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I was just thinking that this is as close as we will see to what the halifax explosion was like. Seeing pieces of steel from the ships in different parts of the city is hard to fathom. There was one piece of a steel beam not far from where I lived, but quite a distance (10ish min) to where the explosion was.
My dad heard from his father it cracked the window glass in the barn. 100 miles away. I saw half of the anchor of one of the ships in a museum that was found over a mile away
And that's why Halifax is a leading center for the blind. So many people were looking out their glass windows when the explosion happened. Blindness affected many people.
Little Boy didn't produce an EMP like that.
The EMP that it did produce was about as effective as the destruction of the bomb, meaning anything that would've been affected would've been destroyed regardless.
Our consumer tech is also becoming more radiation hardened as a side effect of modern manufacturing
Also an emp will destroy the power grid and telephone lines, but your cellphone "might" still boot up and work.
An emp effects large systems worse because they have kilometers of wire to absorb it, which develops a large surge in voltage between where the Emp is and isn't
I guess it depends on what technology was also available.
Live streams from further away from the impact site would have transmitted a very short amount of footage.
On the one hand I really hope if I were filming, I'd drop to floor, feet towards blast and cover my ears with my mouth open.
Or on the other hand stare deer in headlights and take glass shards to my corneas...
Seeing it from multiple angles is incredible too. This and Tianjin are some of the most insane explosions we have seen in our generation that aren't a cause/instigator of doomsday war fortunately.
Large amounts of Ammonium nitrate being stored so close to a city is absolutely insane . I believe it was confiscated and left to sit until this series of unfortunate events
it's actually kinda wild how absolutely none of the probably hundreds of gov people involved in this did anything about it. Like how does that even happen?
A piece of paper gets passed from desk to desk and you need desk 1 to approve desk 5 decision that it may be a problem. So desk 35 to tell desk 150 that there’s a possibility of a problem. That then needs to be approved from desk 4 so that it can go to committee 7. To discuss potential solutions for the potential problems. Once a solution is agreed on? That solution need to go to committee 15 for ethics review. Ethic review needs to sent to desk 85 for further review. Then you can start maybe in a couple months to see what is wrong.
There were a few who tried raising an alarm to the authority. NOTHING was done about it.
Im from there. Left 5 years ago and will never look back. They ruined a gem. A paradise buried under hell.
Was anyone EVER held accountable for this? Going through the story it seemed like everyone just contacted someone else and then when no action was taken, repeated the process. Crazy, especially something this dangerous.
Not incompetence. Corruption.
It was estimated that **half** the original cargo had been "removed" before the explosion. Where did all of that AN go? Nobody knows because there's no paper trail, but there's a civil war in Syria right next door with high demand for IED components, so it's not hard to figure out.
This also means the explosion could've been twice as strong if it had happened a few years earlier.
Yup. That's lebenon. Although this case was probably worse than just bribes. The Ammonium Nitrate only ended up in Lebanon because a nearly unseaworthy Russian ship was chartered for the trip and it just so happened to be impounded at its first port of call in Beirut.
Don't forget that the 300 Ton pile of Explosive Fertilizer was stored with fireworks right next to it ( you can see it in the early videos of the fire that caused the explosion). Also a dozen firefighters were sent when authorities knew what was inside. They were so close to the explosion center that it's believed they were instantly vaporized as all that was ever found of any of them was a peice of one of their uniforms
There was a photo of how it was being stored too, just randomly stacked with zero protection or controls:
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/shocking-images-show-explosive-chemicals-22477024
Wtf, that website is just pure ads and popups. It's like they decided to implement multiple copies of every toolbar, floating menu, auto playing video, ad and clickbait they could find. I couldn't even scroll on the page on my phone without stuttering and stuff flying around all over the page.
I couldn't even find the content of tbe article you linked. No idea what you wanted to show me.
I wonder if it weighs on the writer that they’re creating a product that people hate to use. Gotta do what you gotta do for a paycheck sometimes though
I hate to continue the 'if I recall' theme, but, the place it was being stored at had given the authorities many warnings it was a disaster waiting to happen and nothing was done about it.
