Salty Brine Beach

A build-up of hydrogen gas in a forgotten power cable is the probable cause of a mysterious explosion that happened earlier this month at a Rhode Island beach. Officials said the long abandoned cable had originally been laid by the U...

A Rhode Island beach is open again after a woman was injured by a mysterious explosion.

A Rhode Island beach has been evacuated as authorities investigate reports from beachgoers of a boom in the sand that knocked a woman into a rock wall. State Department of Environmental Management spokeswoman Rayne Maguire tells the Providence Journal the woman was taken to a hospital from Salty Brine beach in Narragansett after the incident around 11 a...