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Tianjin, China, Blast Affects Port Handling Coal, Metal Ore, Oil via Bloomberg
"The port, located about 160 kilometers southeast of Beijing in Tianjin municipality, has a container terminal and is near China National Offshore Oil Corp.’s Tianjin FLNG, China’s first floating liquefied natural-gas terminal. The LNG plant has a capacity of 1.059 trillion cubic feet a year, according to Bloomberg data."..."PetroChina Co.’s 359,000 barrel-a-day Dagang refinery, the country’s fifth largest, is in the southern part of Tianjin municipality, according to Bloomberg data. Calls to the company weren’t immediately returned"
AFP/Yahoo: 17 dead, 400 hurt as huge blasts hits China's Tianjin
"An AFP reporter at the scene saw shattered glass up to three kilometres (two miles) from the blast site, after a shipment of explosives detonated in an industrial zone raining debris on the city. Plumes of smoke still billowed over buildings six hours after the explosion, which occurred around 11:30 pm (1530 GMT) local time.
"The fireball was huge, maybe as much as 100 metres tall," said 27-year-old Huang Shiting, whose house is close to the port area of the city where the explosion took place." . . ."Much of the area surrounding the explosion is made up of construction sites for residential and office buildings. Worker dormitories, built of flimsy sheets of thin metal, were torn apart by the blast."
UPI adds:

"China's Xinhua news agency reported the explosion was caused by flammables and explosives at a container terminal. The agency said the blast set off a number of other explosions at buildings nearby.
The explosion was centered at a warehouse for a logistics company called Tianjin Dongjiang Port Rui Hai International Logistics, CNN reported.
Chinese state broadcaster CCTV said nearby tower blocks were without power, the BBC reported.
The emerging business district includes a new airport completed in 2012 and is home to 219 Fortune 500 companies, according to China Daily."

There will no doubt be a number totally vaporized, others shredded. Does anyone have the figure on how many people in NY in 911 were never identified, and how many were only identified by DNA testing. People dead in apartments might be identifiable with DNA even if not visually intact. Much harder within the warehouses themselves although they will have lists of people scheduled to work that night. Right now the figure is 17, certainly several hundred is likely.