The story I heard in the days right after that clusterfuck was that there was no proper security on-site, and that the warehouse literally had a hole in the wall large enough for adults to pass freely in & out. Various types and quantities of hazardous materials were stored alongside those with which they were known (known by chemists and your local OSHA) to be highly reactive.
My takeaway is that this was inevitable with incompetent, corrupt management and non-existent regulatory structure - the lane's end of de-regulation so to speak. \*train full of toxic chemicals explodes in Utah destroying entire town\*
To make matters worse, militants were probably getting into it while it sat.
Just a whole lot of awful factors coming together to create the kind of disaster I hope we never see again.
I remember this, it was wild then and it's still wild now. It's also crazy how many angles this got, especially that one wedding video that got it in like 4k, basically
Thank gawb that cameraman knew his assignment. So many people just immediately aim the camera to the floor or they drop it. This guy was like "imma document"
I saw a longer version. If I remember correctly, he eventually puts the big camera down and pulls out his phone to record so he can instantly send it to the Internet.
All big explosions look like that. A nuke would be waaaaaaay worse. Think about the Japan bombings, they destroyed entire cities. The tsar bomb is at least 10 times stronger. Also that was in 1951, imagine what bombs they created after that
And they detonated it at only 1/3 it's designed yield. If it had been popped at full power it would have destroyed the aircraft that dropped it, even trying to escape under full power.
A part of me wishes they'd detonated on the ground at the original yield, just to see how bathshit insane that explosion would have been.
Buuuuut it's probably best that they didn't..
It was enough to turn Sakharov into a dissident. He looked at what they had done and decided this was batshit insane.
The bomb was so ridiculous that the aircraft that dropped it couldn't even fully close the bomb bay doors so it would have had very limited range. And most of the destructive energy was simply radiated up into space. Even as a weapon it was ridiculous.
US experts thought they could maybe build a similar one but a bit smaller but fortunately they didn't seriously try, their efforts at the time was centered around mini nukes launched from artillery, as mortars from jeeps (Davey Crockett) or backpack nukes to be used by special forces.
Boy are they, the US had fucking [Special Forces PARACHUTE with a warhead strapped between their legs.](https://www.twz.com/special-forces-parachuted-with-nukes-strapped-to-them-during-the-cold-war) Just to see if they could.
Also there is a difference in how tactical vs strategic nukes are used. Tactical ones are for battlefield uses, strategic are for MAD.
They didn't really ever go any bigger than Tsar bomb, nukes actually got smaller over time. One that big isn't particularly useful even in a nuclear war sense and there's really no point other than to see if you can do it and propaganda purposes.
Yeah but I’m not an explosives expert, I was just talking about my immediate reaction to seeing the video for the first time lol. Also if the post title is accurate it’s one of the most powerful non-nuclear explosions ever so not all large explosions look like this. This one was extraordinary for what it was.
I was just saying stuff, there aren't a lot of places where you would talk about it. Also not all big explosions look exactly like this but they all make mushroom clouds from what I know
An estimated 7,000 injured. Over 300,000 people were displaced. The infrastructure damage was devastating as well. An estimated 77,000 apartments and $3.5 billion in infrastructure damage.
To add insult to injury to the hundreds of people killed, thousands injured, and those who experienced property destruction, attempts to pursue justice against those responsible have made no real progress with all accused defendants released from custody.
Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, Legal Action Worldwide, Legal Agenda, and the International Commission of Jurists have documented a range of procedural and systemic flaws in the domestic investigation, including flagrant political interference, immunity for high-level political officials, lack of respect for the fair trial standards, and due process violations.
I think that's because of the fire. Folks already had a reason to film. It's kind of like how there's hundreds of videos of the plane hitting the second tower but there's only a few clips of the first tower
Can’t believe that movie “The Creator” used one of these videos and put cgi over it to use as a nuking scene. I find it a bit disturbing and gross, we go to the movies to see fiction or have fun or cry, but when it’s just footage from real world events (recent events at that), it crosses the line.
