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A series of explosions that killed over one hundred people and injured hundreds of others occurred at a container storage station at the Port of Tianjin on Wednesday, 12 August 2015. The first two explosions occurred within 30 seconds of each other at the facility, which is located in the Binhai New Area of Tianjin, China.〔〔 Fires caused by the initial explosions continued to burn uncontrolled throughout the weekend, repeatedly causing secondary explosions, with eight additional explosions occurring on Saturday, 15 August. The cause of the explosions was not immediately known,〔 but Chinese state media reported that at least the initial blast was from unknown hazardous materials in shipping containers at a plant warehouse owned by Ruihai Logistics,〔 a firm specialized in handling hazardous materials.〔 Poor coverage of the event and the emergency response to it received criticism.〔〔〔 The Chinese government also censored the internet and social media using the words "Tianjin" and "explosion",〔 and announced it had taken down multiple websites for publishing "false" information.〔 As of 12 September 2015, the official casualty report was 173 deaths,〔 8 missing, and 797 non-fatal injuries.〔 ==Background== Tianjin Dongjiang Port Ruihai International Logistics (), or Ruihai Logistics (), is a privately held logistics company established in 2011. It handles hazardous chemicals within the Port of Tianjin, such as compressed air, flammable and corrosive substances, oxidizing agents, and toxic chemicals. The company, which employs 70, is designated by the Tianjin Maritime Safety Administration () as an approved agent for handling these hazardous chemicals at the port,〔 and its operating license was renewed two months prior to the explosions.〔 Its site contains multiple warehouses for hazardous goods, a fire pump and a fire pond.〔 The warehouse building, owned by Ruihai Logistics, is recorded in a 2014 government document as being a hazardous chemical storage facility for calcium carbide, sodium nitrate, and potassium nitrate.〔 Safety regulations requiring that public buildings and facilities should be at least 1 kilometre away were not followed, and local inhabitants were unaware of the danger.〔〔 The authorities stated that poor record keeping, damage to the office facilities and "major discrepancies" with customs meant that they were unable to identify the substances stored.〔 State media revealed that Ruihai had only received its authorisation to handle dangerous chemicals less than two months earlier, meaning that it had been operating illegally from October 2014, when its temporary license had expired, to June 2015.〔〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「2015 Tianjin explosions」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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