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An explosion alleged to have been caused by a welding accident at the Marcelino Ugalde School. Most of the dead were children. [9] 16 November 1980 Thailand: Dusit District, Bangkok: 60 400 A series of explosions at an army munitions depot. [10] 25 November 1980 Turkey: Danaciobasi, Kırıkkale Province: 105 unknown Explosion at an engagement ...
The main explosion, involving more than 400 tons of propellant in containers, destroyed hundreds of houses within a few kilometres from the depot and broke windows in cars on the Tirana-Durrës highway. A large fire caused a series of smaller but powerful explosions that continued until 2 a.m. the next day.
Most Shocking is an American reality television series that originally aired on Court TV and later its successor truTV. The series premiered on October 4, 2006 and ended on November 10, 2010, with a total of 89 episodes over the course of 7 seasons.
Destroyed in Seconds is an American television series that premiered on Discovery Channel on August 21, 2008. [2]Hosted by Ron Pitts, it features video segments of various things being destroyed fairly quickly (hence, "in seconds") such as planes crashing, explosions, sinkholes, boats crashing, fires, race car incidents, floods, factories, etc.
An episode of Shockwave features the explosion. The TLC television special World's Most Powerful Explosions feature the explosion. [16] The History Channel television special Engineering Disasters features the explosion. [17] Season 6 Episode 4 "Memphis Bridge of Doom" of Engineering Catastrophes features an analysis of the explosion and its ...
A sub-series labelled The Accident Files begain airing in 2018 and, as of 2023, has aired five seasons consisting of ten episodes per series. This sub-series consists entirely of summarized versions of air disasters previously investigated in the primary Mayday series, but combined based on similarities between the incidents, such as fires or ...
Castle Bravo is the sixth largest nuclear explosion in history, exceeded by the Soviet tests of Tsar Bomba at approximately 50 Mt, Test 219 at 24.2 Mt, and three other (Test 147, Test 173 and Test 174) ≈20 Mt Soviet tests in 1962 at Novaya Zemlya.
A series of explosions and fires on the Piper Alpha, an oil platform 110 miles off the coast of Scotland that had been converted to natural gas production, results in the deaths of 167 people and the collapse of the platform. Note: Only episode with the opening narration being "sequence of critical events, locked in time".