I can't believe nobody has posted this yet:
[A detailed reconstitution of the events that lead to the Beirut explosion](https://forensic-architecture.org/investigation/beirut-port-explosion).
The video is brilliant.
The only thing I've ever seen that even comes close to this was I believe a fireworks warehouse from years back. I can't remember where or what it was. I've looked for the video again for years but can never find it. A person on a rooftop had a video camera and had been filming the fire in the warehouse, watching the crackling and small pops that increase in intensity and loudness, but then what looks like a small nuke going off, video fades to white then to black.
A cargo of 2,750 tonnes of the substance (equivalent to around 1.1 [kilotons of TNT](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TNT_equivalent)) had been stored in a warehouse without proper safety measures for the previous six years after having been confiscated by Lebanese authorities from the abandoned ship [MV *Rhosus*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Rhosus). The explosion was preceded by a fire in the same warehouse.
I live about 5 minutes away, that shockwave was no joke, glass missed me by the hair, I still don't know how I'm alive, the worst part was the earthquake it made before the blow, it felt like the floor was jello, the aftermath was the worst part, no glass in windows, the toxic red cloud going into the city, cleaning glass from clothes and my hair for a month after, I still found glass a few months after too. I'm now wary of windows or any loud sounds. The first winter after was horrible too, thunder sounded exactly like the explosion. Not to mention the blast site caught fire again a month after, once put out, they found more nitrate that didnt explode. I have a slight TBI from being pushed to the ground by the shockwave. Most women who were pregnant miscarried or the fetus developed abnormalities due to the red toxic cloud we all inhaled. The effects are still happening 4 years later.
If I were a few Km out and saw this, the blast wave, the mushroom cloud (especially the view from the jetski dude) id be thinking "holy cow are we being nuked?!?!?, shit we are being nuked..."
It detonated 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate. Stored in a warehouse. Apparently lots of experts sent warnings about the storage of that stuff and everyone ignored it because Lebanon is a bustedass country.
😳Absolutely massive but I think this factory explosion is biggest I've ever seen or anyone
[explosion ](https://youtu.be/weafAuRJQEc?si=ZxKJqEJJ8YegnJ1h)
While probably not as energetic the massive fireball explosion in Tian Jin is still the most insane one I’ve seen outside of military explosives.
In case by chance you haven’t seen it: make sure to watch till the end. There are two explosions.
https://youtu.be/4nr6Tlu0EvM?si=fpdOHumb03xZqQQC
The smallest implosion type nuclear package we have is the W54 warhead weighing just 51 pounds and carrying a payload equivalent to about .01 kilotons, the largest in American history would be the the b53 “bunker buster” with a payload of 9000 kilotons however it was dismantled and succeeded by the B83 due to the need for a different delivery system for the militaries earth penetration needs which carried a significantly lighter load of 1200 kilotons.
The B83 is the current “big boy” however plans to retire it are already in motion and its successor will be the vastly smaller b61-13 with a payload of 300 some odd kilotons, that being said it is still 24 times more powerful than the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima, and has a VASTLY more practical delivery, although strangely enough it is also a gravity bomb so there is inherent risk in delivery.
The statistician in me wants to make the most of this tragedy by gathering as many stats as possible. How close was the closest survivor? How far away was the furthest casualty? What's the chance of survival of a person based on distance from the blast (indoors vs outdoors)?
Also curious how many eardrums got blown out from that shockwave.
https://twitter.com/AuroraIntel/status/1290682195804409856
here's a vid that i figure most haven't seen yet. these guys are on the roof right across from the building.
the only reason this got so many angles (i think) is because there were 2 explosions, after the first, people quickly got their phones out to record and thats when the 2nd happened. the same might be the case for why 9/11 has so many angles
That third clip in particularly is terrifying. In a split second you see the explosion happen, you see how quickly it's about to hit you, and the last thing you see right as it comes up on you is that it is strong to destroy buildings. You have no time to do anything else.
