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The explosion severely polluted the Songhua River, with an estimated 100 tons of pollutants containing benzene and nitrobenzene entering into the river. An 80 km long toxic slick drifted down the Amur River, and the benzene level recorded was at one point 108 times above national safety levels. The slick passed first on the Songhua River through several counties and cities of Jilin province, including Songyuan; it then entered the province of Heilongjiang, with Harbin, capital of Heilongjiang province and one of China's largest cities, being one of the first places to be affected. After traversing the eastern half of Heilongjiang including the city of Jiamusi, the slick converged into the Amur River at the mouth of the Songhua on the border between China and Russia. It passed by the Jewish Autonomous Oblast in Russia, then entered the Russian region of Khabarovsk Krai in the Russian Far East, passing through the cities of Khabarovsk and Komsomolsk-on-Amur before exiting into the Strait of Tartary, itself a bridge between the Sea of Okhotsk and the Sea of Japan portions of the Pacific Ocean.
The people of Jilin City, Jilin Province, China were evacuated after the explosion and resulting fire the residents of Jilin City , not because they were warned to by the local government, but because they discovered what the actual situation of the chemical explosion was. Soon after the explosion occurred a large amount of yellow and dark smoke filled the sky around the city, the smoke made it extremely difficult for the residents to breathe. But because the police blocked off city streets for emergency vehicles, cars, taxies, and buses were unable to make there way through the city and greatly reduced the evacuation. Initially more then 30,000 residents of the city evacuated the city along with 12,000 university students, including 5,000 students from the Jilin Petrochemical College. But because residents were unable to use vehicles, large amount of the old and sick were left behind. Eventually 10,000 more residents had to be evacuated by the Chinese Government.
The cause of the blast was initially determined two days after the blast. The accident site is a nitration unit for aniline equipment, T-102 tower jammed up and was not handled properly, which caused the blast.
Jilin City, Jilin Province, China is among one of the oldest cities in Northeast China. Before the blast Jilin city was just a normal city in China, having atractions like the Songhua Lake, Ula Ancient City, Changchun Film Theme Park, and Jingyuetan National Forest Park to name a few.
The Jilin chemical plant explosions were a series of explosions which occurred on November 13, 2005, in the No.101 Petrochemical Plant in Jilin City, Jilin Province, China, over the period of an hour. The explosions killed six, injured dozens, and caused the evacuation of tens of thousands of residents.
Since the disaster was caused by jamming of Tower T-102 and not being handled properly, the blast could have been easily prevented if the equipment had been handled properly and not un-cautiosly.