[Danae]

That’s what I am asking.

How often do these things happen? Is this average? Above average? Who tracks that kind of data?

[mnehring]

Here is a good way to see the trends in news reports on pipeline explosions.

http://news.google.com/archivesearch?pz=1&cf=all&ned=us&hl=en&as_scoring=r&as_maxm=5&q=pipeline+explosion&as_qdr=a&as_drrb=q&as_mind=9&as_minm=5&cf=all&as_maxd=20&sugg=d&sa=N&lnav=d2&as_ldate=2000&as_hdate=2000&ldrange=1977%2C1990&hdrange=2002%2C2009

The chart displayed shows there actually was a big peak around 2000, then again in 2007. Doesn’t seem like 2010 is out of pattern. I wouldn’t read too much into the dropping numbers before 95 because of the fewer archived stories loaded on the web.

[Xenalyte]

HC has the stats, but I believe that in Texas, we have 15 to 20 a year.