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1. 806 relations: Aarhus, Aba, Nigeria, Abay District, Karaganda Region, Abbeystead disaster, ABC News (United States), Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Maryland, Aberkenfig, Abule Egba, Abule-Ado explosion, Accra, Admiralty (United Kingdom), African Americans, Afyonkarahisar, Agatu, Agence France-Presse, Ahmedabad, Ahvaz, Akkar District, Al-Muslimiyah, Alabama, Alang, Alcanar, Allegheny Arsenal, Allentown, Pennsylvania, Allerton Bywater, Allerton Bywater colliery explosion, Alum Chine explosion, American Civil War, American Civil War prison camps, Ammonium nitrate, Ammonium sulfate, Anacortes, Washington, Ancona, Antonov An-12, Apapa, Apeatse, AquaDom, Arkhangelsk, Army Recruit Training Centre, Arnasco, Arzamas, Arzamas train disaster, Associated Press, Astrakhan, Atlantic Ocean, Avonmouth explosion, İzmir, Baghdad, Bahawalpur, ... Expand index (756 more) »

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Aarhus

Aarhus (officially spelled Århus from 1948 until 1 January 2011) is the second-largest city in Denmark and the seat of Aarhus Municipality.

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Aba, Nigeria

Aba is a city in southeastern Nigeria and the commercial centre of Abia State.

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Abay District, Karaganda Region

Abay District (Абай ауданы, Abai audany) is a district of Karaganda Region in central Kazakhstan.

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Abbeystead disaster

The Abbeystead disaster occurred on the evening of 23 May 1984 when a methane gas explosion destroyed a waterworks' valve house at Abbeystead, Lancashire, England, killing 16 people.

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ABC News (United States)

ABC News is the news division of the American television network ABC.

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Aberdeen

Aberdeen (Aiberdeen,; Obar Dheathain; Aberdonia) is a city in North East Scotland, and is the third most populous Scottish city.

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Aberdeen, Maryland

Aberdeen is a city located in Harford County, Maryland, United States, northeast of Baltimore.

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Aberkenfig

Aberkenfig (Abercynffig, meaning "mouth of the Kenfig" (stream)) is a village located in the County Borough of Bridgend, Wales to the north of Bridgend town.

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Abule Egba

Abule Egba is a neighborhood in Lagos, Nigeria.

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Abule-Ado explosion

The Abule-Ado explosion was an accidental explosion and fire that occurred in the Abule-Ado area around Festac Town, Amuwo Odofin Local Government Area, Lagos State, Nigeria.

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Accra

Accra (Ga or Gaga; Nkran; Ewe: Gɛ; Ankara) is the capital and largest city of Ghana, located on the southern coast at the Gulf of Guinea, which is part of the Atlantic Ocean.

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Admiralty (United Kingdom)

The Admiralty was a department of the Government of the United Kingdom responsible for the command of the Royal Navy until 1964, historically under its titular head, the Lord High Admiral – one of the Great Officers of State.

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African Americans

African Americans, also known as Black Americans or Afro-Americans, are an ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from any of the Black racial groups of Africa.

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Afyonkarahisar

Afyonkarahisar (afyon 'poppy, opium', kara 'black', hisar 'fortress') is a city in western Turkey.

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Agatu

Agatu is a Local Government Area of Benue State, North Central Nigeria.

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Agence France-Presse

Agence France-Presse (AFP) is a French international news agency headquartered in Paris, France.

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Ahmedabad

Ahmedabad (is the most populous city in the Indian state of Gujarat. It is the administrative headquarters of the Ahmedabad district and the seat of the Gujarat High Court. Ahmedabad's population of 5,570,585 (per the 2011 population census) makes it the fifth-most populous city in India, and the encompassing urban agglomeration population estimated at 6,357,693 is the seventh-most populous in India.

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Ahvaz

Ahvaz (اهواز) is a city in the Central District of Ahvaz County, Khuzestan province, Iran.

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Akkar District

Akkar District (قضاء عكار) is the only district in Akkar Governorate, Lebanon.

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Al-Muslimiyah

Al-Muslimiyah (المسلمية, also spelled Muslimiyeh, Moslemiye, Msalamiyyah or al-Musalmiya), commonly known as Mouslimié, is a village in northern Syria, administratively part of the Mount Simeon District of the Aleppo Governorate, located north of Aleppo.

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Alabama

Alabama is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States.

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Alang

Alang is a census town in Bhavnagar district in the Indian state of Gujarat.

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Alcanar

Alcanar is a Spanish municipality of the Catalan comarca of Montsià, in the Tarragona province.

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Allegheny Arsenal

The Allegheny Arsenal, established in 1814, was an important supply and manufacturing center for the Union Army during the American Civil War, and the site of the single largest civilian disaster during the war.

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Allentown, Pennsylvania

Allentown (Pennsylvania Dutch: Allenschteddel, Allenschtadt, or Ellsdaun) is the county seat of Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Allerton Bywater

Allerton Bywater is a semi-rural village and civil parish in the south-east of the City of Leeds metropolitan borough in West Yorkshire, England.

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Allerton Bywater colliery explosion

The Allerton Bywater colliery explosion was a mining accident at the Allerton Bywater Colliery in Allerton Bywater, England, which occurred on Monday 10 March 1930, killing five miners and one pit pony.

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Alum Chine explosion

The Alum Chine explosion was a disaster that occurred in the Patapsco River near Baltimore, Maryland on March 7, 1913.

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American Civil War

The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union.

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American Civil War prison camps

Between 1861 and 1865, American Civil War prison camps were operated by the Union and the Confederacy to detain over 400,000 captured soldiers.

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Ammonium nitrate

Ammonium nitrate is a chemical compound with the formula.

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Ammonium sulfate

Ammonium sulfate (American English and international scientific usage; ammonium sulphate in British English); (NH4)2SO4, is an inorganic salt with a number of commercial uses.

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Anacortes, Washington

Anacortes is a city in Skagit County, Washington, United States.

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Ancona

Ancona (also) is a city and a seaport in the Marche region of Central Italy, with a population of around 101,997.

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Antonov An-12

The Antonov An-12 (Russian: Антонов Ан-12; NATO reporting name: Cub) is a four-engined turboprop transport aircraft designed in the Soviet Union.

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Apapa

Apapa is a Local Government Area in Lagos, located to the west of Lagos Island.

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Apeatse

Apiate (also known as Apeatse) is a mining village situated along the Tarkwa-Bogoso-Ayamfuri road in Ghana.

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AquaDom

The AquaDom (mixed Latin and German: 'water dome', more formally 'water cathedral') was a cylindrical acrylic glass aquarium with built-in transparent elevator inside the lobby of the Radisson Collection Hotel in the DomAquarée complex at Karl-Liebknecht-Straße in Berlin-Mitte, Germany.

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Arkhangelsk

Arkhangelsk (Арха́нгельск), also known as Archangel and Archangelsk, is a city and the administrative center of Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia.

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Army Recruit Training Centre

Army Recruit Training Centre (ARTC) is the name of the Australian Army's basic training establishment, since December 1998.

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Arnasco

Arnasco (Arnascho or Arnasco) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Savona in the Italian region of Liguria, located about southwest of Genoa and about southwest of Savona.

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Arzamas

Arzamas (Арзама́с) is a city in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia, located on the Tyosha River (a tributary of the Oka), east of Moscow.

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Arzamas train disaster

The Arzamas explosion, also known as the Arzamas train disaster, was a railway accident that occurred on June 4, 1988, in Arzamas, Gorky Oblast, Soviet Union, when an explosion at a railway crossing killed 91 people and injured 1,500.

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Associated Press

The Associated Press (AP) is an American not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City.

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Astrakhan

Astrakhan (Астрахань) is the largest city and administrative centre of Astrakhan Oblast in southern Russia.

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Atlantic Ocean

The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, with an area of about.

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Avonmouth explosion

On 3 December 2020, at about 11:20 GMT, a silo containing biosolids exploded in Avonmouth, Bristol, UK, killing four men, including a 16-year old apprentice, and injuring another person.

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İzmir

İzmir is a metropolitan city on the west coast of Anatolia, and capital of İzmir Province.

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Baghdad

Baghdad (or; translit) is the capital of Iraq and the second-largest city in the Arab and in West Asia after Tehran.

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Bahawalpur

Bahawalpur (Punjabi and Urdu: بہاول پور, romanised: Bahāwalpūr) is a city in Punjab, Pakistan.

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Baikonur Cosmodrome

The Baikonur Cosmodrome is a spaceport operated by Russia within Kazakhstan.

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Bakery

A bakery is an establishment that produces and sells flour-based baked goods made in an oven such as bread, cookies, cakes, doughnuts, bagels, pastries, and pies.

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Balkh Province

Balkh (Pashto: بلخ، Balx) is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan, located in the north of the country.

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Balochistan, Pakistan

Balochistan (بلۏچستان; بلوچستان) is a province of Pakistan.

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Balongan refinery explosion

On 29 March 2021, the Pertamina owned, Balongan oil refinery (RU VI), in the district of Indramayu, West Java, Indonesia, suffered a large explosion, and caught fire.

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Baltimore

Baltimore is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Maryland.

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Bangkok

Bangkok, officially known in Thai as Krung Thep Maha Nakhon and colloquially as Krung Thep, is the capital and most populous city of Thailand.

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BASF

BASF SE, an initialism of its original name, is a European multinational company and the largest chemical producer in the world.

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Bata, Equatorial Guinea

Bata is a port city in the Litoral province of Equatorial Guinea.

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Bayamón, Puerto Rico

Bayamón is a city, municipality of Puerto Rico and suburb of San Juan located in the northern coastal valley, north of Aguas Buenas and Comerío; south of Toa Baja and Cataño; west of Guaynabo; and east of Toa Alta and Naranjito.

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BBC News

BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world.

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Beauceville

Beauceville is a city in, and the seat of, the Municipalité régionale de comté Beauce-Centre in Quebec, Canada.

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Bedford, Ohio

Bedford is a city in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States.

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Beijing

Beijing, previously romanized as Peking, is the capital of China.

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Beirut

Beirut (help) is the capital and largest city of Lebanon.

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Beitbridge

Beitbridge is a border town in the province of Matabeleland South, Zimbabwe.

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Benton fireworks disaster

The Benton fireworks disaster was an industrial disaster that occurred on May 27, 1983, on a farm near Benton, Tennessee.

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Benton, Tennessee

Benton is a town in Polk County, Tennessee, United States.

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Benue State

Benue State is one of the North Central states in Nigeria with a population of about 4,253,641 in the 2006 census.

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Benxihu Colliery

Benxihu (Honkeiko) Colliery, located in Benxi, Liaoning, China, was first mined in 1905.

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Berkadzor

Berkadzor (Բերքաձոր) is a village in the Khojaly District of Azerbaijan, in the region of Nagorno-Karabakh.

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Berkadzor fuel depot explosion

On 25 September 2023, at about 19:00 (UTC+4), an explosion at a fuel depot in Berkadzor near Stepanakert, in the region of Nagorno-Karabakh, resulted in the deaths of at least 218 people and 120 injuries.

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Berlin

Berlin is the capital and largest city of Germany, both by area and by population.

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Bid Kaneh

Bid Kaneh (بيدكنه) is a village in, and the capital of, Malard-e Jonubi Rural District of the Central District of Malard County, Tehran province, Iran.

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Bid Kaneh explosion

The Bid Kaneh arsenal explosion was a large explosion that occurred about 13:30 local time, 12 November 2011 at the Modarres garrison missile base in Tehran Province, Iran.

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Big Bayou Canot rail accident

On September 22, 1993, an Amtrak Sunset Limited passenger train derailed on the CSX Transportation Big Bayou Canot Bridge near Mobile, Alabama, United States.

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Biosolids

Biosolids are solid organic matter recovered from a sewage treatment process and used as fertilizer.

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Birgu

Birgu (Il-Birgu, Vittoriosa), also known by its title Città Vittoriosa ('Victorious City'), is an old fortified city on the south side of the Grand Harbour in the South Eastern Region of Malta.

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Boiler explosion

A boiler explosion is a catastrophic failure of a boiler.

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Boksburg

Boksburg is a city on the East Rand of Gauteng province of South Africa.

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Boksburg explosion

The Boksburg explosion took place on 24 December 2022, when a fuel tanker carrying liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) exploded underneath a railway bridge in Boksburg, in the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality in Gauteng, South Africa, with a death toll of 41 people as of 18 January 2023.

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Bologna

Bologna (Bulåggna; Bononia) is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region, in northern Italy.

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Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport

Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport (Aeroporto di Bologna-Guglielmo Marconi) is an international airport serving the city of Bologna in Italy.

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Bonded warehouse

A bonded warehouse, or bond, is a building or other secured area in which imported but dutiable goods may be stored, manipulated, or undergo manufacturing operations without payment of duty.

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Bordeaux

Bordeaux (Gascon Bordèu; Bordele) is a city on the river Garonne in the Gironde department, southwestern France.

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Boyacá Department

Boyacá is one of the thirty-two departments of Colombia, and the remnant of Boyacá State, one of the original nine states of the "United States of Colombia".

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Braamfontein

Braamfontein (English: blackberry spring, or more prosaicly blackberry springs; also known as Braam) is a central suburb of Johannesburg, in South Africa, seat of the Constitutional Court of South Africa and some of South Africa's major corporations such as Liberty Holdings Limited, JD Group (part of Steinhoff Africa), Sappi, and Bidvest (formerly Rennies) Bank and Hollard.

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Braamfontein Explosion

The Braamfontein Explosion was an explosion of a freight train carrying dynamite in Braamfontein, a suburb of Johannesburg, in 1896.

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Brazzaville

Brazzaville (Ntamo, Ntambo, Kintamo, Kintambo, Tandala, Mavula; Teke: M'fa, Mfaa, Mfa, MfoaRoman Adrian Cybriwsky, Capital Cities around the World: An Encyclopedia of Geography, History, and Culture, ABC-CLIO, USA, 2013, p. 60) is the capital and largest city of the Republic of the Congo (Congo Republic).

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Brazzaville arms dump blasts

On 4 March 2012, a series of blasts occurred at an army arms dump in Brazzaville, the capital of the Republic of the Congo.

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Brescia

Brescia (locally; Brèsa,; Brixia; Bressa) is a city and comune (municipality) in the region of Lombardy, in northern Italy.

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Brescia explosion

The Brescia explosion occurred in 1769 in Brescia (now part of Italy) when a large store of gunpowder exploded after a lightning strike, causing extensive destruction and many deaths.

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Bristol

Bristol is a city, unitary authority area and ceremonial county in South West England, the most populous city in the region.

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British Columbia

British Columbia (commonly abbreviated as BC) is the westernmost province of Canada.

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British Empire

The British Empire comprised the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates, and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom and its predecessor states.

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Brookwood, Alabama

Brookwood is a city in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, United States.

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Buncefield fire

The Buncefield fire was a major fire at an oil storage facility that started at 06:01 UTC on Sunday 11 December 2005 at the Hertfordshire Oil Storage Terminal, located near the M1 motorway, Hemel Hempstead, in Hertfordshire, England.

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Busia County

Busia is a county in the former Western Province of Kenya.

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Butane

Butane or n-butane is an alkane with the formula C4H10.

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C23 tragedy

The C23 tragedy refers to an incident where the ''Swift''-class patrol boat C23 of the Maritime Squadron of the Armed Forces of Malta (AFM) was severely damaged in an explosion while dumping illegal fireworks off Qala in Gozo, Malta, on 7 September 1984.

