San Juanico: Mexico's Deadliest Industrial Disaster | A Short Documentary | Fascinating Horror

This short documentary tells the story of the San Juanico Disaster: the catastrophic explosion of a Liquid Petroleum Gas storage facility in San Juanico, Mexico in 1984...

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CHAPTERS: 🔖
► 00:00 - Intro
► 00:49 - LPG in San Juanico
► 04:28 - The San Juanico Disaster
► 11:38 - Investigations and Aftermath
► 14:22 - Recovery and the Memorial Park

MUSIC: 🎵
► "Glass Pond" by Public Memory

SOURCES: 📑
► "State and community during the aftermath of Mexico City's November 19, 1984 Gas Explosion" by Kirsten Johnson, published by FMHI Publications, June 1985. Available via: https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/cgi/vi...
► "Analysis of the LPG incident in San Juan Ixhuatepec, Mexico City, 19 November 1984" by C.M Pietersen, published by TNO, May 1985. Available via: https://web.archive.org/web/202308140...
► "The tragedy of San Juanico—the most severe LPG disaster in history" by G Arturson, published by Science Direct, April 1987. Link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...
► "The tragedy of San Juanico: A hell on earth" by Carlos Alvarez, published by La Prensa, November 2023. Link: https://www.la-prensa.com.mx/archivos...
► "Mexico City's Petroleos Mexicanos Explosion: Disaster Management and Air Medical Transport" by Emmanual Urquieta and Joseph Varon, published by Air Medical Journal, December 2014. Available via: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...
► "San Juan Ixhuatepec remembers one of world’s worst industrial disasters" published by Mexico News Daily, November 2019. Link: https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/one-...

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