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Texas plant expolsion
A spokesman for the Texas Department of Public Safety, D.L. Wilson, told Reuters the blast had probably caused "hundreds of casualties" and damaged many homes. He added that a nearby nursing home had collapsed from the explosion and that people were believed trapped inside. emergency, danger, technological catastrophe, disaster, catastrophe, explosionGiant Lousiana sinkhole situation
Sinkhole Geologist: Deeper oil and gas deposits may be coming up from below Big Hum reservoir - “Nobody in the world has ever faced a situation like this, that’s the reality ( Read more... )Hurricane Sandy
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/31/us/hurricane-sandy-barrels-region-leaving-battered-path.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 hurricane, emergency, natural disasterHundreds of millions without power in India
"Hundreds of millions of people have been left without electricity in northern and eastern India after a massive power breakdown ( Read more... )Oilpocalypse
Thu May 13, 2010 at 05:48:48 PM PDT
"NPR's report suggests that the volume of crud spewing out of the mangled well-head in the Gulf of Mexico is not 5,000 barrels a day, as previously reported, but on order of 50,000." emergency, disaster, catastrophe