Both pipelines experienced a sudden drop in pressure Monday morning.
, the second blast was stronger than the first and was the equivalent of a magnitude-2.3 earthquake and seismic stations in neaby Norway and Finland also registered the explosions.“Breakage of gas pipelines is extremely rare”,
. “Therefore we see reason to raise the preparedness level as a result of the incidents we have seen over the past 24 hours.”released footage on Twitter that shows a swirling mass of methane bubbling up onto the surface of the Baltic Sea.
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