From: ahk@chinet.com

Sancho Panza   wrote:
>On 5/15/2014 9:05 AM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:
>> For those of you on Usenet so enamored of the safety record of pipelines
>> for transportation of oil, you may not want to read about last night's
>> disaster:
>>
>> A ruptured oil pipe near the suburb of Glendale has spilled about
>> 10,000 gallons of crude oil onto streets; initial reports had the spill
>> at 50,000 gallons. The leak from a 20 inch pipe was reported as 12:15
>> am. Thursay, May 15, 2014. It was shut off remotely within 10 minutes of
>> firemen arriving. Despite the shut off, the spill continued for at least
>> 45 minutes.
>>
>> A strip club had to be evacuated.
>>
>> The pipe was under pressure; oil was seen shooting 20 feet into the sky.
>>
>> The oil came from Bakersfield. It's a pumping transfer station sending
>> oil to a storage facility near Bakersfield.
>>
>Seeing as how no cause has yet been offered and the proximity of the
>rupture to the San Andreas Fault, seismic activity is not out of the
>question.

Pipelines aren't planned to be compatible with know, significant seismic
activity? That gives me every confidence about pipelines.

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