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Tacoa Disaster
The Tacoa disaster (Spanish language, Spanish: ''tragedia de Tacoa'') occurred on December 19, 1982 as a result of a fuel oil tank fire on the premises of the Ricardo Zuloaga Thermal power station, thermal power plant, owned by Electricidad de Caracas and located in Tacoa, a seaside village and an area of Vargas Municipality, Vargas, Venezuela. There were 150 or more victims, amongst them many firemen, journalists and bystanders. All but two (who were killed in the initial tank explosion) fell as a result of a massive boilover from one of the affected tanks. It is the deadliest industrial accident ever occurred in Venezuela and the deadliest tank fire ever occurred worldwide. The accident At dawn, on Sunday, December 19, 1982, the sea-going tanker ''Murachi'' belonging to Maraven, a subsidiary of PDVSA, was moored off the Ricardo Zuloaga power plant in Tacoa and about to unload 15,000 tons of fuel oil, which would be used as fuel for power production. Two plant operators clim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South America
South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a considerably smaller portion in the Northern Hemisphere. It can also be described as the southern Subregion#Americas, subregion of the Americas. South America is bordered on the west by the Pacific Ocean, on the north and east by the Atlantic Ocean, and to the south by the Drake Passage; North America and the Caribbean Sea lie to the northwest. The continent includes twelve sovereign states: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay, and Venezuela; two dependent territory, dependent territories: the Falkland Islands and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands; and one administrative division, internal territory: French Guiana. The Dutch Caribbean ABC islands (Leeward Antilles), ABC islands (Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao) and Trinidad and Tobago are geologically located on the South-American continental shel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
