1969 Santa Barbara oil spill

Cuándo

28 ene 1969

Tipo

Evento

Coordenadas

34.33° N, 119.61° W

Situado en: coordinates of the event it links, 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill.

1969 Santa Barbara oil spill: A blowout on Union Oil's Platform A spills 80,000 to 100,000 barrels of crude oil into a channel and onto the beaches of Santa Barbara County in Southern California; on February 5 the oil spill closes Santa Barbara's harbor. The incident inspires Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson to organize the first Earth Day in 1970.

Environmental disaster in California, United States

The Santa Barbara oil spill occurred in January and February 1969 in the Santa Barbara Channel, near the city of Santa Barbara in Southern California. It was the largest oil spill in United States waters at the time. It remains the largest oil spill to have occurred in the waters off California.

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