quarta-feira, setembro 11, 2024
O Desastre Ferroviário de Alcafache foi há trinta e nove anos...
Postado por Fernando Martins às 00:39 0 bocas
Marcadores: comboio, desastre, desastre ferroviário, Desastre Ferroviário de Alcafache, linha da Beira Alta
quarta-feira, julho 17, 2024
O voo TAM 3054 caiu há dezassete anos...
Postado por Fernando Martins às 00:17 0 bocas
Marcadores: aeronáutica, Brasil, desastre, São Paulo, voo TAM 3054
segunda-feira, maio 06, 2024
O dirigível Hindenburg caiu há 87 anos
domingo, abril 14, 2024
O Titanic acertou num iceberg há 112 anos
segunda-feira, fevereiro 26, 2024
A inundação de Buffalo Creek foi há 52 anos
(imagem daqui)
The Buffalo Creek flood was a disaster that occurred on February 26, 1972, when the Pittston Coal Company's coal slurry impoundment dam #3, located on a hillside in Logan County, West Virginia, burst, four days after having been declared "satisfactory" by a federal mine inspector.
The resulting flood unleashed approximately 132 million US gallons (500,000 cubic metres; 500 million litres) of black waste water, cresting over 30 feet (9.1 m) high, upon the residents of sixteen coal towns along Buffalo Creek Hollow. Out of a population of 5,000 people, 125 were killed, 1,121 were injured, and over 4,000 were left homeless. 507 houses were destroyed, in addition to 44 mobile homes and 30 businesses. The disaster destroyed or damaged homes in Saunders, Pardee, Lorado, Craneco, Lundale, Stowe, Crites, Latrobe, Robinette, Amherstdale, Becco, Fanco, Braeholm, Accoville, Crown and Kistler. In its legal filings, Pittston Coal referred to the accident as "an Act of God."
Dam #3, constructed of coarse mining refuse dumped into the Middle Fork of Buffalo Creek starting in 1968, failed first, following heavy rains. The water from dam #3 then overwhelmed dams #2 and #1. Dam #3 had been built on top of coal slurry sediment that had collected behind dams # 1 and #2, instead of on solid bedrock. Dam #3 was approximately 260 feet (79 m) above the town of Saunders when it failed.
Postado por Fernando Martins às 00:52 0 bocas
Marcadores: Buffalo Creek, desastre, desastre ambiental, inundação, Minas, USA
sábado, janeiro 27, 2024
As primeiras mortes de astronautas da NASA foram há 57 anos...
Da esquerda para a direita: Grissom, White e Chafee
- Apollo astronauts frequently aligned their spacecraft inertial navigation platforms and determined their positions relative to the Earth and Moon by sighting sets of stars with optical instruments. As a practical joke, the Apollo I crew named three of the stars in the Apollo catalog after themselves and introduced them into NASA documentation. Gamma Cassiopeiae became Navi – Ivan (Gus Grissom's middle name) spelled backwards, Iota Ursae Majoris became Dnoces – "Second" spelled backwards, for Edward H. White II, and Gamma Velorum became Regor – Roger (Chaffee) spelled backwards. These names quickly stuck after the Apollo I accident and were regularly used by later Apollo crews.
Postado por Fernando Martins às 00:57 0 bocas
Marcadores: Apollo I, astronautas, desastre, Ed White, estrelas, NASA, Roger Chaffee, Virgil Grissom
terça-feira, novembro 28, 2023
O desastre de avião que dizimou a equipa do Chapecoense foi há sete anos...
segunda-feira, setembro 11, 2023
O Desastre Ferroviário de Alcafache foi há trinta e oito anos...
Postado por Fernando Martins às 00:38 0 bocas
Marcadores: comboio, desastre, desastre ferroviário, Desastre Ferroviário de Alcafache, linha da Beira Alta
segunda-feira, julho 17, 2023
O voo TAM 3054 caiu, no Brasil, há dezasseis anos...
Postado por Fernando Martins às 16:00 0 bocas
Marcadores: aeronáutica, Brasil, desastre, São Paulo, voo TAM 3054
sexta-feira, abril 14, 2023
O Titanic foi atingido por um iceberg há 111 anos
domingo, fevereiro 26, 2023
A inundação de Buffalo Creek foi há 51 anos
(imagem daqui)
The Buffalo Creek flood was a disaster that occurred on February 26, 1972, when the Pittston Coal Company's coal slurry impoundment dam #3, located on a hillside in Logan County, West Virginia, burst, four days after having been declared "satisfactory" by a federal mine inspector.
The resulting flood unleashed approximately 132 million US gallons (500,000 cubic metres; 500 million litres) of black waste water, cresting over 30 feet (9.1 m) high, upon the residents of sixteen coal towns along Buffalo Creek Hollow. Out of a population of 5,000 people, 125 were killed, 1,121 were injured, and over 4,000 were left homeless. 507 houses were destroyed, in addition to 44 mobile homes and 30 businesses. The disaster destroyed or damaged homes in Saunders, Pardee, Lorado, Craneco, Lundale, Stowe, Crites, Latrobe, Robinette, Amherstdale, Becco, Fanco, Braeholm, Accoville, Crown and Kistler. In its legal filings, Pittston Coal referred to the accident as "an Act of God."
Dam #3, constructed of coarse mining refuse dumped into the Middle Fork of Buffalo Creek starting in 1968, failed first, following heavy rains. The water from dam #3 then overwhelmed dams #2 and #1. Dam #3 had been built on top of coal slurry sediment that had collected behind dams # 1 and #2, instead of on solid bedrock. Dam #3 was approximately 260 feet (79 m) above the town of Saunders when it failed.
Postado por Fernando Martins às 00:51 0 bocas
Marcadores: Buffalo Creek, desastre, desastre ambiental, inundação, Minas, USA
sexta-feira, janeiro 27, 2023
As primeiras mortes de astronautas da NASA foram há 56 anos - e estrelas tiveram novos nomes...
- Apollo astronauts frequently aligned their spacecraft inertial navigation platforms and determined their positions relative to the Earth and Moon by sighting sets of stars with optical instruments. As a practical joke, the Apollo I crew named three of the stars in the Apollo catalog after themselves and introduced them into NASA documentation. Gamma Cassiopeiae became Navi – Ivan (Gus Grissom's middle name) spelled backwards, Iota Ursae Majoris became Dnoces – "Second" spelled backwards, for Edward H. White II, and Gamma Velorum became Regor – Roger (Chaffee) spelled backwards. These names quickly stuck after the Apollo I accident and were regularly used by later Apollo crews.
Postado por Fernando Martins às 00:56 0 bocas
Marcadores: Apollo I, astronautas, desastre, Ed White, estrelas, NASA, Roger Chaffee, Virgil Grissom
segunda-feira, novembro 28, 2022
O desastre com o avião do Chapecoense foi há seis anos...
domingo, setembro 11, 2022
O Desastre Ferroviário de Alcafache foi há 37 anos...
Postado por Fernando Martins às 00:37 0 bocas
Marcadores: comboio, desastre, desastre ferroviário, Desastre Ferroviário de Alcafache, linha da Beira Alta