On August 12, 2015, a series of catastrophic explosions devastated the Binhai New Area in Tianjin, China. The disaster began with a fire at a Ruihai Logistics warehouse illegally storing over 11,000 tons of hazardous goods. As firefighters arrived to battle the blaze, the heat caused a container of dry nitrocellulose to spontaneously ignite, triggering the detonation of 800 tons of ammonium nitrate. The second blast was equivalent to 21 tons of TNT and registered as a 2.3 magnitude earthquake. I

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