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It was a muniitions explosion at the Port Chicago Naval Magazine in Port Chicago, California on 17 July 1944 which killed 320 civilian and and Navy laborers. The explosion registered 3.4 on the Richter scale at the University of California,wounded another 390 and in 1011 dollars, the loss was equal to $124 million.
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∙ 9y agoPort Chicago disaster happened on 1944-07-17.
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