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1,950 – Halifax Explosion, (Nova Scotia, Canada 1917) The Halifax Explosion occurred on Thursday, December 6, 1917, when the city of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, was devastated by the huge detonation of the SS Mont-Blanc, a French cargo ship, fully loaded with wartime explosives, which accidentally collided with the Norwegian SS Imo in "The Narrows" section of the Halifax Harbour. About 2,000 people were killed by debris, fires, or collapsed buildings and it is estimated that over 9,000 people were injured.[2] The Halifax Explosion remains the world's largest man-made accidental explosion.At 8:40 in the morning, the SS Mont-Blanc, chartered by the French government to carry munitions to Europe, collided with the unloaded Norwegian ship Imo, chartered by the Commission for Relief in Belgium to carry relief supplies. Mont-Blanc caught fire ten minutes after the collision and exploded about twenty-five minutes later (at 9:04:35 AM).[4] All buildings and structures covering nearly 2 square kilometres (500 acres) along the adjacent shore were obliterated, including those in the neighbouring communities of Richmond and Dartmouth.[2] The explosion caused a tsunami in the harbour and a pressure wave of air that snapped trees, bent iron rails, demolished buildings, grounded vessels, and carried fragments of the Mont-Blanc for kilometres.
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1,500 – Ammunition plant with facilities explode at Smederevo, outskirt of Belgrade, Serbia, June 8, 1941
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1,200 – Explosion of ammunition on the Chinese troopship "Kuang Yuang", near Kiukiang, China, October 16, 1926
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1,200 – Ammunition trucks explode near a train station (Cali, Colombia, 1956)
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1,121 – Japanese battleship Mutsu, at Hashirajima harbour, 1943 due to magazine explosion.
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1,100 – Lagos Armoury Explosion, (Lagos, Nigeria, 2002), many deaths were from drowning during the resulting panic
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1,007 – Ammunition transporter exploded in Hamont, Belgium, November 18, 1918
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843 – British dreadnought battleship HMS Vanguard (1909), propellant explosion, 1917
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800 – Bombay Docks Explosion (Bombay, India, 1944)
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738 – British pre-dreadnought battleship HMS Bulwark (1899), magazine explosion, 1914
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234 – PetroChina Chuandongbei natural gas field explosion, Guoqiao, Kai County, Chongqing, China, December 2003
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154 – Ryongchon disaster, (North Korea, 2004)
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150 – Jaʿār munitions factory explosion (Abyan Governorate, Yemen, March 28, 2011)
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140 – Sachangwan Molo tanker explosion Kenya 31 January 2009
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117 – 2007 Maputo arms depot explosion at Mozambican Armed Forces ammunition in Laulane, Mozambique on March 22, 2007.[citation needed]
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117 – Electrical transformer explosion, Dhaka, Bangladesh, June 3, 2010.
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100 – NNPC oil pipeline explosion, which blasted a primary school at Ijegun, Nigeria, May 15, 2008.
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98 – 8,800 gallons carrying fuel truck exploded and caught fire at Kagarko, Kaduna, Nigeria, March 28, 2007
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90 – A truck carrying 3,800 gallons of gasoline with six vehicles crashed and exploded at Nosratabad, Sistan and Baluchistan, Iran, June 20, 2004.
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60 – Truck explosion in Urumqi, Xinjiang Uygur, China, (September 9, 2000)
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32 – 2009 Viareggio derailment, a gas train explosion, Italy, 2009
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29 – Blast in ammunition depot in Albania, 2008
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27 – LNG liquefaction plant explosion, Skikda, Algeria. 19 January 2004.
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24 – Gas explosion in Ghislenghien, Belgium, July 30, 2004
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22 – Fireworks factory (Enschede, Netherlands, 2000)
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21 – Brazilian rocket explosion (Brazil, 2003)
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18 – Mihăileşti explosion (Romania, 2004)
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15 – BP Refinery, Isomerization Unit Explosion (killed 15 injured 180), Texas City, Texas USA March 23, 2005
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14 – 2008 Georgia sugar refinery explosion (Port Wentworth, Georgia, United States, 2008)
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13 - Munitions Dump explosion Evangelos Florakis Naval Base & Vassilikos power plant (, , July 11 2011)
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11 – Deepwater Horizon oil spill, (Gulf of Mexico, near the Missipippi River Delta, United States Of America, May 2010)
Floods -
26,000 – Banqiao Dam collapse, Henan Province, China, August 1975 The Banqiao Reservoir Dam (simplified Chinese: 板桥水库大坝; traditional Chinese: 板橋水庫大壩; pinyin: Bǎnqiáo Shuǐkù Dàbà) is a dam on the River Ru in Zhumadian Prefecture, Henan province, China. It infamously failed in 1975, causing more casualties than any other dam failure in history, and was subsequently rebuilt. The Banqiao dam and Shimantan Reservoir Dam (simplified Chinese: 石漫滩水库大坝; traditional Chinese: 石漫灘水庫大壩; pinyin: Shímàntān Shuǐkù Dàbà) are among 62 dams in Zhumadian Prefecture of China's Henan Province that failed catastrophically or were intentionally destroyed in 1975 during Typhoon Nina. The dam failure killed an estimated 171,000 people[citation needed]; 11 million people lost their homes. It also caused the sudden loss of 18 GW of power[citation needed] , the equivalent of roughly 9 very large modern coal fired power stations or about 20 nuclear reactors, equalling about 1/3 the peak demand on the UK National Grid.
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23,000 - Armero Flood, Town of Armero, Colombia, November 13, 1985 ( Armero tragedy)
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2,551 – North Sea flood of 1953, heavy storms caused devastation in the UK, Belgium and especially The Netherlands (where 1,835 people were killed)
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2,209 – Johnstown flood (dam break in Johnstown, Pennsylvania), 1889
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2,000 ca. – Vajont Dam collapse, Italy, 1963
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1,464 – New Orleans Flooding (New Orleans, Louisiana, Levee failure due to Hurricane Katrina, August 29, 2005.)
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941 – Iruka pond collapsed in Inuyama, Aichi, Japan, on May 14, 1868.
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488 – Mir Placalnizza dam failure and collapsed in Sgorigrad, Bulgaria on May 1, 1966.
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421 – Malpasset dam collapse, France, 1959
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375 – Levee of pond failure at Mitsubishi Osarizawa mine, Kazuno, northeastern Akita, Japan, 1936
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135 – Santa Catarina floods (Santa Catarina state, Brazil, 2008)
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99 – Situ Gintung dam failure, Indonesia, 2009
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75 – 2009 Sayano-Shushenskaya hydro accident
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35 – 2010–2011 Queensland floods following torrential rain, plus 9 missing, Australia, December 2010 – January 2011
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