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Cabinet of the United States

The Cabinet of the United States is the principal official advisory body to the president of the United States.

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Cafeteria

A cafeteria, sometimes called a canteen outside the U.S. and Canada, is a type of food service location in which there is little or no waiting staff table service, whether in a restaurant or within an institution such as a large office building or school; a school dining location is also referred to as a dining hall or lunchroom (in American English).

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Cairo

Cairo (al-Qāhirah) is the capital of Egypt and the Cairo Governorate, and is the country's largest city, being home to more than 10 million people.

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Calgary

Calgary is the largest city in the Canadian province of Alberta.

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Cali

Santiago de Cali, or Cali, is the capital of the Valle del Cauca department, and the most populous city in southwest Colombia, with 2,280,522 residents estimate by DANE in 2023.

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Cali explosion

The Cali Explosion occurred on August 7, 1956, in downtown Cali, Colombia.

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Cap-Haïtien

Cap-Haïtien (Kap Ayisyen; "Haitian Cape"), typically spelled Cape Haitien in English and often locally referred to as Le Cap, Okap or Au Cap, is a commune of about 274,000 people on the north coast of Haiti and capital of the department of Nord.

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Cap-Haïtien fuel tanker explosion

On 14 December 2021, a fuel tank truck exploded in the Samari neighborhood of Cap-Haïtien, the capital city of the Haitian department of Nord.

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Cape Town

Cape Town is the legislative capital of South Africa.

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Carlsbad, New Mexico

Carlsbad is a city in and the county seat of Eddy County, New Mexico, United States.

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Cádiz

Cádiz is a city in Spain and the capital of the Province of Cádiz, in the autonomous community of Andalusia.

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Cádiz Explosion

The Cádiz Explosion was a military accident which occurred at 9:45 pm, on 18 August 1947 at a storage depot in the Base de Defensas Submarinas (Submarine Defence Base) in Cádiz, Spain, when some 1,737 sea mines, torpedoes and depth charges (of a total of 2,228 distributed in two depots), containing 200 tonnes of TNT and amatol, exploded for unknown reasons.

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Celaya

Celaya (Otomi) is a city and its surrounding municipality in the state of Guanajuato, Mexico, located in the southeast quadrant of the state.

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Celaya fireworks disaster

On September 26, 1999, a stockpile of illegally stored fireworks and gunpowder exploded in the Mexican city of Celaya, killing 63 people and wounding 348 others.

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Central Sulawesi

Central Sulawesi (Indonesian: Sulawesi Tengah) is a province of Indonesia located at the centre of the island of Sulawesi.

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Chala LPG tanker disaster

The Chala LPG tanker disaster was a road transport accident that occurred on August 27, 2012, on Indian National Highway 17 (now NH 66) at Chala in the Kannur District of India's Kerala State.

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Chala, Kannur

Chala is a census town and Suburb of Kannur city in the state of Kerala, India and is situated south of Kannur and lies on National Highway 66 towards Thalassery.

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Channelview, Texas

Channelview is a census-designated place (CDP) in the U.S. state of Texas on the east side of Houston in Harris County.

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Checheng Road Subdistrict

Checheng Road Subdistrict is a subdistrict of Zhangwan District, Shiyan, Hubei.

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Chechnya Spetsnaz base explosion

The Chechnya Spetsnaz base explosion was the February 8, 2006, blast at the Russian Defense Ministry's special security unit barracks at Kurchaloi near Grozny, Chechnya, which killed at least 13 Russian special forces troops and injured 28 more, according to the official statement.

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Chemical Industries of Ethylene Oxide explosion

On 14 January 2020, there was a major explosion at the Chemical Industries of Ethylene Oxide (IQOXE) site in Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain.

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Chemical plant

A chemical plant is an industrial process plant that manufactures (or otherwise processes) chemicals, usually on a large scale.

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Chicago

Chicago is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States.

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Chikkaballapur

Chikkaballapur is the district headquarters of the newly created Chikkaballapur district in the state of Karnataka, India, which was carved out from Kolar district.

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Chikuhō coalfield

Mitsubishi-Iizuka coal mine The is located on Kyushu Island, Japan.

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China

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia.

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Chinese Canadians

Chinese Canadians are Canadians of full or partial Han Chinese ancestry, which includes both naturalized Chinese immigrants and Canadian-born Chinese.

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Chittagong

Chittagong, officially Chattogram (Côṭṭôgrām, Chittagonian: চাটগাঁও Sāṭgão), is the second-largest city in Bangladesh.

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Chongqing

Chongqing is a municipality in Southwestern China.

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Chongqing explosion

On 7 January 2022, an explosion caused by a gas leak in a canteen building in Wulong District, Chongqing, southwest China, killed at least 16 people and injured 10 others.

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Christopher Hibbert

Arthur Raymond "Christopher" Hibbert, MC, FRSL, FRGS (5 March 1924 – 21 December 2008) was an English author, popular historian and biographer.

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Chuzhou

Chuzhou is a prefecture-level city in eastern Anhui Province, China. It borders the provincial capital of Hefei to the south and southwest, Huainan to the west, Bengbu to the northwest, and the province of Jiangsu to the east. According to the 2010 Chinese census, the city of Chuzhou has a registered population of 3,987,054 inhabitants, of whom 1,198,719 live in the built-up (or metro) area made of two urban districts, with Lai'an County now largely being urbanized.

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Citric acid

Citric acid is an organic compound with the chemical formula.

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Clarkston explosion

The Clarkston explosion was a disaster that occurred on 21 October 1971 in a row of shops on the main street of Clarkston, East Renfrewshire, Scotland.

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Clarkston, East Renfrewshire

Clarkston (Clairkstoun, Baile Chlarc) is a suburban town in East Renfrewshire, in the Central Lowlands of Scotland.

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Cleveland

Cleveland, officially the City of Cleveland, is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio.

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Cleveland East Ohio Gas explosion

The Cleveland East Ohio Gas explosion occurred on the afternoon of Friday, October 20, 1944.

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Coal mining

Coal mining is the process of extracting coal from the ground or from a mine.

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Coatzacoalcos

Coatzacoalcos (Koatzakwalko; Zapotec: Niniashi; Popoluca: Puertu) is a major port city in the southern part of the Mexican state of Veracruz, mostly on the western side of the Coatzacoalcos River estuary, on the Bay of Campeche, on the southern Gulf of Mexico coast.

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Conakry

Conakry (Kɔnakiri) is the capital and largest city of Guinea.

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Conakry oil depot explosion

On 18 December 2023, an explosion and fire broke out at an oil depot in Conakry, Guinea, killing at least 24 people and injuring 454 and resulting in fuel shortages across the country.

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Confederate States Army

The Confederate States Army, also called the Confederate Army or the Southern Army, was the military land force of the Confederate States of America (commonly referred to as the Confederacy) during the American Civil War (1861–1865), fighting against the United States forces to win the independence of the Southern states and uphold and expand the institution of slavery.

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Cork (city)

Cork (from corcach, meaning 'marsh') is the second largest city in the Republic of Ireland, third largest on the island of Ireland, the county town of County Cork and largest city in the province of Munster.

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Cork gunpowder explosion

The Cork gunpowder explosion was a large explosion that took place in Cork, Ireland, on 3 November 1810.

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Corpus Christi, Texas

Corpus Christi (Body of Christ) is a coastal city in the South Texas region of the U.S. state of Texas and the county seat and largest city of Nueces County with portions extending into Aransas, Kleberg, and San Patricio counties.

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Cospicua

Cospicua (Italian) or Bormla (Maltese), occasionally also known by the Latin name Cottonera, is a double-fortified harbour city in the Port Region of Malta.

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Counter Terrorism Department (Pakistan)

The Counter Terrorism Department (سررشتہِ تحقیقاتِ جرائم، پاکستان; CTD) formerly known as the Crime Investigation Department (CID), are crime scene investigation, interrogation, anti-terrorism, and intelligence bureaus of the provincial police services of Pakistan.

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County Donegal

County Donegal (Contae Dhún na nGall) is a county of Ireland in the province of Ulster and in the Northern and Western Region.

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Courrières

Courrières is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France.

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Courrières mine disaster

The Courrières mine disaster, Europe's worst mining accident, caused the death of 1,099 miners in Northern France on 10 March 1906.

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Creeslough

Creeslough (locally; An Craoslach) is a village in County Donegal, Ireland, south of Dunfanaghy on the N56 road.

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Creeslough explosion

The Creeslough explosion occurred on 7 October 2022 at an apartment above Applegreen petrol station in Creeslough, a village in north County Donegal, Ireland.

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Crosby, Texas

Crosby is a census-designated place in Harris County, Texas, United States.

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Cundinamarca Department

Department of Cundinamarca (Departamento de Cundinamarca) is one of the departments of Colombia.

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Dafang County

Dafang, called Dading until 1958, is a county of Guizhou province, China.

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Dagestan

Dagestan (Дагестан), officially the Republic of Dagestan, is a republic of Russia situated in the North Caucasus of Eastern Europe, along the Caspian Sea.

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Damascus, Arkansas

Damascus is a town in Faulkner and Van Buren counties of central Arkansas, United States.

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Dangyang

Dangyang is a city in western Hubei province, People's Republic of China, lying east of the Gezhouba Dam on the Yangtze River.

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Dar es Salaam

Dar es Salaam (from lit) is the largest city and financial hub of Tanzania.

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Dartmouth, Nova Scotia

Dartmouth (Scottish-Gaelic: Baile nan Loch) is a built-up community of Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia, Canada.

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Datong

Datong is a prefecture-level city in northern Shanxi Province in the People's Republic of China.

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Delft

Delft is a city and municipality in the province of South Holland, Netherlands.

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Delta State

Delta State is a state in the South-South geopolitical zone of Nigeria.

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Denmark

Denmark (Danmark) is a Nordic country in the south-central portion of Northern Europe.

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Dhaka

Dhaka (or; Ḍhākā), formerly known as Dacca, is the capital and largest city of Bangladesh.

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Dhaka Tribune

The Dhaka Tribune is a major Bangladeshi English-language daily newspaper based in Dhaka, the country's capital and largest city.

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Dimmitt, Texas

Dimmitt is a city and county seat in Castro County, Texas, United States.

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Dnipro

Dnipro is Ukraine's fourth-largest city, with about one million inhabitants.

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Doha

Doha (ad-Dawḥa or ad-Dūḥa) is the capital city and main financial hub of Qatar.

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Donetsk

Donetsk (Донецьк; Донецк), formerly known as Aleksandrovka, Yuzivka (or Hughesovka), Stalin, and Stalino, is an industrial city in eastern Ukraine located on the Kalmius River in Donetsk Oblast, which is currently occupied by Russia as the capital of the Donetsk People's Republic.

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Dongying

Dongying, a prefecture-level city, lies on the northern (Bohai Sea) coast of Shandong province, People's Republic of China.

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Dorset

Dorset (archaically: Dorsetshire) is a ceremonial county in South West England.

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Douro-Dummer

Douro-Dummer is a township in central-eastern Ontario, Canada, in Peterborough County along the Trent-Severn Waterway.

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Drummond Mine explosion

The Drummond Mine explosion, also called the Drummond Colliery Disaster, was a mining accident that happened in Westville, Pictou County, Nova Scotia on May 13, 1873.

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Dschang

Dschang is a city located in the West (Ouest) Province of Cameroon, with an estimated population of 87,000 (est) in 2001, growing dramatically from 21,705 recorded in 1981.

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Dschang bus-truck crash

In the early morning of January 27, 2021, a passenger bus operated by an interurban travel agency collided with a truck carrying fuel at the Cliff of Dschang, in the commune of Santchou, close to the major city of Dschang, Cameroon.

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Dubai

Dubai (translit) is the most populous city in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the capital of the Emirate of Dubai, the most populated of the country's seven emirates.

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Dublin

Dublin is the capital of the Republic of Ireland and also the largest city by size on the island of Ireland.

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Dublin gunpowder explosion

The Dublin gunpowder explosion was a large explosion that took place on the quays of Dublin on 11 March 1597.

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Dublin quays

The Dublin quays refers to the two roadways and quays that run along the north and south banks of the River Liffey in Dublin, Ireland.

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Durham, North Carolina

Durham is a city in the U.S. state of North Carolina and the county seat of Durham County.

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Dusit district

Dusit (ดุสิต) is one of the 50 districts (khet) of Bangkok, Thailand.

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Dynamite

Dynamite is an explosive made of nitroglycerin, sorbents (such as powdered shells or clay), and stabilizers.

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East Java

East Java (Jawa Timur, Jawi Wetan, Jhâbâ Tèmor) is a province of Indonesia located in the easternmost third of Java island.

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Ecatepec de Morelos

Ecatepec, officially Ecatepec de Morelos, is a municipality in the State of Mexico, and is situated in the north part of the Greater Mexico City urban area.

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El Mundo (Spain)

(), before, is the second largest printed daily newspaper in Spain.

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Emohua

Emohua is an oil rich Local Government Area in Rivers State, Nigeria.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Enschede

Enschede (known as Eanske in the local Tweants dialect of Low Saxon) is a city and municipality in the province of Overijssel.

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Enschede fireworks disaster

The Enschede fireworks disaster was a catastrophic fireworks explosion on 13 May 2000 in Enschede, Netherlands.

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Europe

Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.

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Evangelos Florakis Naval Base explosion

On 11 July 2011, at Evangelos Florakis Naval Base, situated at Mari, Larnaca in Cyprus, a large amount of ammunition and military explosives self-detonated, killing 13 people, including the Commander of the Cyprus Navy, Andreas Ioannides, the base commander, Lambros Lambrou, and six firefighters.

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Explosive

An explosive (or explosive material) is a reactive substance that contains a great amount of potential energy that can produce an explosion if released suddenly, usually accompanied by the production of light, heat, sound, and pressure.

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Fatullah

Fatullah (ফতুল্লা) (also known as Fatulla) is a town and a Union in Narayanganj Sadar Upazila in Narayanganj District.

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Faversham

Faversham is a market town in Kent, England, from Sittingbourne, from London and from Canterbury, next to the Swale, a strip of sea separating mainland Kent from the Isle of Sheppey in the Thames Estuary.

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February 2019 Dhaka fire

On 20 February 2019, a fire broke out in Dhaka, Bangladesh following a road accident between a pickup van and a private car.

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Federal government of the United States

The federal government of the United States (U.S. federal government or U.S. government) is the national government of the United States, a federal republic located primarily in North America, composed of 50 states, five major self-governing territories, several island possessions, and the federal district/national capital of Washington, D.C., where most of the federal government is based.

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Flixborough disaster

The Flixborough disaster was an explosion at a chemical plant close to the village of Flixborough, North Lincolnshire, England, on Saturday, 1 June 1974.

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Florida

Florida is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States.

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Fort Deposit, Alabama

Fort Deposit is a town in Lowndes County, Alabama, United States.

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Fort ship

The Fort ships were a class of 198 cargo ships built in Canada during World War II for use by the United Kingdom.

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Freetown

Freetown is the capital and largest city of Sierra Leone.

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Freetown fuel tanker explosion

On 5 November 2021 a collision between a petrol fuel tanker and a lorry at a busy junction of Sierra Leone's capital, Freetown, resulted in an explosion and a fire that caused 154 deaths and 304 injuries, overwhelming the city's medical services.

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Fukushima Prefecture

Fukushima Prefecture (Fukushima-ken) is a prefecture of Japan located in the Tōhoku region of Honshu.

