https:// twitter.com/Edwinazzi/status/1290669143830790145?s=20
https:// twitter.com/borzou/status/1290678580897251330?s=20
Some local TV stations reported the blast was at Beirut’s port inside an area where firecrackers were stored.
Some videos in the news link and then those 2 twitter accounts.
Second Twitter video the best one. Shows burning building before big mushroom cloud.
Reminds me of that huge explosion in China a few years ago (filmed by that idiotic-sounding expat).
Wow…that’s an interestingly balanced explosion.
That’s uhm…yikes. God bless those folks. They’re going to need it.
That is massive. Wonder what happened
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Lebanon’s Prime Minsiter Hassan Diab has said it is “unacceptable” that 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate were being stored in a warehouse.
“I will not rest until we find the person responsible for what happened so we can hold them to account and impose the most severe punishment,” the prime minister was quoted as saying by an official Twitter account.
“It is unacceptable that a shipment of 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate has been present for six years in a warehouse, without taking preventive measures and endangering the safety of citizens”.
https: //twitter.com/aliostad/status/1290678632210468867?s=20
https: //twitter.com/aliostad/status/1290681445330157569?s=20
https: //twitter.com/aliostad/status/1290743089649405952?s=20
https: //twitter.com/COsweda/status/1290748019218853890?s=20
More 20-30 second-long tweet videos above, just click blue link. Bottom one from far away and shattered car window.
Serious FireCracker that was. The shockwave that spread is presumably why the camera went down for a bit.
I wonder if it was because the ammonium nitrate clumped into a rock hard mass and they attempted to use dynamite to break it up? Something like this happened in the US way back in the day and they thought dynamite wouldn’t detonate it… they were wrong.
Ammonium nitrate absorbs moisture from the air readily so it can clump up if stored for a long time.
The footage from this is completely insane. The explosion blew out all the windows of virtually every building in the vicinity so there’s a bunch of toxic fumes just wafting into people’s homes now. What a disaster.
Well so just another regular day in the Middle East. Nothing more to see here folks.
A former boss of mine lives there and had his windows blown out and his door blown off its hinges.
This is absolutely nuts!
reports that people heard/felt it all the way in Cyprus. 170km-240km away over the Mediterranean, and 40km south of Beirut over land.
Also reports that windows and doors were blown out within a radius of “several kilometers”.
it registered as a M3.3 earthquake.
70+ deaths, 4,000+ injured
Blast was equivalent to 20% of the Hiroshima nuke , or 3KT of TNT
Let’s store those highly flammable fireworks next to those highly explosive 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate. What could go wrong?
It makes sense to keep all the explosive things together for safety. I’m surprised they didn’t locate a gasoline depot there
Hezbollah’s summer camp gone wrong?
I was looking at those pictures and thinking about my neighbors, who escaped from the civil war. They and a lot of folk must be having PTSD nightmares now. Haven’t seen Beirut like that in decades.
https: //twitter.com/JKDubai1/status/1290775202725613570?s=20
All kinds of chatter what happened.
The video above had someone “circle” the screen area and around the 6~7-second mark something appears in the “circle” that looks to fly fast straight into the fire, like a missile. Who knows.
It doesn’t look anything like a missile or fly “straight fast into the fire”. You’d also have to believe a small missile instantaneously initiated a multi-kiloton explosion, and when there was already a raging fire at the scene.