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October 17, 2019

Officials eye explosion at California fuel site after quake

  • The earthquake struck about 15 miles southeast of the NuStar Energy fuel storage facility in the San Francisco Bay Area.
  • By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ
    Associated Press

    SAN FRANCISCO — Officials were trying to determine Wednesday if a 4.5 magnitude earthquake triggered an explosion at a fuel storage facility in the San Francisco Bay Area that started a fire and kept thousands of people in their homes for hours because of potentially unhealthy air.

    The earthquake struck about 15 miles southeast of the NuStar Energy fuel storage facility in Crockett. It occurred 15 hours before the fire Tuesday that consumed thousands of gallons of ethanol, a gasoline additive.


     
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