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2015 Tianjin explosions

explosions in Tianjin on 12 August 2015
Event industrial_disaster Q20816071
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Key Facts

  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: Tianjin[1]
  • Country: People's Republic of China[2]
  • Location: Binhai New Area[3], Tianjin[4]
  • Language of work or name: English[5]
  • Point in time: August 12, 2015[6]
  • Has cause: spontaneous combustion[7], industrial fire[8], explosion[9], chain reaction[10]
  • Number of deaths: 129[11], 173[12]
  • Number of injured: 797[13]
  • Number of missing: 44[14]
  • Has effect: atmospheric dispersion[15]

Related Entities

People's Republic of China Tianjin

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  11. [11] ↑ . people.cn. society.people.com.cn. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [12] ↑ . Associated Press. theguardian.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  15. [15] ↑ . cen.acs.org. Retrieved . cen.acs.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.

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  1. 16w ago · Chalmd · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Number of missing → {'amount': '+44'}
    Point in time → +2015-08-12T00:00:00Z
    Instance of → industrial disaster
    Language of work or name → English
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