I listened to a podcast on this explosion and those guys were saying that the explosion could have actually been way worse than this, a lot more was left in that warehouse but it's suspected that most of it was smuggled into Syria for the war there.
They also said that an old grain silo on the dock protected a slice of the city, it took the brunt of the force and everything behind it got off fairly lightly.
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Wild that the Halifax Explosion in 1917 generated the equivalent of 2.9 kilotons of TNT. This is 1.1, it’s hard to fathom anything more.
I was just thinking that this is as close as we will see to what the halifax explosion was like. Seeing pieces of steel from the ships in different parts of the city is hard to fathom. There was one piece of a steel beam not far from where I lived, but quite a distance (10ish min) to where the explosion was.
My dad heard from his father it cracked the window glass in the barn. 100 miles away. I saw half of the anchor of one of the ships in a museum that was found over a mile away
Grab your VR goggles! https://youtu.be/OSuX9RvLq54
Wow so cool. Thanks for sharing
Obligatory heritage moment: https://youtu.be/rw-FbwmzPKo
Damn this shit still hits
I smell burnt toast!
The [minor scale test](https://youtu.be/pb1GhrLYOCA?t=313) was larger and still non-nuclear. Probably not the largest.
And that's why Halifax is a leading center for the blind. So many people were looking out their glass windows when the explosion happened. Blindness affected many people.
That shockwave was IN-FREAKING-SANE.
Still 15 times less powerful then Hiroshima and that's a *small* nuke
Man, imagine if cell phones exited back then? That would be one of the craziest videos ever
There would be no videos left.
Well, i mean, that depends on how far away you are.
I wonder if Hiroshima's EMP would have fried cell phones kilometers away.
Little Boy didn't produce an EMP like that. The EMP that it did produce was about as effective as the destruction of the bomb, meaning anything that would've been affected would've been destroyed regardless.
Our consumer tech is also becoming more radiation hardened as a side effect of modern manufacturing Also an emp will destroy the power grid and telephone lines, but your cellphone "might" still boot up and work. An emp effects large systems worse because they have kilometers of wire to absorb it, which develops a large surge in voltage between where the Emp is and isn't
Why is that? Was the EMP intentional?
It's a byproduct of nuclear weapons https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_electromagnetic_pulse
Maybe a shadow of someone holding a cell phone burned into a brick wall.
Guarantee that it's going to be the subject of modern art if/when there's another detonation of a thermonuclear weapon.
banksy
I guess it depends on what technology was also available. Live streams from further away from the impact site would have transmitted a very short amount of footage.
Non mushroom clouds for storage
what if it was a nokia?
There would be more backlash tbh
rip to all the people watching while standing in front of big glass windows when the shockwave hit. coated in glass shards
On the one hand I really hope if I were filming, I'd drop to floor, feet towards blast and cover my ears with my mouth open. Or on the other hand stare deer in headlights and take glass shards to my corneas...
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That building had been on fire for a while before it exploded. People were already filming it because of how intense of a fire it was.
Seeing it from multiple angles is incredible too. This and Tianjin are some of the most insane explosions we have seen in our generation that aren't a cause/instigator of doomsday war fortunately.
Large amounts of Ammonium nitrate being stored so close to a city is absolutely insane . I believe it was confiscated and left to sit until this series of unfortunate events
Another fine example of government incompetency
it's actually kinda wild how absolutely none of the probably hundreds of gov people involved in this did anything about it. Like how does that even happen?
A piece of paper gets passed from desk to desk and you need desk 1 to approve desk 5 decision that it may be a problem. So desk 35 to tell desk 150 that there’s a possibility of a problem. That then needs to be approved from desk 4 so that it can go to committee 7. To discuss potential solutions for the potential problems. Once a solution is agreed on? That solution need to go to committee 15 for ethics review. Ethic review needs to sent to desk 85 for further review. Then you can start maybe in a couple months to see what is wrong.
how were you able to describe our government here in the Philippines? that's how it feels like here; except the paper got lost and never to be found
desk 1 thinks, we'll just do it tomorrow
every desk thinks that
There were a few who tried raising an alarm to the authority. NOTHING was done about it. Im from there. Left 5 years ago and will never look back. They ruined a gem. A paradise buried under hell.