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Fuxin

Fuxin is a prefecture-level city in northwestern Liaoning province, People's Republic of China, bordering the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region to the north.

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Gabès

Gabès (Gābis), also spelled Cabès, Cabes, Kabes, Gabbs and Gaps, is the capital city of the Gabès Governorate in Tunisia.

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Gadani

Gadani (گڈانی) is a coastal town of Hub District located in the southern part of Balochistan along the Arabian Sea, Pakistan.

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Gas carrier

A gas carrier, gas tanker, LPG carrier, or LPG tanker is a ship designed to transport LPG, LNG, CNG, or liquefied chemical gases in bulk.

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Gateshead

Gateshead is a town in the Gateshead Metropolitan Borough of Tyne and Wear, England.

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Gaziantep

Gaziantep, historically Aintab and still informally called Antep, is a major city in south-central Turkey.

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Gaziantep hospital fire

On 19 December 2020, a fire at occurred at privately run Sanko University Hospital in Gaziantep, Turkey.

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Gërdec

Gërdec is a village in Albania, north-west of the capital Tirana.

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Gbomblora

Gbomblora is a village in the province of Poni in the Sud-Ouest Region of Burkina Faso.

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Gbomblora explosion

On 21 February 2022, a major explosion, followed by several smaller ones, occurred at a gold mine in Gbomblora, Gbomblora Department, Burkina Faso.

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Geismar, Louisiana

Geismar is an unincorporated community in Ascension Parish, Louisiana, United States and is at the heart of Louisiana's chemical corridor.

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Gelignite

Gelignite, also known as blasting gelatin or simply "jelly", is an explosive material consisting of collodion-cotton (a type of nitrocellulose or guncotton) dissolved in either nitroglycerine or nitroglycol and mixed with wood pulp and saltpetre (sodium nitrate or potassium nitrate).

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Gharbia Governorate

Gharbia Governorate (محافظة الغربية,, "the western governorate") is one of the governorates of Egypt.

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Ghislenghien

Ghislenghien (Gellingen; Guilinguin) is a small town of Wallonia and a district of the municipality of Ath, located in the province of Hainaut, Belgium.

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Glasgow

Glasgow is the most populous city in Scotland, located on the banks of the River Clyde in west central Scotland.

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Gorni Lom

Gorni Lom (Горни Лом) is a village in north-western Bulgaria, Vidin Province.

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Great fire of Newcastle and Gateshead

The great fire of Gateshead and Newcastle was a tragic and spectacular series of events starting on Friday 6 October 1854, in which a substantial amount of property in two North East England towns was destroyed in a series of fires and an explosion which killed 53 and injured hundreds.

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Great Train Wreck of 1856

The Great Train Wreck of 1856 occurred in Whitemarsh Township, Pennsylvania, between Camp Hill station (known as Sandy Run, Camp Hill, Sellwick and finally Fellwick station before being closed in 1996) and Fort Washington station, on July 17, 1856.

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Grozny

Grozny (Groznyy,; translit) is the capital city of Chechnya, Russia.

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Guadalajara

Guadalajara is a city in western Mexico and the capital of the state of Jalisco.

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Guangxi

Guangxi, officially the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China, located in South China and bordering Vietnam (Hà Giang, Cao Bằng, Lạng Sơn, and Quảng Ninh Provinces) and the Gulf of Tonkin.

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Gujarat

Gujarat is a state along the western coast of India.

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Gulistan, Dhaka

Gulistan is one of the busiest commercial areas in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

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Gunpowder

Gunpowder, also commonly known as black powder to distinguish it from modern smokeless powder, is the earliest known chemical explosive.

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Gurdaspur

Gurdaspur is a city in the Indian state of Punjab, between the rivers Beas and Ravi.

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Halifax Explosion

On the morning of 6 December 1917, the French cargo ship collided with the Norwegian vessel in the harbour of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

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Halifax, Nova Scotia

Halifax (Scottish-Gaelic: Halafacs or An Àrd-Bhaile) is the capital and most populous municipality of the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, and the most populous municipality in Atlantic Canada.

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Havana

Havana (La Habana) is the capital and largest city of Cuba.

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Hōjō Coal Mine Disaster

The Mitsubishi Hōjō mine disaster occurred December 15, 1914, in Kyushu, Japan.

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Hōjō, Fukuoka

was a town located in Tagawa District, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan.

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Hebei

Hebei is a province in North China.

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Hegang

Hegang (also known as Heli and Xingshan), is a prefecture-level city in Heilongjiang province of the People's Republic of China, situated in the southeastern section of the Lesser Khingan Range, facing Jiamusi across the Songhua River to the south and Russia's Jewish Autonomous Oblast across the Amur River to the north.

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Hemel Hempstead

Hemel Hempstead is a town in the Dacorum district in Hertfordshire, England.

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Henan

Henan is an inland province of China.

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Henderson, Nevada

Henderson is a city in Clark County, Nevada, United States, about southeast of downtown Las Vegas.

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Herat

Herāt (Pashto, هرات) is an oasis city and the third-largest city in Afghanistan.

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Herat Province

Herat (هرات) is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan, located in the western part of the country.

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Hexamethyldisiloxane

Hexamethyldisiloxane (HMDSO or MM) is an organosilicon compound with the formula O2.

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Hidalgo (state)

Hidalgo, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Hidalgo (Estado Libre y Soberano de Hidalgo), is one of the 31 states which, along with Mexico City, constitute the 32 federal entities of Mexico.

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Hitrino

Hitrino (Хитрино) is a village in northeastern Bulgaria, part of Shumen Province.

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Hitrino train derailment

On 10 December 2016, a freight train derailed, exploded and caught fire in the village of Hitrino in Shumen Province, Bulgaria, killing at least seven people and injuring 29 others.

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Horseshoe

A horseshoe is a product designed to protect a horse hoof from wear.

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Hospitaller Malta

Hospitaller Malta, known in Maltese history as the Knights' Period (Żmien il-Kavallieri), was a ''de facto'' state which existed between 1530 and 1798 when the Mediterranean islands of Malta and Gozo were ruled by the Order of St. John of Jerusalem.

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Hotel Saratoga

The Hotel Saratoga was a historic hotel located on the Paseo del Prado, in Old Havana near the Fuente de la India.

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Hotel Saratoga explosion

On 6 May 2022, Hotel Saratoga, a luxury hotel in the Old Havana municipality in the city of Havana, Cuba, suffered a suspected gas explosion that damaged large portions of the building as well as surrounding infrastructure.

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Houston

Houston is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Texas and in the Southern United States.

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Hub Oil explosion

The Hub Oil explosion was an industrial accident that took place on August 9, 1999 in Calgary, Alberta and caused two fatalities.

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Hub, Balochistan

Hub (حب) is a city and capital of the Hub District in Pakistan's Balochistan province.

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Hubei

Hubei is an inland province of China, and is part of the Central China region.

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Humberto Vidal explosion

The Humberto Vidal explosion (sometimes also referred to as the Río Piedras explosion) was a gas explosion that occurred on November 21, 1996 at the Humberto Vidal shoe store in Río Piedras, Puerto Rico.

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Hurricane Creek mine disaster

The Hurricane Creek mine disaster occurred on December 30, 1970, shortly after noon and resulted in the deaths of 39 men.

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Hyesan

Hyesan is a city in the northern part of Ryanggang province of North Korea.

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Hyperbaric medicine

Hyperbaric medicine is a medical treatment in which an increase in barometric pressure over ambient pressure is employed increasing the partial pressures of all gases present in the compressed air.

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Ibadan petrol tanker explosion

The Ibadan petrol tanker explosion was a major accident on the road from Ibadan to Ifẹ in Nigeria on 5 November 2000.

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Icheon

Icheon is a city in Gyeonggi Province, South Korea.

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Iganga District

Iganga District is a district in the Eastern Region of Uganda.

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Iglinsky District

Iglinsky District (Игли́нский райо́н; Иглин районы, İglin rayonı) is an administrativeConstitution of the Republic of Bashkortostan, Article 64 and municipalLaw #126-z district (raion), one of the fifty-four in the Republic of Bashkortostan, Russia.

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Iksan

Iksan (익산) is a city and major railway junction in North Jeolla Province, South Korea.

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Imo State

Imo State (Ȯha Imo) is a state in the South-East geopolitical zone of Nigeria, bordered to the north by Anambra State, Rivers State to the west and south, and Abia State to the east.

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Improvised explosive device

An improvised explosive device (IED) is a bomb constructed and deployed in ways other than in conventional military action.

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Indiana Farmers Coliseum

The Indiana Farmers Coliseum (originally Indiana State Fairgrounds Coliseum and formerly Pepsi Coliseum and Fairgrounds Coliseum) is a 6,500-seat indoor multi-use arena, located on the Indiana State Fairgrounds in Indianapolis.

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Indianapolis

Indianapolis, colloquially known as Indy, is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Indiana and the seat of Marion County.

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Indonesia

Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans.

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Indramayu

Indramayu (ꦆꦤ꧀ꦢꦿꦩꦪꦸ; 南麻由), named after the God Indra, is a town and district which serves as the capital of Indramayu Regency in the West Java province of Indonesia, and is located in the northern coastal area of West Java, east from Jakarta, north-east from the city of Bandung, and north-west of the city of Cirebon.

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Iri station explosion

The Iri station explosion was a disaster that occurred in Iri, North Jeolla, South Korea on November 11, 1977, at 9:15 p.m. About 40 tons of dynamite carried in a freight train Gwangju exploded at Iri station.

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Irish Examiner

The Irish Examiner, formerly The Cork Examiner and then The Examiner, is an Irish national daily newspaper which primarily circulates in the Munster region surrounding its base in Cork, though it is available throughout the country.

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Istanbul

Istanbul is the largest city in Turkey, straddling the Bosporus Strait, the boundary between Europe and Asia.

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Istanbul fireworks disaster

The Istanbul fireworks disaster occurred on 1 February 2008.

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Jambyl Region

Jambyl or Zhambyl Region (translit; Zhambylskaya oblast), formerly known as Dzhambul Region (Dzhambulskaya Oblast) until 1991, is a region of Kazakhstan.

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Jastrzębie-Zdrój

Jastrzębie-Zdrój (Bad Königsdorff-Jastrzemb, originally Jastrzemb, Lázně Jestřebí; Jastrzymbie-Zdroj) is a city in south Poland with 86,632 inhabitants (2021).

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Jebba

Jebba town is a Yoruba city in Kwara State, Nigeria.

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Jiangxi

Jiangxi is an inland province in the east of the People's Republic of China.

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Jilin City

Jilin City is the second-largest city and former capital of Jilin province in northeast China.

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Johannesburg

Johannesburg (Zulu and Xhosa: eGoli) (colloquially known as Jozi, Joburg, Jo'burg or "The City of Gold") is the most populous city in South Africa with 4,803,262 people, and is classified as a megacity; it is one of the 100 largest urban areas in the world.

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John Brogden and Sons

John Brogden and Sons was a firm of Railway Contractors, Iron and Coal Miners and Iron Smelters operating, initially as a general contractor, from roughly 1828 until its bankruptcy in 1880.

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John Tyler

John Tyler (March 29, 1790 – January 18, 1862) was an American politician and lawyer who served as the tenth president of the United States from 1841 to 1845, after briefly holding office as the tenth vice president in 1841.

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Jose Cuervo

Jose Cuervo is the best-selling brand of tequila,Dana Cimilluca, Paul Sonne and Simon Zekaria, Wall Street Journal, December 11, 2012.

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July 2007 Syrian arms depot explosion

The July 2007 Syrian arms depot explosion was a blast in July 2007 at a highly secretive Syrian missile base.

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Kabal Tehsil

Kabal (Urdu and کبل) is a town in Swat District, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan located from Mingora city.

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Kabul

Kabul is the capital city of Afghanistan.

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Kafr Elle Zayat fuel truck explosion

The Kafr Elle Zayat fuel truck explosion occurred on 10 December 2013 when a truck exploded.

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Kaloum

Kaloum is an urban sub-prefecture in the Conakry Region of Guinea and one of five in the capital Conakry.

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Kalynivka, Vinnytsia Oblast

Kalynivka (Kalinówka) is a city in Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukraine.

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Kampong Speu province

Kampong Speu (កំពង់ស្ពឺ) is a province of Cambodia.

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Kano (city)

Kano (Ajami: كَنُواْ) is a city in northern Nigeria and the capital of Kano State.

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Kaohsiung

Kaohsiung, officially Kaohsiung City, is a special municipality located in southern Taiwan.

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Karachi

Karachi (کراچی) is the capital city of the Pakistani province of Sindh.

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Karaganda Region

Karaganda Region (Qarağandy oblysy, Карагандинская область) is a region of Kazakhstan.

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Karl-Liebknecht-Straße

Karl-Liebknecht-Straße is a major street in the central Mitte district of the German capital Berlin.

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Karnataka

Karnataka (ISO), also known colloquially as Karunāḍu, is a state in the southwestern region of India.

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Kazan

Kazan is the largest city and capital of Tatarstan, Russia.

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Kırıkkale Province

Kırıkkale Province (Kırıkkale ili) is a province of Turkey.

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Kōriyama

is a city in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan.

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Kōriyama explosion

The Kōriyama explosion occurred on 30 July 2020 at 8:57 a.m. Japan Standard Time, when a gas explosion destroyed an On-Yasai, a shabu-shabu restaurant located along in the city of Kōriyama in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan.

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Kemerovo Oblast

Kemerovo Oblast (Kemerovskaya oblast'), also known as Kuzbass (Кузба́сс), after the Kuznetsk Basin, is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast).

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Khartoum

Khartoum or Khartum (al-Khurṭūm, pronounced al.xur.tˤuːm) is the capital of Sudan.

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Khuzestan province

Khuzestan Province (استان خوزستان) is one of the 31 provinces of Iran.

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Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (خېبر پښتونخوا; Hindko and,; abbr. KP), formerly known as North West Frontier Province (NWFP), is a province of Pakistan.

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Kings Mills, Ohio

Kings Mills is a census-designated place in the northeastern corner of Deerfield Township of Warren County, Ohio, United States, on the western shore of the Little Miami River.

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Kinshasa

Kinshasa (Kinsásá), formerly named Léopoldville until June 30, 1966, is the capital and largest city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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Kinston, North Carolina

Kinston is a city in Lenoir County, North Carolina, United States, with a population of 19,900 as of the 2020 census.

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Kisumu

Kisumu is the third-largest city in Kenya after the capital, Nairobi, and Mombasa.

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Kogi State

Kogi State is a state in the North Central region of Nigeria, bordered to the west by the states of Ekiti and Kwara, to the north by the Federal Capital Territory, to the northeast by Nasarawa State, to the northwest by Niger State, to the southwest by the Edo and Ondo states, to the southeast by the states of Anambra and Enugu, and to the east by Benue State.

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Kongo Central

Kongo Central (Kongo dia Kati), formerly Bas-Congo, is one of the 26 provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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Kralupy nad Vltavou

Kralupy nad Vltavou (Kralup an der Moldau) is a town in Mělník District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic.

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Kunshan

Kunshan is a county-level city in southeastern Jiangsu province with Shanghai bordering its eastern border and Suzhou on its western boundary.

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Kyiv

Kyiv (also Kiev) is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine.

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Kyiv Polytechnic Institute

Kyiv Polytechnic Institute (official long title as National Technical University of Ukraine "Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute") is a public technological university in Kyiv, Ukraine.

