Posted on 10/16/2019 11:34:49 AM PDT by BenLurkin
The earthquake struck about 15 miles (24 kilometers) southeast from the NuStar Energy fuel storage facility in the Bay Area community of Crockett 15 hours before the Tuesday fire that consumed thousands of gallons (liters) of fuel. Aftershocks in the same area were still being felt Wednesday, including one with a 3.4 magnitude.
State and local inspectors were investigating the fire that shut down the facility, which according to the company has 24 tanks capable of holding more than 3 million barrels of different kinds of fuels. The seven-hour blaze erupted in towering, stubborn flames Tuesday afternoon at the facility in Crockett, about 30 miles (50 kilometers) northeast of downtown San Francisco.
A firefighter was injured and was treated at a hospital, said Contra Costa Fire Department spokesman Steve Hill, who had no details about the firefighter’s injuries. Randy Sawyer, Contra Costa County’s chief environmental health and hazardous materials officer, told KQED News that Tuesday’s earthquake caused malfunctions at two nearby oil refineries operated by Shell and Marathon oil.
(Excerpt) Read more at ktla.com ...
Well was it gallons or liters? There is a difference even if KTLA morons don’t know it.
They are also suspicious of the quake(s) causing a 10-inch water pipe break at SFO that flooded a contractors parking lot.
Lucky the tanks that went up were containing ethanol and not jet fuel which an adjacent tank was reported as containing.
California math
We need a 90 day Mandatory Waiting Period for Earthquakes so as to better prepare for the consequences.
So they can blame climate change no doubt.
Those tanks are literally sitting on the place where the continental shelf meets the other shelf of the Pacific Ocean. If you drive down to Rodeo out to the water there was a marker there.
Cartelfornia is going to have to outlaw gasoline and oil, now...
In order to counteract all the CO2 expulsion among other gasses and particulates released from this unexpected explosion Gov Newsom has ordered a state-wide blackout for the next 120 days..
DEAL WITH IT
Ethanol was burned in this fire....and it was pronounced by ‘
media’ to b e TOXIC.
But these same Liberals are pushing for 15% Ethanol in our fuel, higher than the current 10%.
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