Explosion in Beirut

[Neath_Jack]

There's been a number of firework factory explosions in China over the years and they absolutely can be as devastating as you see in these videos

Fireworks should be illegal outside of professional displays and regulated far more stringently.

They are literally bombs.

They shouldn't even exist, there is no place for them in the modern world.

 

[Andy1300]

It’s awful, my wife has a friend who lives out there, she sent her a video, scary how close she was to the explosion.

She has said the trouble has been getting worse over the last few months.

Not sure what to believe about the source of the explosion!

 

[Belfy]

https://twitter.com/jasmineelgamal/status/1290673276486856705?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw


Fireworks? Yea, OK!

Depends how they stored them Phil, how much explosive and where, certain countries aren't too clever with health and safety, my guess the final explosion could have been assisted by a gas main being cracked in the heat

 

[Rob]

Fireworks? Yea, OK!

There's been a number of firework factory explosions in China over the years and they absolutely can be as devastating as you see in these videos

Not that big and devastating. Some raw chemicals no doubt.

Whatever caused it, why keep it that close to a huge population? Mental.

 

[Darran]

https://twitter.com/conflictsw/status/1290734610385690624?s=21

 

[Best_loser]

At first I thought it must have been Hezbollah

Hard to believe it was just some accident but that's what's being claimed

 

[Dr. Winston]

Nearly three thousand tons of poorly stored ammonium nitrate apparently. Massive criminal negligence.

For comparison the Oklahoma City bomb was two tons of the same. The Hiroshima nuke was the equivalent of approx 12-15,000 tons of TNT.

 

[controversial_jack]

Trump, making a fool of himself yet again by syting it was a bomb.

 

[J_B]

Ammonium nitrate (explosive grade) is a low level, slow burning explosive when mixed with fuel oil in the right proportions. It's difficult to get to go off in practice and needs priming regularly with high explosive in quarrying and open cast mining. High volumes of gas produced which causes massive air blast which in turn damages buildings.

Agricultural grade is even more difficult to get to explode but it can be done when used in conjunction with gelignite which the IRA did back in the day.

Storage conditions are almost certainly the issue here together with how long it had been there.

 

[TheLoneRanger]

The explosion generated seismic waves equivalent of a magnitude 3.3 earthquake!!


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[BanosSwan]

The explosion generated seismic waves equivalent of a magnitude 3.3 earthquake!!


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Amazing that wall is still standing.