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The United States Geological Survey recorded the explosion as a 2.1-magnitude tremor. [40] [41] The blast was heard in nearby Hillsboro, Waxahachie, DeSoto, and as far north as Arlington. Windows were blown out in Abbott, 7 miles (11 km) NNE of West. [42] Texas Governor Rick Perry issued a statement on the evening of April 17:
Not long after the explosion and the other accidents at Texas City in 2005, however, BP's image in the U.S. was further tarnished by the near-sinking of the semi-submersible oil platform Thunder Horse PDQ in July of the same year [167] and, more crucially, in March 2006 when an oil pipeline spill was discovered in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, while ...
Nitro is a city in Kanawha and Putnam counties in the U.S. state of West Virginia. It takes its name from a World War I era nitrocellulose plant. The population was 6,618 according to the 2020 census. [ 2 ]
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The 1947 Texas City disaster was an industrial accident that occurred on April 16, 1947, in the port of Texas City, Texas, United States, located in Galveston Bay. It was the deadliest industrial accident in U.S. history and one of history's largest non-nuclear explosions .
A chemical plant explosion and fire sparked a large shelter-in-place order in Texas. Smoke and flames engulfed the chemical plant on FM 1127 in Shepherd on Wednesday morning, San Jacinto County ...
Thick black smoke was seen rising into the air after an explosion triggered a large fire at a chemical plant in Shepherd, Texas, on Wednesday morning (8 November). San Jacinto County Office of ...
East Nitro (the United States) Show map of the United States Coordinates: 38°23′59″N 81°50′10″W / 38.39972°N 81.83611°W / 38.39972; -81