Massive explosion in Beirut, Lebanon

[KRYPTON INC.]

Lebanese capital rocked by huge explosion: Live updates

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

 

[Zorro]

Whoa that after blast went fast and hard!

 

[Shinobi Shaw]

My God that explosion was harrowing.

 

[Gee]

Apparently, it was caused by ammonium nitrate (similarly to the Tianjin explosions few years ago).

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

Apparently, it was caused by ammonium nitrate (similarly to the Tianjin explosions few years ago).

Any other details?

 

[Gee]

Any other details?

*Sodium nitrate after all... ? Still seems unclear.

 

[Sithborg]

Clearly, stuff wasn't stored properly. But it does make sense that something else caught fire just before the extremely explosive stuff caught on.

 

[Zorro]

How big is the death/injury rate?

 

[Sithborg]

Last I saw, 50 dead, 2500? injured.

 

[MissMarvelous]

Whoa that after blast went fast and hard!

Yeah, I think my stomach is in my throat right now!!

That was terrifying.

 

[moviefreak]

Look at the shockwave:

 

[Zorro]

Last I saw, 50 dead, 2500? injured.

Sad

 

[moviefreak]

2700 tons? WTF!

2 tons was used for the Oklahoma bombing.

 

[Morg]

someone made a supercut of the explosive

 

[InCali]

2700 tons? WTF!

2 tons was used for the Oklahoma bombing.

Probably an unstable genius came up with that one

 

[jmc]

Why the hell was there nearly 3000 tonnes of explosives in the middle of the city?

 

[Sithborg]

Why the hell was there nearly 3000 tonnes of explosives in the middle of the city?

Confiscated at the port. And then, just kind of sat there...

 

[DarthSkywalker]

It honestly looks like something out of an anime. That's how surreal it all looks. So horrible.

 

[Brutikus]

Why the hell was there nearly 3000 tonnes of explosives in the middle of the city?

Well Hezbollah are in control of the port and they do like their bombs to go blow up people.

 

[Marvolo]

Why the hell was there nearly 3000 tonnes of explosives in the middle of the city?

Afaik sodium nitrate is used in fertilizer and other applications. Its not only used for explosives. So I suspect there is a **** ton of sodium nitrate in most cities.

 

[Donner]

someone made a supercut of the explosive

Oh ****. In one of those clips there are cars in motion and it cuts right as the shockwave hits them.

Yikes.

 

[Donner]

Well Hezbollah are in control of the port and they do like their bombs to go blow up people.

Come on, man. Every news outlet is reporting that it was ammonium nitrate confiscated at the port and stored improperly. No need to bring terrorism into it when there is no evidence of it.

 

[Lily Adler]

 

[Zorro]

Horrible and scarry that we may have seen thre deaths of those people recording in their pov of their final moments