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The East Ohio Gas Company built a full-scale commercial liquid natural gas (LNG) plant in Cleveland, Ohio in 1940, just after a successful pilot plant was built by its sister company, Hope Natural Gas Company of West Virginia. This was the first such plant in the world.
October 20, 1944 – The Cleveland East Ohio Gas explosion: An LNG tank suffered a seam failure, leading to LNG vapors entering sewers. The vapors later exploded, causing 130 deaths, and, destroying of square mile of Cleveland, Ohio. December 15, 2007 – Geauga County, gas well explosion, [103]
September 10 – A gas explosion in Cleveland, Ohio killed one person and injured 50 others. [33] October 18 – The 20 inch "Big Inch" gas transmission pipeline exploded near Uniontown, Pennsylvania, causing a massive fire that burned five acres of cornfields, and opened an 18 foot deep crater. There were no injuries reported. [34]
A 16-inch (41 cm) natural gas pipeline ruptured under the stored ammonium perchlorate and added fuel to the later, larger explosions. There were seven detonations in total, the largest being the last. Two people were killed and hundreds injured. The largest explosion was estimated to be equivalent to 0.25 kilotons of TNT (1.0 TJ).
Cleveland East Ohio Gas explosion: Accident – explosion Cleveland, Ohio: $7,000,000-$15,000,000 129 1963 USS Thresher (SSN-593) Accident – submarine: Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Massachusetts: Deadliest submarine disaster in U.S. history. 128 1838 Steamship Pulaski disaster: Accident – shipwreck Off North Carolina: 128–135 1901
The New London School explosion occurred on March 18, 1937, when a natural gas leak caused an explosion, destroying the New London School of the city of New London, Texas. The disaster killed three hundred students and teachers. The Cleveland East Ohio Gas Explosion occurred on the afternoon of
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The gas leak was caused by gas being diverted into an older, defective gas main in the area. [62] April 29. In Edgewood, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Pittsburgh, a house was blown apart by an explosion of natural gas which leaked into the basement through a drain. One resident was killed and two others injured.