Category Gas Explosion Alert

Massive gas storage blasts kill 11, mostly children in Afghanistan

At least 11 people, most of them children, were killed after a series of explosion at an Afghan gas storage facility triggered a fire in a nearby settlement for displaced people, officials said on Tuesday.   It was not immediately…

Typhoon Goni Hammering Japan’s Ryukyu Islands; Deadly Impacts in the Philippines

Infrared Satellite: Goni Typhoon Goni was pounding Japan’s southern Ryukyu Islands as of Sunday evening Japanese time (Sunday morning U.S. time). Wind have gusted up to 97 mph at the airport on Ishigakijima Island as of this writing. This island…

Coal mine explosion kills at least 10; 40 missing after landslide in China

At least 10 people have been killed and 40 others missing in two separate accidents at coal mines in China, state media reported today.   Ten people were killed in a gas outburst at a coal mine in southwest China’s…