries and 10 with minor wounds, police said.

At least 22 apartments, with 44 residents registered to those units, have been damaged by the explosion, officials said. More than 100 firefighters and 50 officers are on the scene and two buildings have been evacuated, police said.

The explosion came as the city was already dealing with unseasonably hot weather. The mercury soared to the 95 in Vienna on Wednesday and was expected to be in the 90s again on Thursday.

“Vienna is going through a crazy heat wave right now, so there's already been sort of an emergency response in other areas so it was already a crazy day before this happened," neighborhood resident Leora Courtney-Wolfman told NBC News.

Courtney-Wolfman, a 34-year-old Canadian expatriate, was on her way home to a flat about 200 yards from the blast when the neighborhood shook.

“Just the fact that I could have been there. We had guests visiting with us just last week and they walked up and down that street," she said.

[M. Difato]

Huge explosion at Philadelphia oil refinery shakes homes in N.J.

https://www.nj.com/south/2019/06/huge-explosion-at-philadelphia-oil...

A large explosion at an oil refinery in South Philadelphia early Friday (June 21, 2019( shook homes across the Delaware River in New Jersey.

The blast occurred around 3:20 a.m. at the Philadelphia Energy Solutions Refinery on Passyunk Avenue, city officials said. No injuries have been reported, though the extent of the damage and the cause of the explosion is unclear. Residents in South Jersey and Delaware County, Pennsylvania reported feeling the explosion.

Earlier, a part of the Schuylkill Expressway (Interstate 76) was closed, but it has since been re-opened, the Philadelphia Office of Emergency Management said in a series of tweets.

Firefighters were still battling the blaze as of 7 a.m.

Residents in the surrounding area had been asked to stay in their homes but the shelter-in-place has been narrowed to to 26th Street to the west, Schuylkill Expressway to the north, Interstate 95 to the south, and 22nd Street to the east due to smoke and firefighting equipment in the area.

PES is the largest refinery on the Eastern seaboard. It produces about 335,000 barrels - 14 million gallons - of crude oil per day. It is comprised of two refineries - Girard Point and Point Breeze.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/21/us/philadelphia-oil-refinery-fir...

[Starr DiGiacomo]

https://www.koco.com/article/one-injured-in-pipeline-explosion-in-g...

One injured in pipeline explosion in Grady County, officials say

Updated: 12:55 PM CDT Jun 18, 2019

GRADY COUNTY, Okla. —

A person has been taken to a hospital after a natural gas pipeline explosion Tuesday in Grady County, according to officials with the Grady County Fire Department.

The explosion was reported in the area of County roads 2890 and 1420, east of Ninnekah.

Fire officials said the pipeline operator has been contacted and is in the process of shutting down the pipeline. There is no immediate danger to the public.

[Starr DiGiacomo]

https://www.thedrive.com/tech/28489/a-hydrogen-station-in-norway-bl...

A Hydrogen Station in Norway Blows Up, Truth is Among the Victims

In the fight against global warming, we need all the technologies and ideas we can get. What we don’t need are battery vs. fuel cell holy wars.

June 12, 2019

Regrettably, one of Norway’s three hydrogen fuel stations blew up on Monday (thankfully, without a loss of life or limb.) Even more regrettably, the incident puts (harrumph) new fire under the hard to understand hate campaign against a promising solution in the battle against global warming.

First, the facts. On Monday, 6/11/2019 at 5:40 pm local, the Uno-X hydrogen station in Sandvika in Bærum, Norway, exploded. Nobody was harmed, except for two people who received minor injuries when the airbags in their cars deployed – possibly triggered by the blast. Video here. The cause of the eruption is unknown, and under investigation. Norway’s major Aftenposten daily says it was “probably a hydrogen tank that exploded.” Even that isn’t 100% sure yet. 

For sure the incident is hard on the few owners of FCV vehicles in Norway and Europe. According to public data, some 160 hydrogen FCVs have been registered in Norway, 102 of them in the region served by the Uno-X station in Sandvika. The remaining 52 also are out of hydrogen gas, because Uno-X closed all its three hydrogen stations it has in Norw... Uno-X is a chain of discount gas stations. Their sales of gasoline and diesel remain unaffected.

So far, the biggest impact of the explosion is on Norway’s FCV drivers, who don’t know where to fuel-up. According to media reports, Toyota will supply its Norwegian FCV customers with loaners. The only companies selling FCVs in Norway are Toyota and Hyundai, and the enthusiasm for their hydrogen-powered cars is limited. Toyota sold all of 7 (seven) FCV Mirai in Norway this year, Hyundai is ahead of Toyota with 21 (twenty-one) FCVs sold since January 1st. Both OEMs are reported to have stopped their FCV sales – in Norway.

The facts did not stop Elon Musk fanzine Electrek from running this headline:

“Hydrogen station explodes, Toyota halts sales of fuel cell cars, is this the end?”

Along with Insideevs and Cleantechnica, Electrek is at the forefront of Tesla’s crusade against allegedly biased and misleading reporting. Their article is a lesson on how to do misleading. It comes with one of the most stupid infographics around, attempting to show the superiority of battery over fuel-cell with the “electric moter” (sic) of a car directly powered from sunshine. 

