Natural Disasters

• Fire of a floating roof tank of crude oil caused due to a large earthquake and full face fire of another floating roof tank two days later (2003)
• Eruption of Mount Usu (2000)
• The debris flow of the Kanbarasawa (1996)
• The Hanshin Awaji Great Earthquake (Hyogo Prefecture Southward Earthquake) (1995)
• Okushiri Tsunami Generated by Southwest-off Hokkaido Earthquake (1993)
• Partial leakage of hydrochloric acid gas from an absorber due to an earthquake (1987)
• Sinking of a floating roof due to inundating of pontoons and retained rain-water on the roof at a floating roof naphtha tank (1987)
• Fire caused due to a thunderbolt that struck piping at a vinyl chloride monomer manufacturing plant (1987)
• Fire and explosion at a jet fuel tank caused due to a thunderbolt from design error of an instrument device (1987)
• Leakage of gas oil from a crack in the corroded part of a tank side wall due to an earthquake (1983)
• Japan Sea Earthquake (1983)
• Fire of an outdoor storage tank caused due to sloshing from an earthquake (1983)
• Leakage of fuel oil from a crack in the thin part of the side wall of a oil tank due to an earthquake (1980)
• Outflow of all fuel oil from a tank caused due to breakage of a base plate of an outdoor oil tank from an earthquake (1978)
• Fire of Petroleum Tank, etc. by Niigata Earthquake (1964)
• Seikan Railroad Ferryboat Accident (1954)
• The Great Meiji Sanriku Tsunami (1896)