Posted on 08/20/2015 12:07:09 PM PDT by wtd
More than a week after the Tianjin warehouse explosion that killed at least 114 people, large numbers of dead fish have washed ashore in the northern Chinese city, causing fresh public alarm and inciting fears of greater environmental damage linked to the chemical blast.
Photos of thousands of small dead fish on the shore of the Haihe River circulated widely on social media soon after they were published by Chinese state media late Thursday afternoon. One posting was forwarded more than 6,000 times and received 4,300 comments less than three hours after it was published.
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Average water depth of the Bohai Sea is 20 meters so any runoff is not going to put chemical settling very deep.
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