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Kyushu

is the third-largest island of Japan's four main islands and the most southerly of the four largest islands (i.e. excluding Okinawa).

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La Merced (neighborhood)

La Merced is a barrio or a neighborhood of Mexico City defined by its socioeconomics and history rather than by an official designation.

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Lac-Mégantic rail disaster

The Lac-Mégantic rail disaster occurred in the town of Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, Canada, on July6, 2013, at approximately 1:14 a.m. EDT, when an unattended 73-car Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway (MMA) freight train carrying Bakken Formation crude oil rolled down a 1.2% grade from Nantes and derailed downtown, resulting in the explosion and fire of multiple tank cars.

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Lac-Mégantic, Quebec

Lac-Mégantic is a town in the Estrie region of Quebec, Canada.

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Lafia

Lafia is a city in Nigeria's North Central region.

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Lagos

Lagos (also US), or Lagos City, is a large metropolitan city in southwestern Nigeria.

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Lagos State

Lagos State (Ìpínlẹ̀ Èkó, Ayìmátẹ̀n Awọnlìn tọ̀n) is a state in southwestern Nigeria.

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Lagos–Ibadan Expressway

The Lagos–Ibadan Expressway is a expressway connecting Ibadan, the capital of Oyo State and Lagos, Nigeria's largest city.

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Lahore

Lahore (لہور; لاہور) is the capital and largest city of the Pakistani province of Punjab.

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Lancashire

Lancashire (abbreviated Lancs) is a ceremonial county in North West England.

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Largest artificial non-nuclear explosions

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LaSalle Heights disaster

The LaSalle Heights disaster occurred in the early morning of March 1, 1965, in the city of LaSalle, Quebec when a gas line explosion destroyed a number of low-cost housing units.

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LaSalle, Quebec

LaSalle is the most southerly borough (arrondissement) of the city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

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Le Mans

Le Mans is a city in northwestern France on the Sarthe River where it meets the Huisne.

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Leicester

Leicester is a city, unitary authority area, unparished area and the county town of Leicestershire in the East Midlands of England.

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Leiden

Leiden (in English and archaic Dutch also Leyden) is a city and municipality in the province of South Holland, Netherlands.

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Leiden gunpowder disaster

The Leiden gunpowder disaster was an event in which a ship carrying hundreds of barrels of black powder exploded in the town of Leiden in the Netherlands on 12 January 1807.

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Leninsk-Kuznetsky (city)

Leninsk-Kuznetsky (Ле́нинск-Кузне́цкий), known as Kolchugino (Кольчу́гино) until 1925, is a city in Kemerovo Oblast, Russia, located on both banks of the Inya River (Ob's tributary).

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Leslie County, Kentucky

Leslie County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kentucky.

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Leverkusen

Leverkusen is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, on the eastern bank of the Rhine.

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Lewis Nixon (naval architect)

Lewis Nixon (April 7, 1861 – September 23, 1940) was a naval architect, shipbuilding executive, public servant, and political activist.

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Liaoning

Liaoning is a coastal province in Northeast China that is the smallest, southernmost, and most populous province in the region.

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Linyi

Linyi is a prefecture-level city in the south of Shandong province, China.

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Liquefied petroleum gas

Liquefied petroleum gas, also referred to as liquid petroleum gas (LPG or LP gas), is a fuel gas which contains a flammable mixture of hydrocarbon gases, specifically propane, ''n''-butane and isobutane.

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List of accidents and incidents involving transport or storage of ammunition

An accidental explosion of ammunition, during transport or storage, can be lethal and have far-reaching affects, especially on the population and environment around it.

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List of ammonium nitrate incidents and disasters

When heated, ammonium nitrate decomposes non-explosively into gases of oxygen, nitrogen, and water vapor; however, it can be induced to decompose explosively by detonation into nitrous oxide and water vapor.

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List of boiler explosions

This is a list of steam boiler explosions such as railway locomotive, marine transport (military and civilian), and stationary power. List of explosions and list of boiler explosions are lists of explosions.

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List of boiling liquid expanding vapor explosions

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List of explosions

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List of pipeline accidents

The following is a worldwide list of pipeline accidents.

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List of storms named Claudette

The name Claudette has been used for eight tropical cyclones in the Atlantic Ocean and for one in the South-West Indian Ocean.

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List of tank truck explosions

This is a list of tank truck explosions.

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List of terrorist incidents

The following is a list of terrorist incidents that were not carried out by a state or its forces (see state terrorism and state-sponsored terrorism).

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List of unusual deaths

This list of unusual deaths includes unique or extremely rare circumstances of death recorded throughout history, noted as being unusual by multiple sources.

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Listvyazhnaya mine disaster

The Listvyazhnaya mine disaster was a mining accident that occurred on 25 November 2021 in a coal mine in Kemerovo Oblast, Russia.

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Little Miami Railroad

The Little Miami Railroad was a railway of southwestern Ohio, running from the eastern side of Cincinnati to Springfield, Ohio.

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Liverpool Daily Post

The Liverpool Post was a newspaper published by Trinity Mirror in Liverpool, Merseyside, England.

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London

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.

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Longford, Victoria

Longford is a town in the Gippsland region of Victoria, Australia.

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Los Alfaques disaster

The Los Alfaques disaster was caused by the explosion of a road tanker near a holiday campsite on 11 July 1978 in Alcanar, Spain.

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Louisville sewer explosions

On February 13, 1981, a series of explosions destroyed more than of sewer lines and streets in the center of Louisville in Kentucky, United States.

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Louisville, Kentucky

Louisville is the most populous city in the Commonwealth of Kentucky, sixth-most populous city in the Southeast, and the 27th-most-populous city in the United States.

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Lucy Walker steamboat disaster

The Lucy Walker steamboat disaster was an 1844 steamboat accident caused by the explosion of the boilers of the steamboat Lucy Walker near New Albany, Indiana, on the Ohio River.

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Ludwigshafen

Ludwigshafen, officially Ludwigshafen am Rhein (meaning "Ludwig's Port upon Rhine"), is a city in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate, on the river Rhine (Upper Rhine), opposite Mannheim.

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Luhansk

Luhansk (Луганськ), also known as Lugansk (Луганск), is a city in the Donbas region, eastern Ukraine.

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Lutuhyne

Lutuhyne is a city in the Luhansk Raion of Luhansk Oblast (region) of Eastern Ukraine, Donbas.

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Macmillan Publishers

Macmillan Publishers (occasionally known as the Macmillan Group; formally Macmillan Publishers Ltd in the UK and Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC in the US) is a British publishing company traditionally considered to be one of the 'Big Five' English language publishers (along with Penguin Random House, Hachette, HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster).

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Madhya Pradesh

Madhya Pradesh (meaning 'central province') is a state in central India.

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Madrid

Madrid is the capital and most populous city of Spain.

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Maghbazar

Maghbazar (মগবাজার) or Mogbazar is a neighbourhood in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

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Magnitogorsk

Magnitogorsk (p) is an industrial city in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia, on the eastern side of the extreme southern extent of the Ural Mountains by the Ural River.

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Magude train disaster

The Magude train disaster occurred on 27 March 1974 in Magude, Portuguese Mozambique, when a train carrying passengers from Rhodesia collided head-on with a Mozambican freight train, causing an explosion that killed 70 people and injured 200.

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Magude, Maputo Province

Magude is a town in Maputo Province in southern Mozambique.

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Makati

Makati, officially the City of Makati (Lungsod ng Makati), is a highly urbanized city in the National Capital Region of the Philippines, known for being one of the leading financial centers in the country.

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Makhachkala

Makhachkala, previously known as Petrovskoye (1844–1857) and Port-Petrovsk (1857–1921), or by the local Kumyk name of Anji, is the capital and largest city of Dagestan, Russia.

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Malta Protectorate

Malta Protectorate (Protettorato di Malta, Protettorat ta' Malta) was the political term for Malta when it was a British protectorate.

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Manila Bulletin

The Manila Bulletin (also known as the Bulletin and previously known as the Manila Daily Bulletin from 1906 to September 23, 1972, and the Bulletin Today from November 22, 1972, to March 10, 1986) is the Philippines' largest English language broadsheet newspaper by circulation.

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Maputo

Maputo is the capital and largest city of Mozambique.

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Marwar

Marwar (also called Jodhpur region) is a region of western Rajasthan state in North Western India.

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Mbandaka Airport

Mbandaka Airport (Aéroport de Mbandaka) is an airport serving the Congo River port of Mbandaka, capital city of the Équateur District in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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Memphis tanker truck disaster

On December 23, 1988, a tractor-trailer tanker truck hauling liquefied propane crashed on an exit ramp at the Interstate 40/Interstate 240 (I-40/I-240) interchange in downtown Memphis, Tennessee, US.

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Memphis, Tennessee

Memphis is a city in the U.S. state of Tennessee.

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Merivale Road

Merivale Road is an arterial road in the west end of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

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Merrimack Valley

The Merrimack Valley is a bi-state region along the Merrimack River in the U.S. states of New Hampshire and Massachusetts.

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Merrimack Valley gas explosions

On September 13, 2018, excessive pressure in natural gas lines owned by Columbia Gas of Massachusetts caused a series of explosions and fires to occur in as many as 40 homes, with over 80 individual fires, in the towns of Lawrence, Andover, and North Andover, all within the Merrimack Valley, in Massachusetts, United States.

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Messina

Messina (Missina) is a harbour city and the capital of the Italian Metropolitan City of Messina.

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Mexico City

Mexico City (Ciudad de México,; abbr.: CDMX; Central Nahuatl:,; Otomi) is the capital and largest city of Mexico, and the most populous city in North America.

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Mexico City fireworks disaster

On December 12, 1988, an explosion and subsequent fire triggered by illegal fireworks at the La Merced Market in La Merced, a neighborhood of Mexico City, killed more than 60 people.

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Mezhdurechensk, Kemerovo Oblast

Mezhdurechensk (p; Суғаразы-тура, Suƣarazь-tura) is a city in Kemerovo Oblast, Russia.

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Mi'kmaq

The Mi'kmaq (also Mi'gmaq, Lnu, Miꞌkmaw or Miꞌgmaw) are a First Nations people of the Northeastern Woodlands, indigenous to the areas of Canada's Atlantic Provinces, primarily Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland, and the Gaspé Peninsula of Quebec as well as Native Americans in the northeastern region of Maine.

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Michigan

Michigan is a state in the Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwest region of the United States.

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Micklefield

Micklefield is a village and civil parish in the City of Leeds in West Yorkshire, England.

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Middletown, Connecticut

Middletown is a city in Middlesex County, Connecticut, United States.

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Mie Prefecture

is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kansai region of Honshu.

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Mihăilești, Buzău

Mihăilești is a commune in Buzău County, Muntenia, Romania.

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Milwaukee

Milwaukee is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Wisconsin and the seat of Milwaukee County.

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Ming dynasty

The Ming dynasty, officially the Great Ming, was an imperial dynasty of China, ruling from 1368 to 1644 following the collapse of the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty.

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Mississauga

Mississauga is a Canadian city in the province of Ontario.

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Mississippi River

The Mississippi River is the primary river and second-longest river of the largest drainage basin in the United States.

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Mitsubishi

The is a group of autonomous Japanese multinational companies in a variety of industries.

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Mitsubishi Materials chemical plant explosion

On 9 January 2014, an explosion occurred at a Mitsubishi Materials chemical plant in Yokkaichi, Mie, Japan, killing at least five people and injuring 17 others.

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Mobile magazine explosion

On May 25, 1865, in Mobile, Alabama, in the Southern United States, an ordnance depot or "magazine" exploded, killing some 300 persons.

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Mobile, Alabama

Mobile is a city and the county seat of Mobile County, Alabama, United States.

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Modugno

Modugno (Barese: Medùgne) is a town and comune of the Metropolitan City of Bari, Apulia, southern Italy.

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Montreal

Montreal is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest in Canada, and the tenth-largest in North America.

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Morogoro

Morogoro is a city located in the eastern part of Tanzania, approximately 196 kilometers (122 miles) west of Dar es Salaam.

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Morogoro Region

Morogoro Region (Mkoa wa Morogoro in Swahili) is one of Tanzania's 31 administrative regions.

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Morowali Industrial Park

The Indonesia Morowali Industrial Park (IMIP) is an industrial park hosting primarily nickel-related industries in Morowali Regency, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia.

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Morowali Regency

Morowali Regency is a regency of Central Sulawesi Province of Indonesia.

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Multan

Multan is a city in Punjab, Pakistan, located on the bank of river Chenab.

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Multifamily residential

Multifamily residential, also known as multidwelling unit (MDU)) is a classification of housing where multiple separate housing units for residential inhabitants are contained within one building or several buildings within one complex. Units can be next to each other (side-by-side units), or stacked on top of each other (top and bottom units).

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Mumbai

Mumbai (ISO:; formerly known as Bombay) is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra.

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Mumbai Harbour

Mumbai Harbour (also English; Bombay Harbour or Front Bay, Marathi Mumba'ī bandar), is a natural deep-water harbour in the southern portion of the Ulhas River estuary.

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Mutiny

Mutiny is a revolt among a group of people (typically of a military, of a crew, or of a crew of pirates) to oppose, change, or remove superiors or their orders.

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Muzaffarpur

Muzaffarpur is a city located in Muzaffarpur district in the Tirhut region of the Indian state of Bihar.

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N'Djamena

N'Djamena is the capital and largest city of Chad.

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N'Djamena ammunition depot explosions

The N'Djamena ammunition depot explosions occurred on 18–19 June 2024, when a military ammunition depot in the district of Goudji exploded, causing at least nine fatalities and at least 46 injuries.

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N'djili Airport

N'djili Airport (Aéroport de N'djili), also known as N'Djili International Airport and Kinshasa International Airport, serves the city of Kinshasa and is the largest of the four international airports in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

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Nagaram, Mamidikuduru mandal

Nagaram is a coastal village in the Konaseema district of Andhra Pradesh in South India.

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Nairobi

Nairobi is the capital and largest city of Kenya.

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Naivasha

Naivasha is a town in Nakuru County, Kenya, north west of Nairobi.

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Nakuru County

Nakuru County is a county in Kenya.

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Nanaimo

Nanaimo is a city of about 100,000 on the east coast of Vancouver Island, in British Columbia, Canada.

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Nanjing

Nanjing is the capital of Jiangsu province in eastern China. The city has 11 districts, an administrative area of, and a population of 9,423,400. Situated in the Yangtze River Delta region, Nanjing has a prominent place in Chinese history and culture, having served as the capital of various Chinese dynasties, kingdoms and republican governments dating from the 3rd century to 1949, and has thus long been a major center of culture, education, research, politics, economy, transport networks and tourism, being the home to one of the world's largest inland ports.

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Narathiwat province

Narathiwat (นราธิวาส,; Malay: Menara) is one of the southern provinces (changwat) of Thailand.

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Narayanganj District

Narayanganj District (nārāẏaṇagañja) is a district in central Bangladesh which is a part of the Dhaka Division.

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Nayarit

Nayarit, officially the Estado Libre y Soberano de Nayarit (Free and Sovereign State of Nayarit), is one of the 31 states that, along with Mexico City, comprise the Federal Entities of Mexico.

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Nedelin catastrophe

The Nedelin catastrophe or Nedelin disaster, known in Russia as the Catastrophe at Baikonur Cosmodrome, was a launch pad accident that occurred on 24 October 1960 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Soviet Kazakhstan.