The story itself banks on the common ADD sufferer not reading beyond the headline, and on Twitter doing the dirty work, which it does.

I called Toyota’s Tokyo HQ, and their spokesperson Kayo Doi confirmed that “Toyota Norway has temporarily suspended Mirai deliveries as refueling is currently not possible in the country. Toyota Norway will support any inconvenienced Mirai owner with the loan of another vehicle should they need it.” As far as halting sales of fuel cell cars go, Ms. Doi told me that sales of their Mirai FCV in other markets are unaffected. Which also should answer whether “this is the end.” It is not.

[Starr DiGiacomo]

http://www.italianinsider.it/?q=node/8197

At least 9 injured in gas explosion near Rome

INSIDER NEWSDESK

The explosion destroyed the facade of the municipality building, Photo credit: ANSA

11 June 2019

ROME - A gas explosion at a building housing the town hall of Rocca di Papa, 25 kilometres southeast of Rome, left at least nine people injured, including mayor Emanuele Crestini, who has extensive burns to the face and arms, ANSA reported Monday.

The explosion also affected nearby nursery school Leonida Montanari, leaving three children injured. One of them was taken to a hospital with severe injuries, but his life is not in danger, health commissioner Alessio D'Amato said in a statement.

Initial information from the fire brigade suggested that the explosion occurred due to a gas leaking caused by workers who chopped through a gas main in the street. The explosion destroyed the facade of the municipality building and threw glass and masonry toward the nursery school, which injured the children.

After the incident, residents were evacuated and the area was sealed off, sources told the Italian news agency.

Still according to ANSA, prosecutors have opened a probe into ‘culpable disaster’ and culpable grievous bodily harm (GBH) against person or persons unknown.

Natural gas distributer Italgas issued a statement blaming a third party for the explosion, The Australian reported. The distributer has not revealed which company would have been responsible for the incident.

[Starr DiGiacomo]

https://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/one-killed-in...

One killed in explosion at NLC plant in TN

Press Trust of India  |  Neyveli(TN)  Last Updated at June 9, 2019 22:35 IST

One person was killed and two others seriously injured in an explosion at a thermal power unit of Neyveli Lignite Corporation (NLC) here Sunday, police said.

The NLC worker identified as Velmurugan of Periyakapankulam died after the safety valve of the second thermal power unit exploded, they said.

The injured have been admitted to the Neyveli government hospital, they added.

A case has been registered and investigation is on.

[Starr DiGiacomo]

https://www.myhighplains.com/news/pipeline-explosion-sw-of-dumas-sh...

Pipeline explosion SW of Dumas shuts down portion of FM 722

Pipeline has been shut down

Posted: Jun 06, 2019 09:52 PM CDT

Updated: Jun 06, 2019 10:41 PM CDT

Crews are responding to a pipeline explosion near the DCP Plant on FM 722 in Moore County.

According to the Moore County Sheriff's Office, deputies and the Dumas Fire Department responded to that pipeline explosion.

Officials said the line has been shut down but residual gas is still in the area.

Deputies have closed FM 722 from Stalwitz Rd. to FM 2589. They said the road may be closed for the next several hours.

No injuries were reported.

[Juan F Martinez]

2 missing, 20 + injured as massive blasts hit TNT plant in Russia’s Dzerzhinsk city Published 1 Jun, 2019

Two people are missing and at least 20 were injured when three large blasts rocked a TNT plant in Dzerzhinsk in Central Russia. The shockwave damaged several buildings, and a huge plume of smoke is hovering over the city.

The blasts were so powerful that people even heard them in Bogorodsk, another city, some 15 km away. Meanwhile, residents in Dzershinsk saw large plumes of grey smoke rising above the city streets. Witnesses said that the shockwave from the explosions shattered windows in nearby buildings.

This is not the first time explosions had happened at the same TNT-maker. On April 4, a blast brought down one of its one-story structures. It took an hour to put down the fire, and, luckily, no one got hurt that day. A much deadlier explosion occurred in the plant in August, when five of its workers were killed.

https://www.rt.com/news/460800-blast-hits-explosives-plant-russia/

[Starr DiGiacomo]

https://www.wearecentralpa.com/news/house-explosion-fire-in-redbank...

House explosion, fire in Redbank Township injures one, causes over $1 million in damages

Updated: May 30, 2019 05:03 PM EDT

REDBANK TOWNSHIP, CLARION COUNTY, Pa. (WTAJ) -- One person was injured after a house explosion and fire on Pine Run Road in Redbank Township Tuesday. 

Crews investigated the incident that occurred on May 28 around 8 p.m. The victim, Donna Kemmer, 68, of Mayport, Pa., was in bed at the single story home when she heard a loud explosion and found herself buried under the residential structure wall, according to reports.

Kemmer was able to get free from the rubble and went to a neighbor for assistance. 

Officials have determined that the cause of the fire was due to migrating natural gas in the basement. 

The structure with a garage and greenhouse are a total loss, with estimated damage between $1.5 and $2 million.

The fire has been ruled accidental and the victim was transported from the scene.