Sentence examples for serious explosion from inspiring English sources

In any case, said Paul Richards, a seismologist at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, N.Y., it was "a serious explosion".

The Paris chief prosecutor, François Molins, said that there might have been a "very serious explosion" if the fireman had not intervened in time.

Every time there is a serious explosion at a nuclear power plant people within a large radius of the site have to be evacuated for long periods of time, or indefinitely, as was the case with Chernobyl.

This paper describes the investigation of the cause of a serious explosion in an air separation unit in Bintulu (Malaysia) on 25 December 1997.

This paper summarizes the investigation of a serious explosion, which shattered the chemical facility of a chlorine/alkaline plant in Northern Germany in 1981.

Hydrogen has proven notoriously difficult to store in sufficient quantities without placing it under enormous pressure, something that greatly adds to the weight of a vehicle and adds a serious explosion hazard.

Meltdowns still in progress have already taken place in several sites along with serious explosions.

Despite BP's insistence that it follows high safety standards, in 2008 and 2009, BP had more issues with 3 oil pipelines in Alaska that were ruptured, clogged or could have caused serious explosions.

The water barriers' poor performances in preventing underground explosions have been evidenced by a number of serious mine explosion accidents in Chinese coal mines.

This is probably one of the most serious dust explosion catastrophes known apart from some very major coal dust explosion disasters in coal mines.

This caused an extremely serious gas explosion with 78 fatalities and 114 injuries, which received widespread attention from the industry.