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New Albany, Indiana

New Albany is a city in Floyd County, Indiana, United States, situated along the Ohio River, opposite Louisville, Kentucky.

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New Karachi Town

New Karachi Town (نیو کراچی ٹاؤن) lies in the northern part of the city Gulberg Town.

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New London School explosion

The New London School explosion occurred on March 18, 1937, when a natural gas leak caused an explosion and destroyed the London School in New London, Texas, United States.

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New London, Texas

New London is a city in Rusk County, Texas, United States.

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New Taipei City

New Taipei City is a special municipality located in northern Taiwan.

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New Windsor, New York

New Windsor is a town in Orange County, New York, United States.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Newcastle upon Tyne

Newcastle upon Tyne, or simply Newcastle (RP), is a city and metropolitan borough in Tyne and Wear, England.

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Niger Delta

The Niger Delta is the delta of the Niger River sitting directly on the Gulf of Guinea on the Atlantic Ocean in Nigeria.

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Nine Years' War (Ireland)

The Nine Years' War, sometimes called Tyrone's Rebellion, took place in Ireland from 1593 to 1603.

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Nishapur

Nishapur (نیشاپور, also help|italic.

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Nishapur train disaster

The Neishapur train disaster was a large explosion in the village of Khayyam near Nishapur in Iran, on 18 February 2004.

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Nitrocellulose

Nitrocellulose (also known as cellulose nitrate, flash paper, flash cotton, guncotton, pyroxylin and flash string, depending on form) is a highly flammable compound formed by nitrating cellulose through exposure to a mixture of nitric acid and sulfuric acid.

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Nixon, New Jersey

Nixon is an unincorporated community located within Edison Township in Middlesex County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.

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Noginsk

Noginsk (Ноги́нск), known as Bogorodsk (Богородск) until 1930, is a city and the administrative center of Noginsky District in Moscow Oblast, Russia, located east of the Moscow Ring Road on the Klyazma River.

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North Lincolnshire

North Lincolnshire is a unitary authority area with borough status in Lincolnshire, England.

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North Pennsylvania Railroad

North Pennsylvania Railroad was a railroad company which served Philadelphia, Montgomery County, Bucks County and Northampton County in Pennsylvania.

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Nova Scotia

Nova Scotia is a province of Canada, located on its east coast.

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NTPC power plant explosion

The NTPC power plant explosion was a boiler explosion that occurred on 1 November 2017 at a newly commissioned 500-megawatt unit of the Feroze Gandhi Unchahar coal-fired power plant.

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Oaks explosion

The Oaks explosion, which happened at a coal mine in West Riding of Yorkshire on 12 December 1866, remains the worst mining disaster in England.

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Ocala, Florida

Ocala is a city in and the county seat of Marion County, Florida, United States.

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Ogere Remo

Ogere (also referred to as Ogere Remo or Ogere-Remo or Ogere - Remo), is an ancient town in the present Remo Division of Ogun State, Nigeria.

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Ogun State

Ogun State is a state in southwestern Nigeria.

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Ohio

Ohio is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

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Ohio River

The Ohio River is a river in the United States.

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Okobie

Okobie or Okogbe is a village in Ahoada West, Rivers State, Nigeria.

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Ontario

Ontario is the southernmost province of Canada.

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Oppau explosion

The Oppau explosion occurred on September 21, 1921, when approximately 4,500 metric tons of a mixture of ammonium sulfate and ammonium nitrate fertilizer stored in a tower silo exploded at a BASF plant in Oppau, now part of Ludwigshafen, Germany, killing 500–600 people and injuring about 2,000 more.

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Oriade

Oriade is a Local Government area in the northeastern part of Osun State.

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Ortuella

Ortuella is a town and municipality located in the province of Biscay, in the Autonomous Community of Basque Country, northern Spain.

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Otedola bridge fire accident

The Otedola Bridge fire accident occurred on the Otedola Bridge at the Lagos end of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway where a tanker lorry fully loaded with petroleum product fell, leaked and exploded on 28 June 2018.

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Ottawa

Ottawa (Canadian French) is the capital city of Canada.

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Oven Fork, Kentucky

Oven Fork is an unincorporated community in Letcher County, Kentucky.

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Oxygen plant

Oxygen plants are industrial systems designed to generate oxygen.

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Oyigbo

Oyigbo also known as Obigbo is a Local Government Area located in Rivers State, Nigeria.

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Oyo State

Oyo State is a state in southwestern Nigeria.

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Pacific War

The Pacific War, sometimes called the Asia–Pacific War or the Pacific Theater, was the theater of World War II that was fought in eastern Asia, the Pacific Ocean, the Indian Ocean, and Oceania.

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Paravur, Kollam

Paravur is a municipality in the Kollam district of Kerala, India.

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Parc Slip Colliery

Parc Slip Colliery was a coal mine near situated at Aberkenfig, near Tondu in Bridgend County Borough, Wales.

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Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city of France.

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Pasadena, Texas

Pasadena is a city in the U.S. state of Texas, located in Harris County.

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Pawłowice, Pszczyna County

Pawłowice is a large village in Pszczyna County, Silesian Voivodeship, in southern Poland.

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Peckfield Colliery disaster

The Peckfield pit disaster was a mining accident at the Peckfield Colliery in Micklefield, West Yorkshire, England, which occurred on Thursday 30 April 1896, killing 63 men and boys out of 105 who were in the pit, plus 19 out of 23 pit ponies.

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Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania, officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania Dutch), is a state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes regions of the United States.

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PEPCON disaster

On May 4, 1988, a fire followed by several explosions occurred at the Pacific Engineering and Production Company of Nevada (PEPCON) chemical plant in Henderson, Nevada.

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Pertamina

PT Pertamina (Persero) is an Indonesian state-owned oil and natural gas corporation, located in Jakarta.

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Peters Cartridge Company

The Peters Cartridge Company was a company located along the Little Miami River in Kings Mills, Ohio, which specialized in gunpowder and ammunition production.

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Petlawad

Petlawad is a town and a Nagar Panchayat in the Jhabua district in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, formerly the Central Provinces.

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Petlawad explosion

On the morning of 12 September 2015, an explosion in the town of Petlawad of the Jhabua district in the state of Madhya Pradesh of India killed 104 people.

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Petrila

Petrila (Petrilla) is a town in the Jiu Valley, Hunedoara County, Transylvania, Romania.

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Petrila Mine disaster

On November 15, 2008, 12 miners died after two explosions at a mine in Petrila, one of six coal mining cities in the Jiu Valley region of Hunedoara County, Romania.

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Phillips Petroleum Company

Phillips Petroleum Company was an American oil company incorporated in 1917 that expanded into petroleum refining, marketing and transportation, natural gas gathering and the chemicals sectors.

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Pike River Mine disaster

The Pike River Mine disaster was a coal mining accident that began on 19 November 2010 in the Pike River Mine, northeast of Greymouth, in the West Coast region of New Zealand's South Island following a methane explosion at approximately 3:44 pm (NZDT, UTC+13).

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Pingxiang

Pingxiang is a medium-sized prefecture-level city located in western Jiangxi province, People's Republic of China.

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Pipeline

A pipeline is a system of pipes for long-distance transportation of a liquid or gas, typically to a market area for consumption.

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Piper Alpha

Piper Alpha was an oil platform located in the North Sea about north-east of Aberdeen, Scotland.

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Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh is a city in and the county seat of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Plum, Pennsylvania

Plum is a borough in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Poland

Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe.

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Poole

Poole is a coastal town and seaport on the south coast of England in the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole unitary authority area in Dorset, England.

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Porga

Porga is a town located in the Atakora Department of Benin.

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Port Chicago disaster

The Port Chicago disaster was a deadly munitions explosion of the ship SS E. A. Bryan on July 17, 1944, at the Port Chicago Naval Magazine in Port Chicago, California, United States.

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Port Chicago, California

Port Chicago was a town on the southern banks of Suisun Bay, in Contra Costa County, California.

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Port Neal fertilizer plant explosion

The Port Neal fertilizer plant explosion occurred on December 13, 1994 in the ammonium nitrate plant at the Terra International, Inc., Port Neal Complex, south of Sioux City, Iowa, United States.

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Port of Beirut

The Port of Beirut (مرفأ بيروت) is the main port in Lebanon on the eastern part of the Saint George Bay on Beirut's northern Mediterranean coast, west of the Beirut River.

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Port of Corpus Christi

The Port of Corpus Christi is the third-largest port in the United States in total waterborne tonnage, largest crude oil export gateway in the nation, second in the United States in LNG exports and the third-largest gateway in the world for crude oil exports.

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Port Wentworth, Georgia

Port Wentworth is a city in Chatham County, Georgia, United States.

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Potomac River

The Potomac River is a major river in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States that flows from the Potomac Highlands in West Virginia to the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland.

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Pottstown, Pennsylvania

Pottstown is a borough in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Prague

Prague (Praha) is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic and the historical capital of Bohemia.

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Prešov

Prešov (Eperjes, Eperies, Rusyn and Ukrainian: Пряшів) is a city in Eastern Slovakia.

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Propane

Propane is a three-carbon alkane with the molecular formula.

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Pueblo Viejo, Magdalena

Puebloviejo is a town and municipality of the Colombian Department of Magdalena.

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Punjab, Pakistan

Punjab (abbr. PB) is a province of Pakistan.

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Puttingal temple fire

On 10 April 2016 at approximately 03:30 AM IST, the Puttingal Temple in Paravur, Kollam, Kerala, India, experienced a fireworks accident after firework celebrations went awry.

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Qala, Malta

Qala (Il-Qala) is an administrative unit of Malta, on the island of Gozo, with a population of 1,929 as of September 2019.

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Qingdao

Qingdao is a prefecture-level city in eastern Shandong Province of China.

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Qixia gold mine accident

The Qixia gold mine accident was a mining accident that occurred on 10 January 2021 in Qixia, Shandong, China.

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Qixia, Shandong

Qixia is a landlocked county-level city of the Shandong Peninsula, and is under the administration of Yantai City, Shandong province.

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Radisson Blu

Radisson Blu is an international chain of hotels operated by Radisson Hotels.

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RAF Fauld explosion

The RAF Fauld explosion was a military accident which occurred at 11:11am on Monday, 27 November 1944 at the RAF Fauld underground munitions storage depot in Staffordshire, England.

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Raleigh County, West Virginia

Raleigh County is a county in the U.S. state of West Virginia.

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Ramses Station rail disaster

The Ramses Station rail disaster occurred on 27 February 2019 in Ramses Station of Cairo, Egypt.

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Raspadskaya mine explosion

The Raspadskaya mine explosion was a mine explosion in the Raspadskaya mine, located near Mezhdurechensk in Kemerovo Oblast, Russia, which occurred on 8 May 2010.

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Ravanusa

Ravanusa (Sicilian: Rivinusa) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Agrigento in the Italian region Sicily, located about southeast of Palermo and about east of Agrigento.

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Río Piedras, Puerto Rico

Río Piedras is a populous district of San Juan, and former town and municipality of Puerto Rico, which was merged with the municipality of San Juan in 1951.

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Río Tercero explosion

The Río Tercero explosion was a series of explosions in Río Tercero, Córdoba, Argentina, that happened on 3 November 1995 at Río Tercero Military Factory, an ammunition factory, during Carlos Menem's presidency.

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Río Tercero, Córdoba

Río Tercero is a city in the center of Argentina, 96 km from Córdoba city, 35 km east of the city of Embalse, and 386 m above sea level.

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Realty Building explosion

On May 28, 2024, a large and powerful explosion destroyed most of the first floor of the Realty Building in the downtown district of Youngstown, Ohio, US, and severely damaged the floors above it, killing one bank employee and injuring seven.

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Regent's Park

Regent's Park (officially The Regent's Park) is one of the Royal Parks of London.

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Republic of China (1912–1949)

The Republic of China (ROC), or simply China, as a sovereign state was based on mainland China from 1912 to 1949, when the government retreated to Taiwan, where it continues to be based.

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Reynosa

Reynosa is a border city in the northern part of the state of Tamaulipas, in Mexico which also holds the municipal seat of Reynosa Municipality. The city is located on the southern bank of the Rio Grande in the international Reynosa–McAllen metropolitan area, directly across the Mexico–United States border from Hidalgo, Texas.

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Richmond, Nova Scotia

Richmond was a Canadian urban community occupying the northern extremity of the peninsular City of Halifax.

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Rivers State

Rivers State, also known as Rivers, is a state in the Niger Delta region of southern Nigeria (Old Eastern Region).

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Riyadh

Riyadh (ar-Riyāḍ) is the capital and largest city of Saudi Arabia.

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Rockton, Illinois

Rockton is a village in Winnebago County, Illinois.

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Rosario

Rosario is the largest city in the central Argentine province of Santa Fe.

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Roseville, California

Roseville is the most populous city in Placer County, California, located within the Sacramento metropolitan area.

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Rosny-sous-Bois

Rosny-sous-Bois is a commune in the eastern suburbs of Paris, France.

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Rostov Oblast

Rostov Oblast (p) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast), located in the Southern Federal District.

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Royal Air Force

The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the air and space force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies.

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Royal Netherlands Army

The Royal Netherlands Army (Koninklijke Landmacht, KL) is the land branch of the Netherlands Armed Forces.

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Russia

Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia.

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Russian separatist forces in Ukraine

Russian separatist forces in Ukraine, primarily the People's Militias of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) and the Luhansk People's Republic (LPR), were pro-Russian paramilitaries in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine.

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Ryazan Oblast

Ryazan Oblast (Ryazanskaya oblast') is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast).

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Ryongchon County

Ryongch'ŏn County is a ''kun'' (county) in North P'yǒngan province, North Korea, at the mouth of the Yalu River.

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Ryongchon disaster

The Ryongchŏn disaster was a train disaster that occurred on 22 April 2004 in the town of Ryongchŏn, North Korea, near the border with the People's Republic of China.

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Saint-Laurent-de-la-Salanque

Saint-Laurent-de-la-Salanque (Sant Llorenç de la Salanca) is a commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France.

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Saint-Laurent-de-la-Salanque explosion

On 14 February 2022, an explosion caused a fire in Rue Arago in Saint-Laurent-de-la-Salanque, in the Pyrénées-Orientales department of France, killing eight people and injuring thirty others.

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San Bruno pipeline explosion

The San Bruno pipeline explosion occurred at 6:11 pm PDT on September 9, 2010, in San Bruno, California, when a diameter steel natural gas pipeline owned by Pacific Gas & Electric exploded into flames in the Crestmoor residential neighborhood west of San Francisco International Airport near Skyline Boulevard and San Bruno Avenue.

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San Bruno, California

San Bruno is a city in San Mateo County, California, United States, incorporated in 1914.

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San Cristóbal, Dominican Republic

San Cristóbal is a city in the southern region of Dominican Republic.

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San Juanico disaster

The San Juanico disaster involved a series of fires and explosions at a liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) tank farm in the settlement of San Juan Ixhuatepec (popularly known as San Juanico), municipality of Tlalnepantla de Baz, State of Mexico, Mexico on 19 November 1984.

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San Martín Texmelucan

San Martín Texmelucan de Labastida is a city in the west-central part of the state of Puebla in Mexico, adjacent to the southwest corner of the state of Tlaxcala.

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Santo Domingo

Santo Domingo (meaning "Saint Dominic" but verbatim "Holy Sunday"), once known as Santo Domingo de Guzmán, known as Ciudad Trujillo between 1936 and 1961, is the capital and largest city of the Dominican Republic and the largest metropolitan area in the Caribbean by population.

