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2007 Earthquake in Japan damages nuclear power plan releasing 300 gallons of radioactive water
1994 Largest milkshake (1,955 gallons of chocolate-Nelspruit South Africa) 1992 Mobil Oil tug with 12,000 gallons of oil run aground in Arthur Kill 1989 Worst U.S. oil spill, Exxon's Valdez spills 11.3 mil gallons off Alaska 1989 Exxon Houston runs aground in Hawaii, spills 117,000 gallons of oil 1988 Barge sinks near Anacortes, WA, spills 70,000 gallons of oil 1988 Ashland Oil storage tank spills 3.8 million gallons, Penn 1985 Exploratory well at Ranger Tx, explodes spilling 6.3 m gallons of oil 1984 Puerto Rican tanker, San Francisco explodes spilling 2 million gallons of oil as ship caught fire 1984 Triangle Oil Corp, above-ground storage tank at Jacksonville Fla, spills 2.5 m gallons of oil burned after lightning sparked a fire 1984 Alvenus tanker at Cameron La, spills 2.8 million gallons of oil 1984 Mobil oil tanker spills 200,000 gallons into Columbia River 1982 Arkas tanker at Montz La, spills 1.47 million gallons of oil 1981 Largest Jell-O made (9,246 gallons of watermelon-flavor) in Brisbane 1981 Olympic Glory tanker at Galveston Bay, Texas, spills 1 million gallons of oil in a ship collision 1980 Georgia tanker at Pilottown La, spills 1.3 million gallons of oil after an anchor chain caused a ship to leak 1979 Tanker Burmah Agate off Galveston Bay, Texas, spills 10.7 m gallons of oil, in US's worst oil spill disaster 1978 Amoco Cadiz tanker spills 1.6 mil gallons of oil off French coast 1977 Oil tanker explosion west of Honolulu spills 31 million gallons 1976 Argo Merchant tanker off Massachusetts' SE coast, spills 7.6 m gallons of crude when ship ran aground 1919 2 million gallons of molasses flood Boston MA, drowning 21 |
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