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Nitrate Warehouse Explosion In Beirut

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Sampson

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(Angle 8 is the best angle).

 

This is horrendous. It looks like a nuclear blast.

 

Could well end up killing tens of thousands.

 

Could be heard in Cyprus even.

 

The air is currently unsafe to breathe but everyone's windows have smashed. The hospitals in the area are all massively swamped well past capacity.

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Finnegan

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Weapons? 

 

It's ammonium nitrate, no? It's fertiliser and sometimes industrial blasting agent. 

 

It's what caused Texas, Tianjin and quite a few others. Only Tianjin was about 800 tonnes and apparently this was not far off 3000, just banging around in a warehouse where it had been confiscated. Outstanding health and safety practices. 

 

Also, tens of thousands is (hopefully) wildly sensational and without wanting to be overly sensitive I'm not sure there's any "best angle."

 

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Guest Kopfkino

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It's crazy, it's 9/11 levels of can't believe what your seeing and the devastation. 

 

I was really worried for a friend that lives in Beirut, but apparently she's in New York with the UN atm. I've never known someone have such passion for their country so she'll be in bits rn

VLC86

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It basically looks like a nuke, that’s how big an explosion it is. 
 

That 8th video on the above is carnage, just seeing the buildings getting blasted.

Sampson

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8 minutes ago, Finnegan said:

Weapons? 

 

It's ammonium nitrate, no? It's fertiliser and sometimes industrial blasting agent. 

 

It's what caused Texas, Tianjin and quite a few others. Only Tianjin was about 800 tonnes and apparently this was not far off 3000, just banging around in a warehouse where it had been confiscated. Outstanding health and safety practices. 

 

Also, tens of thousands is (hopefully) wildly sensational and without wanting to be overly sensitive I'm not sure there's any "best angle."

 

Yeah apologies, I've read nitrate angle since.

And apologies if "best angle" came across as insensitive. Obviously I meant best angle in terms of seeing just how far out and how much it's shattered. I didn't mean best angle as in sitting and eating your popcorn.

I really hope you're right, that tens of thousands is sensationalising, but from what I've read the air is highly toxic right now and everyone's windows have been smashed in so there's not a good way to get away from it,

 

Like Kopfkino, it's 9/11 or Fukushima levels of can't believe what you're witnessing though when you see it for the first time.

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Guest seanfox778

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I can't stop watching it! I just can't imagine the devastation it has caused. 

Finnegan

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2 minutes ago, Sampson said:

Yeah apologies, I've read nitrate angle since.

And apologies if "best angle" came across as insensitive. Obviously I meant best angle in terms of seeing just how far out and how much it's shattered. I didn't mean best angle as in sitting and eating your popcorn.

I really hope you're right, that tens of thousands is sensationalising, but from what I've read the air is highly toxic right now and everyone's windows have been smashed in so there's not a good way to get away from it,

 

Like Kopfkino, it's 9/11 or Fukushima levels of can't believe what you're witnessing though when you see it for the first time.

 

It's pretty horrendous. It reminded me of Tianjin as soon as I saw it, I saw that same reddit post and it was #8 that made me wince as well. I imagine the death toll will still rise significantly but hopefully its mercifully low. 

 

As dramatic as it looks, no ammonium nitrate explosion has ever killed thousands let alone tens of them. This probably is the biggest on record though. 

 

Whilst it's not going to make the air quality fantastic, comparisons to nuclear events are thankfully a bit far fetched. 

 

For as long as we've been using the stuff there's been these disasters with it. It's very volatile under the wrong circumstances. 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammonium_nitrate_disasters

 

 

EastAnglianFox

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You get to a point where you think you have seen it all and nothing can really shock anymore but fvcking hell that second blast on some of the videos absolutely took my breath away, speechless at the power of it. 

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StanSP

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It's absolutely surreal seeing something like that. Can't even begin to imagine what it would feel like being amongst that going about your day or even just watching it. 

 

Maybe you think the initial fire and blaze is bad enough then along comes another whopping great big explosion. 

 

Terrible :(

ajthefox

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Never seem anything like that before, it's hard to comprehend how that must've felt. Hopefully the injuries and casualties don't reflect the scale of what you can see.

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LiberalFox

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9 minutes ago, urban.spaceman said:

Anyone found a way to blame Israel yet?

Been a ton of anti Israel stuff on twitter and various conspiracy outfits, then again that's not that new...

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Fightforever

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1 minute ago, LiberalFox said:

Been a ton of anti Israel stuff on twitter and various conspiracy outfits, then again that's not that new...

Damn I was late to post.

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StanSP

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31 minutes ago, Sampson said:

The aftermath looks like Chernobyl in every direction :(

Every building absolutely obliterated if it's not been flattened. Can guess the death toll from this will increase heavily for a good few days :(

 

AjcW

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Potentially stupid question but this seems the best place to ask it...

 

If we take the current line that it was a **** tonne of nitrate... you assume that’s all stored in various containers throughout this warehouse. 
 

What exactly makes something go off like that in one huge blast, when you consider it would be in lots of separate places within the warehouse? Probably being incredibly thick but wouldn’t you expect lots of separate smaller explosions? From some of the videos I assume that’s what I can see from the small spark like explosions before the huge one? 
 

in my head the only way something goes bang like that is if it’s contained in one place... or vessel... IE a huge explosive device. 

Fightforever

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10 minutes ago, AjcW said:

Potentially stupid question but this seems the best place to ask it...

 

If we take the current line that it was a **** tonne of nitrate... you assume that’s all stored in various containers throughout this warehouse. 
 

What exactly makes something go off like that in one huge blast, when you consider it would be in lots of separate places within the warehouse? Probably being incredibly thick but wouldn’t you expect lots of separate smaller explosions? From some of the videos I assume that’s what I can see from the small spark like explosions before the huge one? 
 

in my head the only way something goes bang like that is if it’s contained in one place... or vessel... IE a huge explosive device. 

Could have been a standard fire cause by gross negligence that got out of control. Spread to where the nitrate was and bang.

 

Remember this is a third world country regulation might not be as good as it should be.

We will need to see what investigations discover. To early to comment right now.

Fightforever

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https://twitter.com/borzou/status/1290675854767513600?s=20

Seems like the smoke in the beginning was the aftermath of an initial explosion then the second and much larger one engulfs the city. You can see something sparking in the first few seconds looks like fireworks before it all goes off.

 

Update: director general of Lebanese public security just confirmed the explosion was the cause of a high explosive material confiscated years ago not fireworks

There was probably a firework shop beside it which explains the fireworks going off before the big boom from some video angles

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stripeyfox

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BBC Reporting 100 dead so far and over 4,000 injured!
 

The hospitals must be absolutely overwhelmed (I guess they were already struggling with Covid)

 

I doubt any city's hospitals in the world could cope with that number of injured people all at once

 

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