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Sapele

Entandrophragma cylindricum is a tree of the genus Entandrophragma of the family Meliaceae.

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Sapele, Nigeria

Sapele is a primary town and one of the Local Government Areas of Delta State, Nigeria.

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Sarawak

Sarawak is a state of Malaysia.

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Sawahlunto

Sawahlunto (Jawi) is a city in West Sumatra, Indonesia.

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Sayreville, New Jersey

Sayreville is a borough in Middlesex County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.

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Scofield Mine disaster

The Scofield Mine disaster was a mining explosion that occurred at the Winter Quarters coal mine on May 1, 1900.

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Scofield, Utah

Scofield is a town in Carbon County, Utah, United States.

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Scotia Mine

The Scotia Mine was a coal mine that operated in the community of Oven Fork in Letcher County, Kentucky.

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Scotland

Scotland (Scots: Scotland; Scottish Gaelic: Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Seest fireworks disaster

The fireworks accident in Seest was a disaster that occurred on 3 November 2004, when the N. P. Johnsens Fyrværkerifabrik fireworks warehouse exploded in Seest, a suburb of Kolding, Denmark.

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Senghenydd

Senghenydd (Senghennydd) is a former mining village in the community of Aber Valley in South Wales, approximately four miles northwest of the town of Caerphilly.

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Senghenydd colliery disaster

The Senghenydd colliery disaster, also known as the Senghenydd explosion (Tanchwa Senghennydd), occurred at the Universal Colliery in Senghenydd, near Caerphilly, Glamorgan, Wales, on 14 October 1913.

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Sergeli

Sergeli (Sirgʻali tumani, Sergeliysky rayon) is one of 12 districts (tuman) of Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan.

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Shandong

Shandong is a coastal province in East China.

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Shanxi

Shanxi is an inland province of China and is part of the North China region.

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Shenjiying

The Shenjiying, which directly translates to "Divine Machine Battalion", was one of Ming dynasty's three elite military divisions stationed around Beijing collectively called the "Three Great Battalions" (labels), and was famous for its utilization of firearm weaponries.

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Shilovsky District

Shilovsky District (Ши́ловский райо́н) is an administrativeLaw #128-ZS and municipalLaw #102-OZ district (raion), one of the twenty-five in Ryazan Oblast, Russia.

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Shimoga

Shimoga, officially Shivamogga, is a city and the district headquarters of Shimoga district in the central part of the state of Karnataka, India.

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Ship breaking

Ship breaking (also known as ship recycling, ship demolition, ship scrapping, ship dismantling, or ship cracking) is a type of ship disposal involving the breaking up of ships either as a source of parts, which can be sold for re-use, or for the extraction of raw materials, chiefly scrap.

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Sibley Quarry explosion

On January 30, 1900, the Sibley Quarry just north of Trenton, Michigan was the site of an accidental explosion of over pounds of dynamite.

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Sicily

Sicily (Sicilia,; Sicilia,, officially Regione Siciliana) is an island in the central Mediterranean Sea, south of the Italian Peninsula in continental Europe and is one of the 20 regions of Italy.

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Siding (rail)

A siding, in rail terminology, is a low-speed track section distinct from a running line or through route such as a main line, branch line, or spur.

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Sidoarjo mud flow

The Sidoarjo mud flow (commonly known as Lumpur Lapindo, wherein lumpur is the Indonesian word for mud) is the result of an erupting mud volcano in the subdistrict of Porong, Sidoarjo in East Java, Indonesia that has been in eruption since May 2006.

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Sidoarjo Regency

Sidoarjo Regency (Kabupatèn Sidaharja) is a regency in East Java, Indonesia.

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Silesian Voivodeship

Silesian Voivodeship (województwo śląskie) is a voivodeship, or province, in southern Poland centered on the historic region known as Upper Silesia (Górny Śląsk), with Katowice serving as its capital.

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Silo

A silo is a structure for storing bulk materials.

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Silver Spring, Maryland

Silver Spring is a census-designated place (CDP) in southeastern Montgomery County, Maryland, United States, near Washington, D.C. Although officially unincorporated, it is an edge city with a population of 81,015 at the 2020 census, making it the fifth-most populous place in Maryland after Baltimore, Columbia, Germantown, and Waldorf.

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Sitakunda

Sitakunda or Sitakunda Town (সীতাকুণ্ড শহর) is an administrative centre and the sole municipality (Paurashava) of Sitakunda Upazila in Chattogram District, located in Chattogram Division, Bangladesh.

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Sivakasi

Sivakasi is a city in Virudhunagar District in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

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Sivakasi factory explosion

The 2012 Sivakasi factory explosion was an explosion at the Om Sakthi Fireworks Industries fireworks factory in Sivakasi, India, on 5 September 2012.

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Skikda

Skikda (سكيكدة; formerly Philippeville from 1838 to 1962 and Rusicade in ancient times) is a city in northeastern Algeria and a port on the Mediterranean.

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Sodium nitrate

Sodium nitrate is the chemical compound with the formula.

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Sofia Province

Sofia Province (translit) is a province (oblast) of Bulgaria.

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Soma mine disaster

On 13 May 2014, blasting at Eynez coal mine in Soma, Manisa, Turkey, caused an underground mine fire, which burned until 15 May.

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Soma, Manisa

Soma is a municipality and district of Manisa Province, Turkey.

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South Kivu

South Kivu (Jimbo la Kivu Kusini; Sud-Kivu) is one of 26 provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

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South Wales Coalfield

The South Wales Coalfield (Maes glo De Cymru) extends across Pembrokeshire, Carmarthenshire, Swansea, Neath Port Talbot, Bridgend, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Merthyr Tydfil, Caerphilly, Blaenau Gwent and Torfaen.

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South Yorkshire

South Yorkshire is a ceremonial county in the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England.

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Space Shuttle Challenger disaster

On January 28, 1986, the Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' broke apart 73 seconds into its flight, killing all seven crew members aboard.

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St Helier

St Helier (Jèrriais:; Saint-Hélier) is the capital of Jersey, the largest of the Channel Islands in the English Channel.

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Staffordshire

Staffordshire (postal abbreviation Staffs.) is a landlocked ceremonial county in the West Midlands of England.

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Stairfoot is a ward in Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England.

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Staten Island

Staten Island is the southernmost borough of New York City, coextensive with Richmond County and situated at the southernmost point of New York.

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Steam locomotive

A steam locomotive is a locomotive that provides the force to move itself and other vehicles by means of the expansion of steam.

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Steamboat Inspection Service

The Steamboat Inspection Service was a United States agency created in 1871 to safeguard lives and property at sea.

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Stockline Plastics factory explosion

On 11 May 2004, the ICL Plastics factory (commonly referred to as Stockline Plastics factory), in the Woodside district of Maryhill, Glasgow in western Scotland, exploded.

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Sulfur

Sulfur (also spelled sulphur in British English) is a chemical element; it has symbol S and atomic number 16.

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Sultana (steamboat)

Sultana was a commercial side-wheel steamboat which exploded and sank on the Mississippi River on April 27, 1865, killing 1,167 people in what remains the worst maritime disaster in United States history.

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Sunnyside, Utah

Sunnyside is a former city in Carbon County, Utah, United States.

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Suphan Buri province

Suphan Buri (สุพรรณบุรี) located in the central region of Thailand, is one of the country's 76 provinces (จังหวัด, changwat), the first-level administrative divisions.

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Sutatausa

Sutatausa is a municipality and town of Colombia in the Ubaté Province, part of the department of Cundinamarca.

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T. A. Gillespie Company Shell Loading Plant explosion

The T. A. Gillespie Company Shell Loading Plant explosion, sometimes called the Morgan Munitions Depot explosion or similar titles, began at 7:36 pm EDT on Friday, October 4, 1918, at a World War I ammunition plant in the Morgan area of Sayreville in Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States.

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Taguig

Taguig, officially the City of Taguig (Lungsod ng Taguig), is a coastal city located in eastern shores of Metro Manila.

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Taliban

The Taliban (lit), which also refers to itself by its state name, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is an Afghan militant movement with an ideology comprising elements of Pashtun nationalism and the Deobandi movement of Islamic fundamentalism.

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Tamil Nadu

Tamil Nadu (TN) is the southernmost state of India.

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Tangerang

Tangerang (Sundanese) is a city in the province of Banten, Indonesia.

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Tangerang fireworks disaster

The Tangerang fireworks disaster occurred on 26 October 2017 at the PT.

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Tank truck

A tank truck, gas truck, fuel truck, or tanker truck (American English) or tanker (British English) is a motor vehicle designed to carry liquids or gases on roads.

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Tarragona

Tarragona (Tarraco) is a coastal city and municipality in Catalonia (Spain).

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Tashkent

Tashkent, or Toshkent in Uzbek, is the capital and largest city of Uzbekistan.

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Tashkent explosion

The Tashkent explosion was an explosion that occurred in a warehouse in Sergeli District of Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan, on 28 September 2023, killing one person and injuring 162.

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Tehran

Tehran (تهران) or Teheran is the capital and largest city of Iran as well as the largest in Tehran Province.

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Tennessee

Tennessee, officially the State of Tennessee, is a landlocked state in the Southeastern region of the United States.

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Tequila

Tequila is a distilled beverage made from the blue agave plant, primarily in the area surrounding the city of Tequila northwest of Guadalajara, and in the Jaliscan Highlands (Los Altos de Jalisco) of the central western Mexican state of Jalisco.

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Tequila, Jalisco

Santiago de Tequila (Tequillan, Tecuila "place of tribute") is a Mexican town and municipality located in the state of Jalisco about 60 km from the city of Guadalajara.

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Tete Province

Tete is a province of Mozambique.

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Texas

Texas (Texas or Tejas) is the most populous state in the South Central region of the United States.

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Texas City disaster

The 1947 Texas City disaster was an industrial accident that occurred on April 16, 1947, in the port of Texas City, Texas, United States, located in Galveston Bay.

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Texas City refinery explosion

The Texas City refinery explosion occurred on March 23, 2005, when a flammable hydrocarbon vapor cloud ignited and violently exploded at the isomerization process unit of the BP oil refinery in Texas City, Texas, killing 15 workers, injuring 180 others and severely damaging the refinery.

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Texas City, Texas

Texas City is a city in Galveston County, Texas, United States.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Irish Times

The Irish Times is an Irish daily broadsheet newspaper and online digital publication.

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The Korea Times

The Korea Times is a daily English-language newspaper in South Korea.

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The London Encyclopaedia

The London Encyclopaedia, first published in 1983, is a 1,100-page historical reference work on London, the capital city of the United Kingdom, covering the whole of the Greater London area.

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The Philippine Star

The Philippine Star (self-styled The Philippine STAR) is an English-language newspaper in the Philippines and the flagship brand of the Philstar Media Group.

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The Times of India

The Times of India, also known by its abbreviation TOI, is an Indian English-language daily newspaper and digital news media owned and managed by The Times Group.

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Tianjin

Tianjin is a municipality and metropolis in Northern China on the shore of the Bohai Sea.

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Tianmen

Tianmen is a sub-prefecture-level city (sometimes considered a county-level city) in central Hubei Province, China.

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Tianqi Emperor

The Tianqi Emperor (23 December 1605 – 30 September 1627), personal name Zhu Youjiao, was the 16th emperor of the Ming dynasty, reigning from 1620 to 1627.

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Tigbao, Zamboanga del Sur

Tigbao, officially the Municipality of Tigbao (Lungsod sa Tigbao; Subanen: Benwa Tigbao; Chavacano: Municipalidad de Tigbao; Bayan ng Tigbao), is a 5th class municipality in the province of Zamboanga del Sur, Philippines.

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Titas Gas

The Titas Gas Transmission and Distribution Company (তিতাস গ্যাস Titas Gas) is the natural gas distributor in Bangladesh, with an 80% market share.

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Tlahuelilpan pipeline explosion

On 18 January 2019, a pipeline transporting gasoline exploded in the town of Tlahuelilpan, in the Mexican state of Hidalgo.

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TNT

Trinitrotoluene, more commonly known as TNT (and more specifically 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene), and by its preferred IUPAC name 2-methyl-1,3,5-trinitrobenzene, is a chemical compound with the formula C6H2(NO2)3CH3.

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Tongi

Tongi (টঙ্গী) is a major township in Gazipur, Bangladesh, with a population of 350,000.

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Tongxu County

Tongxu County is a county in the east-central part of Henan province, China.

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Tori-Bossito

Tori-Bossito is a town, arrondissement, and commune in the Atlantique Department of southern Benin.

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Toronto

Toronto is the most populous city in Canada and the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario.

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Toronto propane explosion

The Toronto propane explosion (also known as the Sunrise Propane incident) was a series of explosions and ensuing fire that took place on the morning of August 10, 2008, in the Downsview neighbourhood of North York, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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Torre Ejecutiva Pemex explosion

On 31 January 2013 in Mexico City, an explosion caused by a gas leak occurred beneath Building B-2 at the Torre Ejecutiva Pemex (Pemex Executive Tower), a skyscraper complex that is the headquarters of Pemex, the Mexican state oil company.

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Totota

Totota is a small town in Bong County, Liberia with a population between 5,000 and 8,000 depending upon the season.

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Toulouse

Toulouse (Tolosa) is the prefecture of the French department of Haute-Garonne and of the larger region of Occitania.

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Toulouse chemical factory explosion

On 21 September 2001, an explosion occurred at the AZF (French initialism for AZote Fertilisant, i.e. nitrogen fertiliser) fertiliser factory in Toulouse, France, belonging to the Grande Paroisse branch of the Total group.

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Tradeston Flour Mills explosion

On 9 July 1872 the Tradeston Flour Mills, in Glasgow, Scotland, exploded.

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Trenčín Region

The Trenčín Region (Trenčiansky kraj,; Trenčínský kraj; Trencséni kerület) is one of the eight Slovak administrative regions.

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Trenton, Michigan

Trenton is a city in Wayne County, Michigan, United States.

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Tufts Cove, Nova Scotia

Tufts Cove is an urban neighbourhood in the community of Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada.

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Tultepec

Tultepec (Tōltepec, Otomi) is a city and municipality located in State of Mexico, Mexico.

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Turkish cuisine

Turkish cuisine is the cuisine of Turkey and the Turkish diaspora.

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Ufa train disaster

The Ufa train disaster was a railway accident that occurred on 4 June 1989, in Iglinsky District, Bashkir ASSR, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union, when an explosion killed 575 people and injured 800 more.

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Ulsan

Ulsan, officially the Ulsan Metropolitan City, is South Korea's seventh-largest metropolitan city and the eighth-largest city overall, with a population of over 1.1 million inhabitants.

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Um El Faroud

Um El Faroud was a Libyan-owned single screw motor tanker.

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Unchahar

Unchahar is a town and nagar panchayat in Raebareli district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.

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Union Army

During the American Civil War, the United States Army, the land force that fought to preserve the collective Union of the states, was often referred to as the Union Army, the Grand Army of the Republic, the Federal Army, or the Northern Army.

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Upper Big Branch Mine disaster

The Upper Big Branch Mine disaster occurred on April 5, 2010 roughly underground in Raleigh County, West Virginia at Massey Energy's Upper Big Branch coal mine located in Montcoal.

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Uruzgan Province

Uruzgan (Pashto:; Dari), also spelled as Urozgan or Oruzgan, is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan.

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USS Princeton (1843)

USS Princeton was a screw steam warship of the United States Navy.