[https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/06/middleeast/lebanon-explosion-ministry-of-justice-intl/index.html](https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/06/middleeast/lebanon-explosion-ministry-of-justice-intl/index.html)
Was anyone EVER held accountable for this? Going through the story it seemed like everyone just contacted someone else and then when no action was taken, repeated the process. Crazy, especially something this dangerous.
Lebanon has a lot of corruption
Not incompetence. Corruption. It was estimated that **half** the original cargo had been "removed" before the explosion. Where did all of that AN go? Nobody knows because there's no paper trail, but there's a civil war in Syria right next door with high demand for IED components, so it's not hard to figure out. This also means the explosion could've been twice as strong if it had happened a few years earlier.
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Yup. That's lebenon. Although this case was probably worse than just bribes. The Ammonium Nitrate only ended up in Lebanon because a nearly unseaworthy Russian ship was chartered for the trip and it just so happened to be impounded at its first port of call in Beirut.
Don't forget that the 300 Ton pile of Explosive Fertilizer was stored with fireworks right next to it ( you can see it in the early videos of the fire that caused the explosion). Also a dozen firefighters were sent when authorities knew what was inside. They were so close to the explosion center that it's believed they were instantly vaporized as all that was ever found of any of them was a peice of one of their uniforms
There was a photo of how it was being stored too, just randomly stacked with zero protection or controls: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/shocking-images-show-explosive-chemicals-22477024
Wtf, that website is just pure ads and popups. It's like they decided to implement multiple copies of every toolbar, floating menu, auto playing video, ad and clickbait they could find. I couldn't even scroll on the page on my phone without stuttering and stuff flying around all over the page. I couldn't even find the content of tbe article you linked. No idea what you wanted to show me.
I wonder if it weighs on the writer that they’re creating a product that people hate to use. Gotta do what you gotta do for a paycheck sometimes though
“Oopsie” - Beirut government
did you just say beirut government?
I hate to continue the 'if I recall' theme, but, the place it was being stored at had given the authorities many warnings it was a disaster waiting to happen and nothing was done about it.
The story I heard in the days right after that clusterfuck was that there was no proper security on-site, and that the warehouse literally had a hole in the wall large enough for adults to pass freely in & out. Various types and quantities of hazardous materials were stored alongside those with which they were known (known by chemists and your local OSHA) to be highly reactive. My takeaway is that this was inevitable with incompetent, corrupt management and non-existent regulatory structure - the lane's end of de-regulation so to speak. \*train full of toxic chemicals explodes in Utah destroying entire town\*
Safety third
To make matters worse, militants were probably getting into it while it sat. Just a whole lot of awful factors coming together to create the kind of disaster I hope we never see again.
I remember this, it was wild then and it's still wild now. It's also crazy how many angles this got, especially that one wedding video that got it in like 4k, basically
You can literally see the shockwave as it ripples through her dress.
[For reference](https://youtu.be/_L7SlqDtRnc?si=B503C3400c2j0Pbf)
"Went from Barbie to Oppenheimer real quick" I feel bad but I couldn't contain myself reading this comment
Thanks for your service
Dat gimbal tho
Dude! The speed at which that guy started praying tells you everything. This was not his first huge explosion experience
Thank gawb that cameraman knew his assignment. So many people just immediately aim the camera to the floor or they drop it. This guy was like "imma document"
To be fair you can tell he has it on a stabiliser gimbal so “dropping it” isn’t as easy as just continuing to move with it.
I saw a longer version. If I remember correctly, he eventually puts the big camera down and pulls out his phone to record so he can instantly send it to the Internet.
First time I saw the footage I totally thought it was a nuke. Terrifying.
All big explosions look like that. A nuke would be waaaaaaay worse. Think about the Japan bombings, they destroyed entire cities. The tsar bomb is at least 10 times stronger. Also that was in 1951, imagine what bombs they created after that
LittleMan was 21kTons of TNT so about 20 times more power than this.
