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Rank	Topic	Wikipedia views
1	Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki	16,407
2	Chernobyl disaster	14,175
3	Tunguska event	4,097
4	Trinity (nuclear test)	3,524
5	1993 World Trade Center bombing	2,046
6	Bath School disaster	1,974
7	Halifax Explosion	1,654
8	Los Angeles Times bombing	1,391
9	Lake Nyos	862
10	MOVE	814
11	Texas City Disaster	629
12	Piper Alpha	560
13	Chernobyl after the disaster	536
14	1967 USS Forrestal fire	510
15	Port Chicago disaster	446
16	Wall Street bombing	396
17	Battle of Messines	384
18	Black Tom explosion	371
19	PEPCON disaster	350
20	USS Iowa turret explosion	343
21	Flixborough disaster	192
22	West Loch Disaster	191
23	Ronan Point	170
24	Phillips Disaster of 1989	159
25	1992 explosions in Guadalajara	156
26	Enschede fireworks disaster	153
27	New London School explosion	145
28	Ufa train disaster	140
29	RAF Fauld explosion	140
30	Hawthorn Ridge Redoubt	139
31	Minor Scale	138
32	Greenwich Village townhouse explosion	137
33	Westray Mine	133
34	1979 Mississauga train derailment	126
35	La Coubre explosion	122
36	San Bernardino train disaster	118
37	Operation Sailor Hat	116
38	Individual involvement in the Chernobyl disaster	115
39	Betelgeuse incident	113
40	Project Gnome	108
41	Russell Street Bombing	93
42	Cleveland East Ohio Gas explosion	88
43	Humberto Vidal Explosion	85
44	Cando event	84
45	SS Mont-Blanc	81
46	Oppau explosion	78
47	Lake Monoun	77
48	Bombay Explosion (1944)	74
49	1998 Esso Longford gas explosion	66
50	Cokeville Elementary School hostage crisis	66
51	1924 Nixon Nitration Works disaster	66
52	Edison, New Jersey natural gas explosion	65
53	Silvertown explosion	59
54	Harvey's Resort Hotel bombing	52
55	Lochnagar mine	51
56	Smederevo Fortress	45
57	Ripple Rock	43
58	Waverly, Tennessee tank car explosion	38
59	Hangang Bridge bombing	37
60	Grover Shoe Factory disaster	35
61	XXI Bomber Command	35
62	T. A. Gillespie Company Shell Loading Plant explosion	34
63	Phillips explosion of 2000	34
64	1998 St. Cloud explosion	33
65	Faversham explosives industry	32
66	Spyros disaster	31
67	Phillips explosion of 1999	30
68	Vergarola explosion	27
69	Sylvania Electric Products explosion	25
70	Hillcrest mine disaster	24
71	1970 Propane vapor cloud explosion in Port Hudson	24
72	Arzamas train disaster	24
73	Explosion of the RFA Bedenham	23
74	North Division Street explosion	22
75	1998 Jesse pipeline explosion	22
76	National Shell Filling Factory, Chilwell	21
77	Louisville sewer explosions	21
78	Yaoundé train explosion	17
79	1929 Ottawa sewer explosion	16
80	1927 Pittsburgh gas explosion	15
81	Richmond, Indiana explosion	14
82	Hub Oil explosion	12
83	1943 Filipstad explosion	12
84	East Boston gas surge	11
85	Black Friday (1951)	10
86	1917 Kazan Gunpowder Plant fire	less than 5 views
87	Río Tercero explosion	less than 5 views

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