Just watched some of the footage - incredible explosion and there will be many more than 25 dead.
one video showed at least 7 or 8 dead and that looked to be a fair distance away. The bodies were absolutely mangled. Can’t see that staying on Twitter for long
Extraordinary......I’ve never seen anything like it.......aside from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which were of course nuclear and happened in a much different set of circumstances. I am going to has at a guess and say this is the biggest explosion ever.......other than nuclear testing or those dropped on Japan.
Extraordinary......I’ve never seen anything like it.......aside from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which were of course nuclear and happened in a much different set of circumstances. I am going to has at a guess and say this is the biggest explosion ever.......other than nuclear testing or those dropped on Japan.
Kracatoa might disagree with you!
That footage is going to join a select group of images in history, up there with the Twin Towers.
Extraordinary......I’ve never seen anything like it.......aside from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which were of course nuclear and happened in a much different set of circumstances. I am going to has at a guess and say this is the biggest explosion ever.......other than nuclear testing or those dropped on Japan.
Extraordinary......I’ve never seen anything like it.......aside from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which were of course nuclear and happened in a much different set of circumstances. I am going to has at a guess and say this is the biggest explosion ever.......other than nuclear testing or those dropped on Japan.
Kracatoa might disagree with you!
That footage is going to join a select group of images in history, up there with the Twin Towers.
Pretty sure a few fireworks wouldn't cause most of the surrounding area to be decimated and buildings to collapse.
The raw materials to make them might.
It looked like a very fast explosion, the visible shockwave is caused by a supersonic expansion of gas. Fireworks burn fairly slowly compared with military explosives.
Extraordinary......I’ve never seen anything like it.......aside from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which were of course nuclear and happened in a much different set of circumstances. I am going to has at a guess and say this is the biggest explosion ever.......other than nuclear testing or those dropped on Japan.
RIP to the dozens of people who have lost their lives in this incident. It appears that the blast was the result of ammonium nitrate/sodium nitrate exploding. 2,750 tons of the chemical had been offloaded in the port a few months ago and the ship was still in port awaiting an auction of the chemicals.
Why that quantity of highly explosive chemicals would be stored in a populous city and in a warehouse complex also used to store fireworks, I have no idea.
RIP to the dozens of people who have lost their lives in this incident. It appears that the blast was the result of ammonium nitrate/sodium nitrate exploding. 2,750 tons of the chemical had been offloaded in the port a few months ago and the ship was still in port awaiting an auction of the chemicals.
Why that quantity of highly explosive chemicals would be stored in a populous city and in a warehouse complex also used to store fireworks, I have no idea.
Literally a disaster waiting to happen.
That sounds about right. Reminds me of the big fertilizer factory explosion in Texas a few years back. That was a massive blast and they only had about 30 tons of the stuff in storage
Mother owns a boat and next to the marina is a warehouse housing tanker sized boatloads of Ammonium nitrate. She has balloted the local MP and council about the danger of having such a material so close to residential homes. There are regulations but money talks and rules walk. A side issues is the stuff blows across the town and locals say is causes breathing problems and the ash corrodes paintwork where it settles. This could happen in the UK (if Ammonium nitrate is found to be the cause).
BBC news is reporting an Ammonium nitrate store that has been there since 2014, is the expected fuel for the blast.
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You better ask Netanyahu why he released those tweets a few hours before the explosion though.
one video showed at least 7 or 8 dead and that looked to be a fair distance away. The bodies were absolutely mangled. Can’t see that staying on Twitter for long
RIP to those unlucky to be in the blast zone
I am going to has at a guess and say this is the biggest explosion ever.......other than nuclear testing or those dropped on Japan.
That footage is going to join a select group of images in history, up there with the Twin Towers.
It looked like a very fast explosion, the visible shockwave is caused by a supersonic expansion of gas. Fireworks burn fairly slowly compared with military explosives.
Why that quantity of highly explosive chemicals would be stored in a populous city and in a warehouse complex also used to store fireworks, I have no idea.
Literally a disaster waiting to happen.
That sounds about right. Reminds me of the big fertilizer factory explosion in Texas a few years back. That was a massive blast and they only had about 30 tons of the stuff in storage
None of you know a fucking thing about what happened yet. Why don't you all just shut up and wait for a bit eh?
BBC news is reporting an Ammonium nitrate store that has been there since 2014, is the expected fuel for the blast.