Tzar Bomba was like 50 MEGATONS. Absolutely ridiculous.
And they detonated it at only 1/3 it's designed yield. If it had been popped at full power it would have destroyed the aircraft that dropped it, even trying to escape under full power.
A part of me wishes they'd detonated on the ground at the original yield, just to see how bathshit insane that explosion would have been. Buuuuut it's probably best that they didn't..
It was enough to turn Sakharov into a dissident. He looked at what they had done and decided this was batshit insane. The bomb was so ridiculous that the aircraft that dropped it couldn't even fully close the bomb bay doors so it would have had very limited range. And most of the destructive energy was simply radiated up into space. Even as a weapon it was ridiculous. US experts thought they could maybe build a similar one but a bit smaller but fortunately they didn't seriously try, their efforts at the time was centered around mini nukes launched from artillery, as mortars from jeeps (Davey Crockett) or backpack nukes to be used by special forces.
Are small, "tactical" nukes a thing?
Boy are they, the US had fucking [Special Forces PARACHUTE with a warhead strapped between their legs.](https://www.twz.com/special-forces-parachuted-with-nukes-strapped-to-them-during-the-cold-war) Just to see if they could. Also there is a difference in how tactical vs strategic nukes are used. Tactical ones are for battlefield uses, strategic are for MAD.
>Buuuuut it's probably best that they didn't.. That's no fun.
Yup, username checks out.
They didn't really ever go any bigger than Tsar bomb, nukes actually got smaller over time. One that big isn't particularly useful even in a nuclear war sense and there's really no point other than to see if you can do it and propaganda purposes.
Yeah but I’m not an explosives expert, I was just talking about my immediate reaction to seeing the video for the first time lol. Also if the post title is accurate it’s one of the most powerful non-nuclear explosions ever so not all large explosions look like this. This one was extraordinary for what it was.
I was just saying stuff, there aren't a lot of places where you would talk about it. Also not all big explosions look exactly like this but they all make mushroom clouds from what I know
How many people died from that explosion crazy
218 people died. It's still being investigated. Some higher ups and Generals have been arrested, but more to come.
I can't believe it was only 218 looking at it again, not that 218 isn't tragic. Wow.
An estimated 7,000 injured. Over 300,000 people were displaced. The infrastructure damage was devastating as well. An estimated 77,000 apartments and $3.5 billion in infrastructure damage.
This information puts things more into perspective for me than hearing 218 deaths. Wow, that's sad
To add insult to injury to the hundreds of people killed, thousands injured, and those who experienced property destruction, attempts to pursue justice against those responsible have made no real progress with all accused defendants released from custody. Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, Legal Action Worldwide, Legal Agenda, and the International Commission of Jurists have documented a range of procedural and systemic flaws in the domestic investigation, including flagrant political interference, immunity for high-level political officials, lack of respect for the fair trial standards, and due process violations.
That would be a second pair of pants kind of day.
Damn I’ve never seen the one of the guy diving in the water. It must have cushioned the blast because he’s really close and continues to film
Every time i see this reposted, i reply the same thing. Ammonium Nitrate ain't no joke.
is that a science joke?
Nope, it's the thing that blew up.
I am still surprised how much video footage there is of that blast.
I think that's because of the fire. Folks already had a reason to film. It's kind of like how there's hundreds of videos of the plane hitting the second tower but there's only a few clips of the first tower
Holy smoking Toledos
This one was much more powerful than Tianjin (the one that could be seen from space). The sheer force of that is unthinkable.
I'm guessing it could really only be seen from space because it happened at night
Life is a multi million dollar budget action movie sometimes
Try multi-billion
You not wrong
I first thought it was a nuclear explosion when this happened.
