This puts things in more perfective for folks who remember that one, thanks for sharing.
Insane :(
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Insane :(
That's what I'm talking about don't think fireworks are capable of such blast.
Mostly that there's a non-standard fuel, potentially the fireworks before the blast erupted
Or actually, thousands of them.
That's legitimately the scariest thing I've read in a long time. Would easily be the biggest non war time explosion outside of nuclear testing that I can think of.
Edit: Could be Jordan misreading something. I'd hope so because that's unimaginable.
Oh yes they are
Vuurwerkramp enschede Beelden Explosie
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Destroyed In Seconds - Fireworks Explosion
Employee in Fireworks factory drops some fireworks, and ignites the whole factory, causing a massive explosion.
www.youtube.com
Just not this one in particular but there are several massive similar accidental explosions in history around the world you can look up from Gas explosions to fireworks factories etc
People seem to forget what things are capable of producing explosions outside of things deliberately made to make them
This would make sense given the scale of the explosion and why Israel quickly denied responsibility. Would a fertilizer be capable of creating a blast of this magnitude?
When there is this sort of explosion at a port, it is often fertilizers. See Tianjin a few years ago.
I really hope the person in that footage survived. That is unlike anything I've ever seen.
Because there were fireworks involved in the fire/explosion as clearly seen in the vids posted above yours.
A nearby large stock of confiscated chemical that hadn't been disposed of. Basically sounds like they ended up with a tragic worst case scenario accident because of certain substances being stored in unsafe proximity.
Edited because I see different chemicals listed. I'm poor in my chemistry knowlege, so I don't know which one would be correct.
Fire lead to Fireworks explosion then it reached the Ammonium Nitrate barrels, over 50 tons, that caused the big explosion. That's the current official line.
The Nitrate explosion was the secondary and more powerful one, the primary is the fireworks.
Primary explosion then larger secondary.
Dear God. I didn't know it was the same type of chemical present in the Tianjin explosion.
Damage report from home.
One glass window smashed, one glass door smashed, TV has small bits of glass in it but still working, curtains ruined, and my mom has a lacerated finger.
My Uncle also lost several windows, a TV and had to have stitches from window shrapnel.
There were reports that it was heard from Cyprus.
One glass window smashed, one glass door smashed, TV has small bits of glass in it but still working, curtains ruined, and my mom has a lacerated finger.
My Uncle also lost several windows, a TV and had to have stitches from window shrapnel.
There were reports that it was heard from Cyprus.
Thanks for the updates. Glad you are safe and I hope you get through this.
It is really heartbreaking to see all this destruction. Hopefully Beirut will be rebuilt and become even more beautiful than before.
learning that Lebanon is majorly depended on imports for their goods. That includes the medical supplies that's needed treat people. Then the food. Jesus.
Yes enough fertilizer with the right spark can cause a giant explosion. That is why ammonium nitrate is quite dangerous.
Even through a video I was not prepared for that concussion blast.....Jesus christ
Fertiliser makes excellent bombs, just read up on the IRA as they used it a lot here in the UK.
Yep. I didn't know it was the same. The chemical I knew, but I'd forgotten it was fertilizer. Insane.
We had a fireworks manufacturer explosion in a neighboring city 30 km from my old hometown.
We could still hear the explosion and parts of that city were destroyed quite a bit so I can see this being something like that.
This one looks a bit different, might have been more raw materials.
We could still hear the explosion and parts of that city were destroyed quite a bit so I can see this being something like that.
This one looks a bit different, might have been more raw materials.
Tianjin explosion video captures fear of eyewitnesses - BBC News
Footage of two massive explosions in the Chinese city of Tianjin, taken by a stunned eyewitness, captured the fear and terror of those who saw what happened....
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Shockingly similar to that event
Sounds like it may have started as a fire that ignited fireworks and then later ignited several tons of confiscated sodium nitrate, which caused the bigger explosion.
