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Explosion in Beirut (at the port?)
- Thread starter GreyGhost
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Yowza. Black smoke like that....a plane exploded? Guess we will know soon.
I don't know what started it, but a plane is not going to make a shockwave like that.
This video makes it look plausible that fireworks were involved. Having the powder bunker (or munitions storage) in the plant doesn't seem like a great plan. In Ontario, you are only allowed to keep a certain amount in a building. I worked in an old winchester factory before and there were a half dozen underground bunkers out the back where they would divide up the stores.
That would make sense for the ground bursts, it was the ones in the air I was referring too. Most ammunition I know of doesn't explode after travelling a few hundred feet.
As expected, it's bad.I love the wanker news headlines "Massive explosion rocks Beirut, no casualties reported"
No *&^*^ there is nothing reported yet. There will be a lot of people that are not coming home, they are not going to call in with that fact.
UPDATE: Lebanese Health Minister Hassan Hamad says more than 25 people dead, over 2,500 injured in the Beirut explosion.
This seems like a more plausible cause. As to why you store a large quantity of it in the center of the city?
www.680news.com
"Abbas Ibrahim, chief of Lebanese General Security, said it might have been caused by highly explosive material that was confiscated from a ship some time ago and stored at the port. Local television channel LBC said the material was sodium nitrate.
Witnesses reported seeing a strange orange-colored cloud over the site after the explosion. Orange clouds of toxic nitrogen dioxide gas often accompany an explosion involving nitrates."
Massive Beirut blast kills more than 70, injures thousands | CityNews Toronto
A massive explosion shook Lebanon's capital Beirut on Tuesday but there were no immediate reports of damages or casualties.
www.680news.com
"Abbas Ibrahim, chief of Lebanese General Security, said it might have been caused by highly explosive material that was confiscated from a ship some time ago and stored at the port. Local television channel LBC said the material was sodium nitrate.
Witnesses reported seeing a strange orange-colored cloud over the site after the explosion. Orange clouds of toxic nitrogen dioxide gas often accompany an explosion involving nitrates."
This seems like a more plausible cause. As to why you store a large quantity of it in the center of the city?
Massive Beirut blast kills more than 70, injures thousands | CityNews Toronto
A massive explosion shook Lebanon's capital Beirut on Tuesday but there were no immediate reports of damages or casualties.
"Abbas Ibrahim, chief of Lebanese General Security, said it might have been caused by highly explosive material that was confiscated from a ship some time ago and stored at the port. Local television channel LBC said the material was sodium nitrate.
Witnesses reported seeing a strange orange-colored cloud over the site after the explosion. Orange clouds of toxic nitrogen dioxide gas often accompany an explosion involving nitrates."
that makes more sense....that cloud is reddish brown....when nitrates explode red/brown NO2 is given off.
Just read a bunch of articles, seems it's ammonium nitrate that was loaded off a tanker and no one bothered to do anything about it. 2,750 Tonnes Of Ammonium Nitrate Exploded: Lebanon PM On Beirut Blasts
Clearly devastating, if we have any Lebanese members, hope your families/friends are safe.
3000 tons? Damn. There was a similar screw up in a waste transfer facility in the US where their license allowed transient storage of something like 100 lbs of explosive material and they were permanently storing many tons. Kablammo.
Can't believe how far that shockwave traveled.
Devastating. Feel terrible for the city and its people.
Devastating. Feel terrible for the city and its people.
Another mindblowing parallel.
The largest nuke ever detonated, the Tsar Bomba, had a TNT-equivalent yield of about 56 million tonnes.
2700 tonnes of ammonia nitrate = 1134 tonnes of TNT.
In other words, the Tsar Bomba was 49383x as powerful as the blast in Beirut today.
Little boy, which was dropped on Hiroshima was about 13.2x as powerful
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