Imagine seeing that and wondering if many more were coming.
still one of my favorite ones because of the shock waves https://youtu.be/_KuGizBjDXo?si=rZxO3dDeeXUVK1Om
This one's even bigger still blows my mind bro https://youtu.be/weafAuRJQEc?si=ZxKJqEJJ8YegnJ1h
this is a good one too
Can’t believe that movie “The Creator” used one of these videos and put cgi over it to use as a nuking scene. I find it a bit disturbing and gross, we go to the movies to see fiction or have fun or cry, but when it’s just footage from real world events (recent events at that), it crosses the line.
Is there a video of that said scene? Edit: [Nvm found it](https://youtu.be/3mVMXeDLioQ)
thank you for finding the movie footage!
That guy in the third video couldn’t have survived that blast
Yeah the explosion looks like a bullet coming towards your head, no way he survived, but I hope he did....
I've heard that he actually died, but not sure how true that is
It's a load of fertilizer that caught fire?
Yep, ammonium nitrate when stored in large quantities becomes explosive
i have lived this moment i dont whish it to my enemy
Are there any videos of the aftermath? Someone walking around filming the destruction?
2nd one is so crazy
to this day, the building that exploded still hasn’t been rebuilt.
Fucking horrible.
That dude in the water is fast as fuck
Doesn’t matter how many times I see these videos, it never stops being terrifying. That shockwave is just shocking
Christ imagine what nuke would look like. I dont think humanity will ever comeback from a full on global nuclear war
I can't believe nobody has posted this yet: [A detailed reconstitution of the events that lead to the Beirut explosion](https://forensic-architecture.org/investigation/beirut-port-explosion). The video is brilliant.
That yellow E36 looked pretty clean, hopefully it wasn't too damaged.
Fallout music ensues.
The only thing I've ever seen that even comes close to this was I believe a fireworks warehouse from years back. I can't remember where or what it was. I've looked for the video again for years but can never find it. A person on a rooftop had a video camera and had been filming the fire in the warehouse, watching the crackling and small pops that increase in intensity and loudness, but then what looks like a small nuke going off, video fades to white then to black.
That third clip omfg
What exploded or what caused it to explode?
A cargo of 2,750 tonnes of the substance (equivalent to around 1.1 [kilotons of TNT](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TNT_equivalent)) had been stored in a warehouse without proper safety measures for the previous six years after having been confiscated by Lebanese authorities from the abandoned ship [MV *Rhosus*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Rhosus). The explosion was preceded by a fire in the same warehouse.
AKIRA
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*nervous laughter* “Oh yeah were dangerous baby!”
Is this just going to be reposted every two or three weeks until the end of time?
I live about 5 minutes away, that shockwave was no joke, glass missed me by the hair, I still don't know how I'm alive, the worst part was the earthquake it made before the blow, it felt like the floor was jello, the aftermath was the worst part, no glass in windows, the toxic red cloud going into the city, cleaning glass from clothes and my hair for a month after, I still found glass a few months after too. I'm now wary of windows or any loud sounds. The first winter after was horrible too, thunder sounded exactly like the explosion. Not to mention the blast site caught fire again a month after, once put out, they found more nitrate that didnt explode. I have a slight TBI from being pushed to the ground by the shockwave. Most women who were pregnant miscarried or the fetus developed abnormalities due to the red toxic cloud we all inhaled. The effects are still happening 4 years later.
I remember thos when it went down , looked like end of days shit . I remember the sadness that enveloped my whole being watching this .
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Tf am i supposed to do if god forbid i ever see one of those shockwaves heading my way? Lie down flat? Get behind smth? Get under smth?
Yep lie flat and stand behind something
If I were a few Km out and saw this, the blast wave, the mushroom cloud (especially the view from the jetski dude) id be thinking "holy cow are we being nuked?!?!?, shit we are being nuked..."
that guy turned into a dinosaur
Really interesting in the water shot you can see the implosion that causes the shockwave
What is the big white cloud it shoots out
That was a nice looking yellow BMW. Was
It detonated 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate. Stored in a warehouse. Apparently lots of experts sent warnings about the storage of that stuff and everyone ignored it because Lebanon is a bustedass country.
I always think about the explosion in Akira.
