Industrial Accident in Vrbětice (2014-12-06)

Description


Activation time (UTC): 2014-12-06 11:00:00
Event time (UTC): 2014-12-03 01:15:00
Event type: Industrial accident

Activation reason:
A series of blasts took place on Wednesday (3.12.2014) morning in the munitions depot at Vrbětice in south Moravia, which was destroyed in mid-October by a devastating explosion. Villages in the close vicinity of the munitions store have had to be evacuated for safety reasons and clean-up work at the site had to be interrupted.

Reference products: 2
Delineation products: 1
Grading products: 1

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Resources

Name Format Description Link
61 https://emergency.copernicus.eu/EMSR113

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  • emergency-management
  • emergency
  • copernicus-service
  • industrial-accident
  • copernicus
  • copernicus-emergency-management-service-rapid-mapping-activation
  • emsr113
  • czech-republic
  • cems
  • copernicus-emergency-management-service
  • rapid-mapping
  • mapping
  • cze
  • copernicus-ems

Topics

  • REGI
  • TECH

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