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Valletta

Valletta (il-Belt Valletta) is the capital city of Malta and one of its 68 council areas.

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Veterinarian

A veterinarian (vet) is a medical professional who practices veterinary medicine.

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Villa El Salvador

The Savior Town District is an urban, largely residential coastal district on the outskirts of Lima, Peru.

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Virudhunagar

Virudhunagar is a city and the administrative headquarter of the Virudhunagar district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

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Virudhunagar district

Virudhunagar District is a district (an administrative district) of Tamil Nadu state in south India.

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Volgograd

Volgograd (p), formerly Tsaritsyn (label) (1589–1925) and Stalingrad (label) (1925–1961), is the largest city and the administrative centre of Volgograd Oblast, Russia.

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Vorkuta

Vorkuta (Воркута́; Vörkuta; Nenets for "the abundance of bears", "bear corner") is a coal-mining town in the Komi Republic, Russia, situated just north of the Arctic Circle in the Pechora coal basin at the river Vorkuta.

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Vorkuta mine disaster

In February 2016, a series of explosions caused the deaths of 36 people, including 31 miners and five rescue workers, at the Severnaya coal mine 10 kilometres north of the city of Vorkuta, Komi Republic, Russia.

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Voronezh

Voronezh (Воро́неж) is a city and the administrative centre of Voronezh Oblast in southwestern Russia straddling the Voronezh River, located from where it flows into the Don River.

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Wagga Wagga

Wagga Wagga (informally called Wagga) is a major regional city in the Riverina region of New South Wales, Australia.

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Wales

Wales (Cymru) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Wanggongchang Explosion

The Wanggongchang Explosion (t), also known as the Great Tianqi Explosion (labels), Wanggongchang Calamity (labels) or Beijing Explosive Incident in the late Ming dynasty (labels), was a catastrophic explosion that occurred on May 30, 1626, during the late reign of the Tianqi Emperor at the heavily populated Ming Chinese capital of Beijing, and reportedly killed around 20,000 people.

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War of the Fourth Coalition

The War of the Fourth Coalition (Guerre de la Quatrième Coalition) was a war spanning 1806–1807 that saw a multinational coalition fight against Napoleon's French Empire, subsequently being defeated.

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Warehouse

A warehouse is a building for storing goods.

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Warri

The city of Warri is an oil hub within South-South Nigeria and houses an annex of the Delta State Government House.

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Wenling

Wenling (Wenling dialect: Ueng-ling Zy) is a coastal county-level city in the municipal region of Taizhou, in southeastern Zhejiang province, China.

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West Bengal

West Bengal (Bengali: Poshchim Bongo,, abbr. WB) is a state in the eastern portion of India.

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West Coast Region

The West Coast (lit) is a region of New Zealand on the west coast of the South Island.

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West Fertilizer Company explosion

On April 17, 2013, an ammonium nitrate explosion occurred at the West Fertilizer Company storage and distribution facility in West, Texas, United States (north of Waco), while emergency services personnel were responding to a fire at the facility.

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West Java

West Java (Jawa Barat, ᮏᮝ ᮊᮥᮜᮧᮔ᮪|Jawa Kulon) is an Indonesian province on the western part of the island of Java, with its provincial capital in Bandung.

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West Pharmaceutical Services explosion

The West Pharmaceutical Plant explosion was an industrial disaster that occurred on January 29, 2003 at the West Pharmaceutical Plant in Kinston, North Carolina, United States.

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West Reading, Pennsylvania

West Reading is a borough in Berks County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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West Sumatra

West Sumatra (Sumatera Barat) is a province of Indonesia.

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West, Texas

West is a city in McLennan County, Texas, United States.

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Westville, Nova Scotia

Westville is a town in Pictou County, Nova Scotia, Canada.

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Whitemarsh Township, Pennsylvania

Whitemarsh Township is a home rule municipality in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Williams Olefins Plant explosion

The Williams Olefins Plant explosion occurred on June 13, 2013 at a petrochemical plant located in Geismar, an unincorporated and largely industrial area southeast of Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

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Winetavern Street

Winetavern Street is a street in the medieval area of Dublin, Ireland.

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WOIO

WOIO (channel 19) is a television station licensed to Shaker Heights, Ohio, United States, serving the Cleveland area as an affiliate of CBS.

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Woodbury County, Iowa

Woodbury County is a county located in the U.S. state of Iowa.

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World Health Organization

The World Health Organization (WHO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for international public health.

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World War I

World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.

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Xiantao

Xiantao is a sub-prefecture-level city in the east of Hubei province, China.

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Yan'an

Yan'an is a prefecture-level city in the Shaanbei region of Shaanxi province, China, bordering Shanxi to the east and Gansu to the west.

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Yancheng

Yancheng, formerly known as Yandu, is a prefecture-level city in northeastern Jiangsu province, People's Republic of China.

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Yanjiao

Yanjiao is a town under the administration of Sanhe City in central Hebei province, bordering Tongzhou District, Beijing across the Chaobai River to the west, located east of Tiananmen Square and west of the urban area of Sanhe.

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Yaoundé

Yaoundé is the capital of Cameroon and, with a population of more than 2.8 million, the second-largest city in the country after the port city Douala.

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Yaoundé train explosion

The Yaoundé train explosion was the catastrophic fire following the derailment and collision of two tanker trains hauling crude oil through the capital of Cameroon, Yaoundé.

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Yenagoa

Yenagoa is a Local Government Area and capital city of Bayelsa State, Southern Nigeria.

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Yerevan

Yerevan (Երևան; sometimes spelled Erevan) is the capital and largest city of Armenia, as well as one of the world's oldest continuously inhabited cities.

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Yevpatoria

Yevpatoria (Yevpatoriia; Yevpatoriya;; Eupatoría) is a city in Western Crimea, north of Kalamita Bay.

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Yinchuan

Yinchuan is the capital of the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, China, and was the capital of the Tangut-led Western Xia dynasty.

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Yizhou District, Hechi

Yizhou, formerly Yishan County (宜山县), is a district under the administration of Hechi City, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China.

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Yokkaichi

is a city located in Mie Prefecture, Japan.

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Yorkshire

Yorkshire is an area of Northern England which was historically a county.

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Youngstown, Ohio

Youngstown is a city in and the county seat of Mahoning County, Ohio, United States.

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Yuzhong, Chongqing

Yuzhong District is the central district and heart of Chongqing municipality.

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Zalău

Zalău (unofficial and former official name: Zalău (Zillenmarkt or Waltenberg, Zilah, Zile) is the seat of Sălaj County, Romania. In 2021, its estimated population was 52,359.

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Zalău explosion

The Zalău explosion occurred on September 14, 2007 in a block of flats in Zalău, Romania as the result of a gas leak.

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Zamboanga del Sur

Zamboanga del Sur (Cebuano: Habagatang Zamboanga; Subanen: S'helatan Sembwangan/Sembwangan dapit Shelatan; Salatan Sambuangan, Jawi: سلاتن سامبواڠن; Katimugang Zamboanga), officially the Province of Zamboanga del Sur, is a province in the Philippines located in the Zamboanga Peninsula region in Mindanao.

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Zonguldak Province

Zonguldak Province (Zonguldak ili) is a province along the western Black Sea coast region of Turkey.

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Zygi

Zygi (Ζύγι; Terazi) is a small village on the south coast of Cyprus, between Limassol and Larnaca.

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1634 Valletta explosion

On 12 September 1634, a Hospitaller gunpowder factory in Valletta, Malta accidentally blew up, killing 22 people and causing severe damage to a number of buildings.

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1806 Birgu polverista explosion

On 18 July 1806, approximately of gunpowder stored in a magazine (polverista) in Birgu, Malta, mistakenly detonated.

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1885 Dynamite explosion

On the September 4, 1885 a wagon loaded with dynamite exploded at Douro, Ontario, Canada, killing two men and their horses.

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1887 Nanaimo mine explosion

The Nanaimo mine explosion occurred on May 3, 1887, in Nanaimo, British Columbia killing 150 miners.

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1924 Nixon Nitration Works disaster

The 1924 Nixon Nitration Works disaster was an explosion and fire that claimed many lives and destroyed several square miles of New Jersey factories.

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1944 Bombay explosion

The Bombay explosion (or Bombay docks explosion) occurred on 14 April 1944, in the Victoria Dock of Bombay, British India (now Mumbai, India) when the British freighter SS ''Fort Stikine'' caught fire and was destroyed in two giant blasts, scattering debris, sinking surrounding ships and setting fire to the area, killing around 800 to 1,300 people.

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1944 explosion in Aarhus

The 1944 explosion in Aarhus or the 4th of July Disaster (4 Juli Katastrofen) was an explosion in the city of Aarhus, Denmark when a barge loaded with ammunition exploded in the harbor, killing 39 people and injuring another 250.

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1945 Edgewood Arsenal explosion

The 1945 Edgewood Arsenal explosion killed twelve munitions workers and injured more than fifty on May 25, 1945.

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1950 Chicago streetcar crash

The 1950 CTA Streetcar Crash, also known as the Green Hornet Streetcar Disaster, occurred on May 25, 1950, when a Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) streetcar collided with a gasoline truck in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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1955 Le Mans disaster

The 1955 Le Mans disaster was a major crash that occurred on 11 June 1955 during the 24 Hours of Le Mans motor race at Circuit de la Sarthe in Le Mans, Sarthe, France.

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1963 Indiana State Fairgrounds Coliseum gas explosion

The Indiana State Fairgrounds Coliseum gas explosion took place in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States, on October 31, 1963; 81 people died and about 400 others were injured.

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1973 Roseville Yard Disaster

The Roseville Yard Disaster was an accidental explosion and fire that occurred on April 28, 1973, at a major Southern Pacific rail yard in the city of Roseville, California.

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1973 Staten Island gas explosion

On February 10, 1973, a gas explosion occurred inside a Texas Eastern Transmission Pipeline tank storing liquefied natural gas in the Bloomfield neighborhood of Staten Island, New York City, while 42 workers were cleaning the tank.

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1980 Damascus Titan missile explosion

The Damascus Titan missile explosion (also called the Damascus accident) was a 1980 U.S. nuclear weapons incident involving a Titan II Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM).

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1988 Poole explosion

On 21 June 1988, a large fire and explosion engulfed the BDH chemical plant in Poole, Dorset, England.

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1990 ARCO explosion

An explosion at the ARCO Chemical (ACC) Channelview, Texas petrochemical plant killed 17 people and injured five others on July 5, 1990.

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1992 Guadalajara explosions

A series of ten explosions took place on April 22, 1992, in the downtown district of Analco Colonia Atlas in Guadalajara city, Jalisco state, Mexico.

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1994 Kenpeng mine disaster

The 1994 Kenpeng mine disaster occurred between the week of August 1 to August 5, 1994, at Guangxi Kenpeng mine at the People's Republic of China.

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1998 Esso Longford fire

On 25 September 1998 a catastrophic accident occurred at the Esso natural gas plant in Longford, Victoria, Australia.

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1998 Jesse pipeline explosion

On October 18, 1998, a pipeline explosion occurred in the community of Jesse (geographical coordinates), southeast of Lagos, Nigeria.

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2002 Lagos armoury explosion

The Lagos armoury explosion was the accidental detonation of a large stock of high explosives at a military storage facility in the city of Lagos, Nigeria, on 27 January 2002.

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2003 Etobicoke gas explosion

The 2003 Etobicoke gas explosion was a disaster which occurred on April 24, 2003, after a backhoe operated by Enbridge contractor Precision Utility breached a pipeline on Bloor Street in the Etobicoke district of Toronto, Ontario.

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2004 Arkhangelsk explosion

On March 16, 2004, an explosion destroyed a corner section of a nine-storey Soviet-era apartment building in Arkhangelsk, Russia.

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2005 Jilin chemical plant explosions

The Jilin chemical plant explosions were a series of explosions which occurred on November 13, 2005, in the No.102 Petrochemical Plant in Jilin City, Jilin Province, China, over the period of an hour.

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2005 Sunjiawan mine disaster

The Sunjiawan mine disaster was a mine disaster that occurred on 14 February 2005 in Fuxin city, Liaoning province, in the northeastern part of the People's Republic of China.

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2006 Abule Egba pipeline explosion

The 2006 Abule Egba pipeline explosion is a disaster that occurred in the heavily populated neighborhood of Abule Egba in Lagos, Nigeria, on 26 December 2006, killing hundreds of people.

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2006 Atlas Creek pipeline explosion

The 2006 Atlas Creek pipeline explosion was a disaster that occurred on 12 May 2006 at Atlas Creek Island (sometimes called Isanki Island), near Lagos, Nigeria, when a pressurized petrol pipeline that had been ruptured by thieves exploded, killing 150 people.

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2006 Falk Corporation explosion

The Falk Corporation explosion refers to a large and fatal propane gas explosion at a Falk Corporation building in the industrial Menomonee River Valley neighborhood of Milwaukee, Wisconsin on December 6, 2006.

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2007 Freetown explosions

On 20 December 2007, a series of explosions occurred in the shopping district of Free Street in downtown Freetown, Sierra Leone, killing 18 people while injuring at least five more.

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2007 Glorietta explosion

The 2007 Glorietta explosion occurred in the Glorietta 2 section of the Glorietta shopping complex at Ayala Center in Makati, Metropolitan Manila, in the Philippines, on October 19, 2007, at around 1:25 PM PST.

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2007 Maputo arms depot explosion

The 2007 Maputo arms depot explosion were a series of explosions, which occurred in the afternoon of March 22, 2007, from around 16:45 to at least 18:00, in the Malhazine suburb of Maputo, capital city of Mozambique.

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2008 Chelopechene explosions

The 2008 Chelopechene explosions were a series of explosions that began early on Thursday morning 3 July 2008 at around 6:30 am local time at a munitions depot in the suburb of Chelopechene, 10 kilometres east of the centre of the Bulgarian capital, Sofia.

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2008 Dubai explosion

The 2008 Dubai explosion was an industrial explosion at a fireworks factory in the Al Quoz Industrial area on March 26, 2008, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

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2008 Gërdec explosions

At approximately 12 p.m. local time on Saturday, March 15th, 2008, an ex-military ammunition depot in the village of Gërdec in the Vorë Municipality of Albania (14 kilometers from Tirana, the nation's capital), U.S. and Albanian munitions experts were preparing to destroy stockpiles of obsolete ammunition.

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2008 Georgia Imperial Sugar refinery explosion

On 7 February 2008, fourteen people were killed and thirty-six injured during a dust explosion at a refinery owned by Imperial Sugar in Port Wentworth, Georgia, United States.

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2008 Guangxi chemical plant explosions

A series of explosions caused by an industrial accident occurred on August 26, 2008 in Yizhou city in Guangxi province in southwest China.

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2008 Ijegun pipeline explosion

On 15 May 2008 a pipeline explosion occurred in the community of Ijegun, a suburb north of Lagos, Nigeria.

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2008 Kazan gas explosion

The Kazan gas explosion occurred on January 9, 2008, destroying an entire corner of a three-story khrushchyovka-style apartment building on Malaya Pechyorskaya Street in the Aviastroitelny District of Kazan, Tatarstan, Russia.

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2008 Yevpatoria gas explosion

The 2008 Yevpatoria gas explosion took place on December 24, 2008, with an explosion in an apartment block in Yevpatoria, a Ukrainian Black Sea resort town.