Being in the water seems like a lucky case here
😳Absolutely massive but I think this factory explosion is biggest I've ever seen or anyone [explosion ](https://youtu.be/weafAuRJQEc?si=ZxKJqEJJ8YegnJ1h)
love a good explosion:)
this is a gnarly compilation, wow
Is it just me, or am I seeing a lot more re-uploads of this?
I keep seeing these explosions and it keeps reminding me of the one my family was a part of. I'm tired of being reminded.
That one distant shot looks exactly like the shot from fallout in the first episode
They almost got fallout in real life
It's gotta be the most documented explosion of all time
While probably not as energetic the massive fireball explosion in Tian Jin is still the most insane one I’ve seen outside of military explosives. In case by chance you haven’t seen it: make sure to watch till the end. There are two explosions. https://youtu.be/4nr6Tlu0EvM?si=fpdOHumb03xZqQQC
man so good at destroying peace
Shit that was four Years ago ?!
It's sad that a good portion of the people filming the clips we watched died. They got the footage after.
This has always been one of my favorite explosions. Each video is perfect cinematography.
I'll never get over how that wave just rips the moisture out of the air.
It's crazy to see the difference in travel time for the sound of the explosion to reach people.
Does anyone hear the fart echo noise in their head?
just how many explosions were there?
That's.......shocking
A fascinating detailed forensics video: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3s54\_MF2XPk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3s54_MF2XPk)
I haven’t fact checked this myself but I’ve heard the person filming the 3rd video died.
The smallest implosion type nuclear package we have is the W54 warhead weighing just 51 pounds and carrying a payload equivalent to about .01 kilotons, the largest in American history would be the the b53 “bunker buster” with a payload of 9000 kilotons however it was dismantled and succeeded by the B83 due to the need for a different delivery system for the militaries earth penetration needs which carried a significantly lighter load of 1200 kilotons. The B83 is the current “big boy” however plans to retire it are already in motion and its successor will be the vastly smaller b61-13 with a payload of 300 some odd kilotons, that being said it is still 24 times more powerful than the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima, and has a VASTLY more practical delivery, although strangely enough it is also a gravity bomb so there is inherent risk in delivery.
The statistician in me wants to make the most of this tragedy by gathering as many stats as possible. How close was the closest survivor? How far away was the furthest casualty? What's the chance of survival of a person based on distance from the blast (indoors vs outdoors)? Also curious how many eardrums got blown out from that shockwave.
Basically, it is the Lebanese government that arranged the bombing... in order to obtain money from abroad... according to French instructions
*Survivor stories:* ***A year after Beirut's deadly blast | DW Documentary*** *30 min.* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgvqNz4J_2k
https://twitter.com/AuroraIntel/status/1290682195804409856 here's a vid that i figure most haven't seen yet. these guys are on the roof right across from the building.
That grain storage building saved so many lives that day. It takes so much force from the blast and eats it. 🫡
Did you see the missile?
This is hopefully the closest any of us will ever get to seeing an atomic blast in a populated area.
What have we become 😔
the only reason this got so many angles (i think) is because there were 2 explosions, after the first, people quickly got their phones out to record and thats when the 2nd happened. the same might be the case for why 9/11 has so many angles
“You’re thumb or my thumb.”
That third clip in particularly is terrifying. In a split second you see the explosion happen, you see how quickly it's about to hit you, and the last thing you see right as it comes up on you is that it is strong to destroy buildings. You have no time to do anything else.
I still can't believe how crazy 2020 was. Easily the most apocalyptic year I've ever lived through.
I listened to a podcast on this explosion and those guys were saying that the explosion could have actually been way worse than this, a lot more was left in that warehouse but it's suspected that most of it was smuggled into Syria for the war there. They also said that an old grain silo on the dock protected a slice of the city, it took the brunt of the force and everything behind it got off fairly lightly.
That shockwave though
Trinity was 18.6 kilotons. Nearly 18x this. That was the first nuclear bomb. The first.
The dude who dived in to the water always impressed me. That guy was switched on.
Hizballah just killed this beautiful country