Beirut explosion......

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_City_disaster

that shockwave was crazy

 

In the video clip posted in the first post, what do you suppose were all the little explosions about 1:40 in before the big boom?....ah, may have been fireworks...

Edit:...found this...

"government officials initially identified a fireworks depot at the site of the largest explosion in Lebanon's history"

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopoliti...g-mystery-blast-shockwave-filmed-over-lebanon

 

Saw a couple different videos showing the shock wave till it hit the people and they were filming the floor. Wow.

 

Ouch.

Happens a lot with that chemical...see here

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_City_disaster

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammonium_nitrate_disasters

 

From what I read it had been confiscated from a ship and was being stored at one of the buildings. The white cloud was water vapor from the shock wave. Saw clips from multiple angles, just crazy.

 

my girl said it broke window's in her family's town 20 miles away to the east. at first report I would have said bomb from Israeli fighter jet given that Hezbollah's been fucking with them a little more lately, but legit looks like its an accident and all accounts now and people from Beirut we know are all saying the same thing, which is nuts. looking like one of those 500 ton bombs or whatever that huge non-nuclear shit is that we use sometimes.

 

MOAB fuel air. Bet this was bigger.

 

There was a video of a plant fire where they manufactured the solid booster rockets for the space shuttle. Same spectacular effect.

That left a mark...


EDIT: I'm no explosion expert by any means but wouldn't such power require some kind of containment?

Meaning that it was a bomb (s) that exploded, not bulks of ammonium nitrate (?)....

 

Fox says current body count is 60....I'm sure it's going to go up as they go through the rubble.

 

couple more unique angles that aren't floating around as much as some of the other vids... this one you can actually see a bunch of the fireworks. nuts...

https://streamable.com/xmmoa7

the buildings in this one, holy fuck...

https://twitter.com/FirasElEchi10/status/1290678032978579456

and shock wave on the water. i guess that's what 786mph looks like. life comes at you fast....

https://twitter.com/RanaHarbi/status/1290670026622668807

 

Probably stocking up to kill more Marines..like they they did in 83.

 

Fuck You 2020.

 

It may have been ignited by fireworks but that certainly wasn’t just fireworks to blow out windows 10km away plus. Unreal and a devastating tragedy.

 

Holy shit!

 

Often with particulates the primary explosion will trigger a much larger secondary explosion when that particulate becomes airborne. If you're over about 50 years old, the rash of grain silo explosions in the United States is a perfect example.. Don't know if that's what happened in Beirut, but it's my guess.

 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Fertilizer_Company_explosion

Don’t forget this one. Pretty rural so luckily not many killed, unfortunately most were fire fighters. A friend grew up there and parents are still there. His mom was looking out the window at the fire, dad realized what was going on and pulled her away from the window less than a minute before it went boom. Their house took enough damage that it had to be leveled, probably would’ve been bad news if she had stayed in front of the window.

 

I read that as well. It was stored in an adjoining building to the fireworks factory and when that went up it spread to the ammonium nitrate building and boom.

It's wild that so many cameras caught that blast because they were filming the initial fire.

That death count is likely to be gruesome. Saw a video on Twitter with bodies scattered everywhere. Really gross.

 

2750 tons of ammonium nitrate is what the PM of Lebanon is saying right now.

To give that some context, OKC bombing was almost 2 1/2 tons of ammonium nitrate

 

That beyotch went boom. Am Nitrate isnt super powerful compared to a more modern explosive...but a few thousand ton will do whatever job you want.

It also isnt easy to set off. When we played with it in the Army we used TNT/C4/Etc to set it off. It take a pretty good jot to send it. Even many fires where it burns it wont explode...unless its contained.

too bad about all those people....