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2009 Cataño oil refinery fire

The 2009 Cataño oil refinery fire, also known as the CAPECO explosion, was a fire that began with an explosion on October 23, 2009, and was extinguished on October 25 at the Caribbean Petroleum Corporation (CAPECO) oil refinery and oil depot in Bayamón, Puerto Rico.

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2009 Chongqing mine blast

The 2009 Chongqing mine blast was a gas explosion that occurred at a coal mine in Southwestern China in Qijiang County, Chongqing.

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2009 Handlová mine blast

The 2009 Handlová mine blast occurred on 10 August 2009 roughly 330 metres (1,080 ft) underground in Trenčín Region, Slovakia at Hornonitrianske Bane Prievidza, a.s.s (HNB) coal mine located in the town of Handlová.

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2009 Heilongjiang mine explosion

The 2009 Heilongjiang mine explosion was a mining accident that occurred on November 21, 2009, near Hegang in the Heilongjiang province, northeastern China, which killed 108 people.

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2010 Connecticut power plant explosion

The 2010 Connecticut power plant explosion occurred at the Kleen Energy Systems power station in Middletown, Connecticut, United States at 11:17 am EST on February 7, 2010.

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2010 Nanjing chemical plant explosion

The 2010 Nanjing chemical plant explosion occurred on July 28, 2010 in Qixia District, Nanjing, Jiangsu province, People's Republic of China.

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2010 Puebla oil pipeline explosion

The 2010 Puebla oil pipeline explosion was a large oil pipeline explosion that occurred at 5:50 am CST on December 19, 2010, in the city of San Martín Texmelucan de Labastida, Puebla, Mexico.

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2010 Tesoro Anacortes Refinery disaster

The 2010 Tesoro Anacortes Refinery disaster was an industrial accident that occurred at the Tesoro Anacortes Refinery in Anacortes, Washington on April 2, 2010.

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2010 Zonguldak mine disaster

The 2010 Zonguldak mine disaster occurred in Zonguldak Province, Turkey, on May 17, when 30 miners died in a firedamp explosion at the Karadon coal mine.

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2011 Dar es Salaam explosions

The 2011 Dar es Salaam explosions were a series of store ammunition explosions at an ammunition depot in Gongolamboto ward of Ilala District of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, that killed 20–32 people.

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2011 Nairobi pipeline fire

The 2011 Nairobi pipeline fire was caused by an explosion secondary to a fuel spill in the Kenyan capital Nairobi on 12 September 2011.

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2011 Ukraine mine accidents

The 2011 Ukraine mine accidents were two incidents which occurred at two coal mines in Eastern Ukraine on 29 July 2011.

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2012 Afyonkarahisar arsenal explosion

The 2012 Afyonkarahisar arsenal explosion occurred at 21:15 local time on 5 September 2012 in Afyonkarahisar, Turkey.

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2012 Astrakhan gas explosion

The 2012 Astrakhan gas explosion occurred on February 27, 2012 at an apartment building in the city of Astrakhan, Astrakhan Oblast, Russia.

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2013 Pakistan gas bus explosion

2013 Pakistan gas bus explosion occurred on 25 May 2013 after a gas cylinder exploded in a school minivan heading towards Gujrat in Pakistan.

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2013 Prague explosion

On April 29, 2013 at around 10:00am CEST (8:00 UTC), an explosion occurred in a building in the centre of Prague, Czech Republic.

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2013 Qingdao oil pipeline explosion

The 2013 Qingdao oil pipeline explosion occurred on 22 November 2013, when an oil pipeline in Chinese city of Qingdao, Shandong Province, China leaked and caught fire and exploded.

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2013 Rosario gas explosion

A gas explosion caused by a large gas leak occurred in a residential area of Rosario, the third-largest city in Argentina, on August 6, 2013.

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2013 Serendra explosion

The 2013 Serendra explosion was an explosion that occurred in the Two Serendra condominium complex occurred in Taguig, Metro Manila, Philippines.

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2014 East Harlem gas explosion

On March 12, 2014, an explosion occurred at 9:31 a.m. in the East Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City, United States.

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2014 GAIL pipeline explosion

On 27 June 2014 a massive fire broke out following a blast in Gas Authority of India Limited (GAIL) 18" size underground gas Pipeline at Nagaram in East Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh, India.

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2014 Gorni Lom explosions

The 2014 Gorni Lom explosions were a series of explosions that began on the afternoon of October 1, 2014, at 16:59 pm local time at the former Midzhur Ammo Plant in the village of Gorni Lom, in Bulgaria's northwestern Vidin Province.

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2014 Kaohsiung gas explosions

On 31 July 2014, a series of gas explosions occurred in the Cianjhen and Lingya districts of Kaohsiung, Taiwan, following reports of gas leaks earlier that night.

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2014 Kunshan explosion

The 2014 Kunshan explosion was a dust explosion that occurred at Zhongrong Metal Production Company, an automotive parts factory located in Kunshan, Jiangsu, China, on 2 August 2014.

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2014 Selantik coal mine explosion

The 2014 Selantik coal mine explosion took place on 22 November 2014 in Selantik, Pantu at Sri Aman Division, Sarawak, Malaysia.

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2015 Accra explosion

On June 3, 2015, an explosion and a fire occurred at a petrol station in Ghana's capital city Accra, killing over 250 people.

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2015 East Village gas explosion

A gas explosion occurred in the afternoon of March 26, 2015 in a building located at 121 Second Avenue in the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, United States.

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2015 New Taipei water park fire

On 27 June 2015, a dust fire occurred at Formosa Fun Coast, a water park in Bali, New Taipei City, Taiwan.

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2015 Tianjin explosions

On 12 August 2015, a series of explosions at the Port of Tianjin in Tianjin, Northern China, killed 173 people, according to official reports, and injured hundreds of others.

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2015 Zasyadko mine disaster

On 4 March 2015, at around 05:20 local time, there was a mining accident at the Zasyadko coal mine in rebel-held Eastern Ukraine.

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2016 Dangyang explosion

The 2016 Dangyang explosion was an explosion that occurred at the coal-fired power plant of Madian Gangue Power Generation Company located in Dangyang, Hubei, China on 11 August 2016 at 15:20 local time (07:20 UTC).

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2016 Mississauga explosion

On June 28, 2016, a residential house exploded in the Hickory neighbourhood in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.

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2016 Naivasha traffic fireball

The Naivasha traffic fireball occurred on 11 December 2016 when a small truck (allegedly a Canter) carrying explosive chemicals lost control due to an unmarked road bump and exploded on a main highway near Naivasha, Kenya.

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2016 San Pablito Market fireworks explosion

On 20 December 2016, a fireworks accident occurred at the San Pablito Market in the city of Tultepec, north of Valley of Mexico.

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2017 Arkema plant explosion

The 2017 Arkema plant explosion was an industrial disaster that took place during Hurricane Harvey in Crosby, Texas.

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2017 Atomic Junction gas explosion

On 7 October 2017, an offloading petrol tanker located at the state-owned Ghana Oil Company (GOIL) caught fire resulting in a large-scale explosion at the site of a liquefied natural gas station located at Atomic Junction in Madina, Accra, Ghana.

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2017 Kalynivka ammunition depot explosion

The ammunition depot at Kalynivka, near Vinnytsia, Ukraine, underwent a series of multi-kiloton explosions that started on the evening of September 26, 2017 and continued burning until September 30.

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2017 Lahore explosion

An explosion took place at around 10am on 23 February 2017 in a commercial market in Y-block of Defence, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan, killing 10 people.

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2018 Borgo Panigale explosion

On 6 August 2018, the collision of a liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) road tanker with an articulated lorry carrying flammable solvents and a car transporter resulted in a huge explosion on the A14 motorway within Borgo Panigale, a neighbourhood of Bologna, Italy. It was a case of boiling-liquid expanding-vapour explosion (BLEVE), where nearly all the road tanker cargo combusted in a matter of seconds upon release, generating a tremendous amount of thermal radiation.

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2018 Leicester explosion

The 2018 Leicester explosion occurred shortly after 19:00 GMT on 25 February 2018, on the A47 Hinckley Road in Leicester.

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2018 Magnitogorsk building collapse

On 31 December 2018, at approximately 6:02 a.m. local time, an apartment block in Magnitogorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia, partially collapsed.

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2019 Durham gas explosion

On April 10, 2019, a gas explosion occurred near downtown Durham, North Carolina at the 115 block of North Duke Street in the Brightleaf District.

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2019 Paris explosion

On 12 January 2019, an explosion occurred 6 Rue de Trévise in 9th arrondissement of Paris, France.

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2019 Xiangshui chemical plant explosion

On 21 March 2019, a major explosion occurred at a chemical plant in Chenjiagang Chemical Industry Park, Chenjiagang, Xiangshui County, Yancheng, Jiangsu, China.

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2020 Ahmedabad chemical factory blast

On 4 November 2020, a blast at a chemical factory in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India caused deaths of 12 people and injuries to nine others.

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2020 Beirut explosion

On 4 August 2020, a large amount of ammonium nitrate stored at the Port of Beirut in the capital city of Lebanon exploded, causing at least 218 deaths, 7,000 injuries, and US$15 billion in property damage, as well as leaving an estimated 300,000 people homeless.

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2020 Dahej chemical plant explosion

On 3 June 2020, the explosion occurred at the Yashashvi Rasayan Pvt.

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2020 Houston explosion

On January 24, 2020, a building at Watson Grinding and Manufacturing in northwest Houston, Texas, United States, exploded at 4:24 a.m. Debris was scattered as far as, and approximately 200 nearby houses and businesses were damaged.

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2020 Icheon fire

A major fire occurred on 29 April 2020 at a construction site in Icheon, South Korea, killing 39 people and injuring another 10.

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2020 Iran explosions

The 2020 Iran explosions were a series of eleven explosions in Iran, including at an advanced centrifuge assembly facility, alleged missile sites, petrochemical centers, power plants, a nuclear enrichment facility and a medical clinic.

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2020 Narayanganj explosion

On 4 September 2020, an explosion in Baitus Salat Jame mosque in Narayanganj District, Bangladesh killed at least 31 people while dozens more were injured.

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2020 Villa El Salvador explosion

On January 23, 2020, a gas leak from a truck transporting liquefied petroleum gas caused an explosion in Villa El Salvador, Lima metropolitan area, Peru.

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2020 Volgograd explosion

On the afternoon of August 10, 2020, a large explosion occurred at a gas station in Volgograd, Russia.

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2021 Baghdad hospital fire

On the night of 24 to 25 April 2021, a fire at the Ibn al-Khatib hospital in Baghdad, Iraq, left at least 82 people dead and 110 others injured.

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2021 Bata explosions

During the afternoon of 7 March 2021, a series of four explosions occurred at a military barracks in the neighborhood of Nkoantoma, a district of Bata, Equatorial Guinea.

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2021 Leverkusen explosion

An explosion occurred at Chempark, an industrial park for chemical factories in Leverkusen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, on 27 July 2021, at 09:35 local time, sending a pall of smoke over the city.

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2021 Madrid explosion

On 20 January 2021, an explosion occurred in a building on Calle de Toledo in Madrid, Spain, causing it to partially collapse.

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2021 Moghbazar explosion

The Moghbazar explosion took place on 27 June 2021 at the wireless gate of Moghbazar in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh.

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2021 Ravanusa explosion

On 11 December 2021, an explosion caused the collapse of four buildings in Ravanusa, Italy, killing nine people.

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2021 Rockton fire

On June 14, 2021, a maintenance accident at the Chemtool Incorporated manufacturing plant in Rockton, Illinois, triggered a chemical fire that lasted four days and injured two emergency workers.

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2021 Shivamogga explosion

At around 10:30 PM local time on 21 January 2021, a truck carrying sticks of blasting gelatin exploded at a boulder-crushing facility in Abbalagere in Shivamogga district, Karnataka, India.

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2021 Shiyan pipeline explosion

2021 Shiyan pipeline explosion, officially June 13 Yanhu Community Pedlar's Market Severe Gas Explosion Accident in Zhangwan District, Shiyan, Hubei was a gas explosion took place at about 6:30 a.m. local time in Yanhu Community, Checheng Road Subdistrict, Zhangwan District, Shiyan, Hubei on 13 June 2021 in a market, which then collapsed.

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2022 Bogoso explosion

On 20 January 2022, a large explosion occurred along the Tarkwa-Bogoso-Ayamfuri road in Western Region, Ghana, after a truck transporting mining explosives collided with a motorcycle.

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2022 Imo-Rivers explosion

On 22 April 2022, an explosion in southern Nigeria killed 110 people.

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2022 Sitakunda fire

On the night of, a fire and subsequent explosions at a container depot in Sitakunda Upazila, Chittagong District, Bangladesh killed at least 47 people and injured around 450 others.

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2022 St Helier explosion

On 10 December 2022, an explosion destroyed a block of flats in St Helier, Jersey in the Channel Islands.

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2022 Yerevan explosion

On 14 August 2022, at 13:23 local time, a large explosion took place in the Surmalu shopping centre in the Armenian capital of Yerevan.

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2023 Azerbaijani offensive in Nagorno-Karabakh

Between 19 and 20 September 2023, Azerbaijan launched a large-scale military offensive against the self-declared breakaway state of Artsakh, a move seen as a violation of the ceasefire agreement signed in the aftermath of the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War in 2020.

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2023 Bedford explosion

The 2023 Bedford explosion took place on February 20, 2023 in Bedford, Ohio, US.

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2023 Gulistan explosion

On 7 March 2023, an explosion happened in a market in Dhaka, Bangladesh killing at least 17 people while more than 140 were injured.

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2023 Kabal explosions

On 24 April 2023, an explosion in the Counter-Terrorism Department building in Kabal, Swat Valley, Pakistan, killed at least 17 people and wounded more than 50 others.

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2023 Pennsylvania chocolate factory explosion

On March 24, 2023, an explosion occurred at a chocolate factory operated by the R.M. Palmer Company in West Reading, Pennsylvania.

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2023 Texas dairy farm explosion

An explosion occurred on April 10, 2023, at the South Fork Dairy Farm about south of Dimmitt, Texas, United States.

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2023 Yinchuan gas explosion

On 21 June 2023, 31 people died and seven others were injured at the Fuyang Barbecue Restaurant (s) in Xingqing District, Yinchuan, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, China, after a gas explosion occurred on the eve of the Dragon Boat Festival.

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See also

Explosions

• Blowback (steam engine)
• Boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion
• Bombing
• Condensation cloud
• Coulomb explosion
• Dust explosions
• Dynamic design analysis method
• Entropic explosion
• Exploding animals
• Exploding tree
• Exploding trousers
• Explosion
• Explosion protection
• Explosion welding
• Explosive eruptions
• Frank-Kamenetskii theory
• Gas explosions
• High-voltage transformer fire barriers
• Intracolonic explosion
• Kesteven 75
• Largest artificial non-nuclear explosions
• List of explosions
• Majda's model
• Mushroom cloud
• Peaceful nuclear explosions
• Rapid phase transition
• Steam explosion
• Supernovae
• Sympathetic detonation
• Underwater explosion

Lists of explosions

• List of 2007 suicide bombings in Iraq
• List of boiler explosions
• List of boiling liquid expanding vapor explosions
• List of bombing campaigns of the Vietnam War
• List of bombings during the Iraq War
• List of bombings during the Iraqi insurgency (2011–2013)
• List of bombings during the Islamic State insurgency in Iraq (2017–present)
• List of bombings during the Troubles
• List of bombings during the War in Iraq (2013–2017)
• List of bombings in Sri Lanka
• List of explosions

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_explosions

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