Natural Disasters in Iowa: Iowa Flood of 2008, June 2008 Midwest Floods, Mid-December 2007 North American Winter Storms, 2007 Midwest Flooding

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 51. Chapters: 1972 Aldershot Bombing, 1993 Bishopsgate bombing, 1994 London Israeli Embassy attack, 1996 Docklands bombing, 1996 Manchester bombing, 2001 Ealing bombing, 2001 Humber Refinery explosion, 2012 Oldham explosion, Abbeystead disaster, Ashton-under-Lyne munitions explosion, Baltic Exchange, Barnbow, Birmingham pub bombings, Brighton hotel bombing, Buncefield fire, Deal barracks bombing, Downing Street mortar attack, Faversham explosives industry, Flixborough disaster, Great fire of Newcastle and Gateshead, Guildford pub bombings, Harrods bombing, Hickson & Welch, HMS Sidon (P259), Hyde Park and Regent's Park bombings, Kings Arms, Woolwich, London Hilton bombing, Loscoe, M62 coach bombing, National Shell Filling Factory, Chilwell, Oaks explosion, RAF Fauld explosion, Ronan Point, Silvertown explosion, Staples Corner, Tottenham Grammar School, Warrington bomb attacks. Excerpt: The Buncefield fire was a major conflagration caused by a series of explosions on 11 December 2005 at the Hertfordshire Oil Storage Terminal, an oil storage facility located near the M1 motorway by Hemel Hempstead in Hertfordshire, England. The terminal was the fifth largest oil-products storage depot in the United Kingdom, with a capacity of about 60,000,000 imperial gallons (270 ML) of fuel. The terminal is owned by TOTAL UK Limited (60%) and Texaco (40%). The first and largest explosion occurred at 06:01 UTC near tank 912, which led to further explosions which eventually overwhelmed 20 large storage tanks. The emergency services announced a major emergency at 06:08 and a fire fighting effort began. The cause of the explosion seems to have been a fuel-air explosion of unusually high strength. The British Geological Survey monitored the event, which measured 2.4 on the Richter scale. News reports described the incident as the biggest of its kind in peacetime Europe and certainly the biggest such explosion in the United Kingdom since the 1974 Flixborough disaster. The flames had been extinguished by the afternoon of 13 December 2005. However, one storage tank re-ignited that evening, which the fire-fighters left to burn rather than attempt to extinguish it again. The Health Protection Agency and the Major Incident Investigation Board provided advice to prevent incidents such as these in the future. The primary need is for safety measures to be in place to prevent fuel from exiting the tanks in which it is stored. Added safety measures are needed for when fuel does escape, mainly to prevent it forming a flammable vapour and stop pollutants from poisoning the environment. The fire seen from a vantage point between the Northgate and 3Com Corporation buildingsThe first and largest explosion occurred at 06:01 UTC on Sunday, 11 December 2005 near container 912. Further explosions followed which eventually overwhelmed 20 large storage tanks. From all accounts, it seems to