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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.[17] 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.

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Three billion-dollar weather disasters for July 2016: Typhoon Nepartak, China floods, Netherlands severe weather
According to the July 2016 Catastrophe Report from insurance broker Aon Benfield, two billion-dollar weather-related disaster hit the planet in July: $1.5 billion in damage from Typhoon Nepartak's impact on the Philippines, Taiwan, and China; and flooding in northeast China on July 16 - 24 that cost $5 billion. An additional $6 billion in flood damage occurred along the Yangtze River basin, bringing the total flood damage in that region from monsoon rains that began in May to a staggering $28 billion dollars--the third most expensive non-U.S. weather related disaster in recorded history. Additionally, a severe weather outbreak in the Netherlands during June accumulated enough damage claims to be rated a billion-dollar disaster by the end of July. Between January - July 2016, there were 21 billion-dollar weather disasters--one fewer than occurred during January - July 2013, the year that ended up with the most billion-dollar weather disasters on record: 41. Here is the tally of billion-dollar weather disasters for January - July 2016:

1) Flooding, Yangtze Basin, China, 5/1 - 8/1, $28.0 billion, 475 killed
2) Flooding, Germany, France, Austria, Poland, 5/26 - 6/6, $5.5 billion, 17 killed
3) Drought, India, 1/1 - 6/30, $5.0 billion, 0 killed
4) Flooding, Northeast China 7/16 - 7/24, $5.0 billion, 289 killed
5) Wildfire, Fort McMurray, Canada, 5/2- 6/1, $5.0 billion, 0 killed
6) Severe Weather, Plains-Southeast U.S., 4/10 - 4/13, $3.75 billion, 1 killed
7) Flooding, China, 6/18 - 6/23, $2.3 billion, 68 killed
8) Severe Weather, Rockies-Plains-Southeast-Midwest U.S., 3/22 - 3/25, $2.2 billion, 0 killed
9) Winter Weather, East Asia, 1/20 - 1/26, $2.0 billion, 116 killed
10) Tropical Cyclone Roanu, Sri Lanka, India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, China, 5/14 - 5/21, $1.7 billion, 135 killed
11) Severe Weather, Plains-Midwest U.S., 4/29 - 5/3, $1.6 billion, 6 killed
12) Drought, Zimbabwe, 1/1 - 3/1, $1.6 billion, 0 killed
3) Typhoon Nepartak, Philippines, Taiwan, China, 7/8 - 7/9, $1.5 billion, 111 killed
13) Severe Weather, Plains-Southeast U.S., 3/17 - 3/18, $1.3 billion, 0 killed
14) Flooding, Argentina and Uruguay, 4/4 - 4/10, $1.3 billion, 0 killed
15) Severe Weather, Plains-Midwest-Southeast-Northeast U.S., 3/4 - 3/12, $1.25 billion, 6 killed
16) Severe Weather, Plains-Midwest-Southeast-Northeast U.S., 2/22 - 2/25, $1.2 billion, 10 killed
17) Severe Weather, Plains-Midwest U.S., 5/21 - 5/28, $1.1 billion, 1 killed
18) Severe Weather, Netherlands, 6/23 - 6/24, $1.1 billion, 0 killed
19) Flooding, Plains-Rockies U.S., 4/15 - 4/19, $1.0 billion, 9 killed
20) Tropical Cyclone Winston, Fiji, 2/16 - 2/22, $1.0 billion, 44 killed
21) Winter Weather, Eastern U.S., 1/21 - 1/24, $1.0 billion, 58 killed

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