Here in CT a proposed LNG terminal 11 miles offshore is meeting fierce and futile resistance. Futile because the terminal is in NY state waters... Doesn't stop people from complaining though. Yes, it's 11 miles offshore and they are concerned about terrorism, supposedly. Like the blast radius would be 11 miles.
Yes, but if they put it 13.1 miles out, it's international waters, IIRC.
Actually, when LNG goes back to a gas it expands to several hundred times its liquid volume.
In Cleveland in the 40's an East Ohio Gas storage terminal sprung a leak and the resuling explosion destroyed over 100 square blocks, burned down over 1,000 houses on the east side, and melted over 60 cars.
It can also travel miles through the air before reaching the inevitable spark. A pretty good thriller by Basil Jackson titled "The Night Manhattan Burned" is a page -turner, hehehe.