REUTERS, JUNE 23, 2020 MEXICO CITY – Mexican national oil company Pemex said on Tuesday that its Salina Cruz oil refinery, the country’s largest, was offline after a fire broke out that badly injured at least one worker following a major earthquake that struck nearby. The fire, which ignited where power generators and a boiler are located, was quickly extinguished, …
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Port Royal: The sunken pirate city in Jamaica
PortandTerminal.com, September 21, 2019 At the beginning of the 1690s, Port Royal was a big city in Jamaica, bustling with trade both legal and illegal. Close to important shipping routes, it was a waypoint for all in the Caribbean. Today though Port Royal is known to archaeologists as the “City that Sank”. On June 7th 1692 at 11:43 am three earthquakes …
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A magnitude 7.1 earthquake rocked California on Friday night, just a day after the region was hit with a 6.4 earthquake on the Fourth of July. PortandTerminal.com, July 6, 2019 LOS ANGELES, CA – Southern California was hit by its largest earthquake in two decades Friday, a 7.1-magnitude tremor that rattled residents less than 48 hours after another quake struck …
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