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Large Explosion in Beirut

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  • #52
    Signore Fancy Pants
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    Cheerful Spring2 wrote: »
    It was likely a weapon explosives storage/ facility. Highly unlikely you see an explosion like that from fireworks. Who the weapons belong to Lebanese army or Hezbelloh? Lebanese army, likely a freak accident.

    That area does store fireworks, also Beirut Naval Base is just around the corner...where weapons and ammunition is stored.


  • #53
    ChikiChiki
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    Given the geographic location it wouldn't be the slightest surprising if the initial fire crept into a location where arms where stored.

    Hard to say at this point in time but that is one massive explosion.


  • #54
    iwillhtfu
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    The explosion being right in a port it was most likely petro chemical or gas. Why would anyone target a port area with an air strike. Also if they suspected Israel in anyway we would have already seen a response. Looked to be electrical transformers with all of the arcing going on in the initial dust cloud.


  • #55
    The Unbearables
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    iwillhtfu wrote: »
    The explosion being right in a port it was most likely petro chemical or gas. Why would anyone target a port area with an air strike. Also if they suspected Israel in anyway we would have already seen a response. Looked to be electrical transformers with all of the arcing going on in the initial dust cloud.

    A response how? There is very little they could do to hurt Israel.


  • #56
    Gatling
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    Cheerful Spring2 wrote: »
    It was likely a weapon explosives storage/ facility. Highly unlikely you see an explosion like that from fireworks.

    A facility with tons of gunpowder , wouldn't explode like that .



    Oh yes it absolutely would
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  • #57
    Cheerful Spring2
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    Signore Fancy Pants wrote: »
    That area does store fireworks, also Beirut Naval Base is just around the corner...where weapons and ammunition is stored.

    What do you mean by around the corner? What the distance from the initial blast? The blast occurred inside a warehouse, looked like it came from below ground? Where the storing explosives at lower levels inside that building? To me it looked like a high explosive detonation at the end. Maybe there was fireworks at the port, still i be shocked if the cause was only that?


  • #58
    Tzardine
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    Sky News headline reporting that at least 10 dead.

    No sh1t.

    Reports of hospitals turning away injured due to over capacity.

    I would expect hundreds of deaths in a blast such as that. It picked cars up and threw them like dolls ffs.

    The footage of the blast is chilling.


  • #59
    MisterAnarchy
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    https://twitter.com/ragipsoylu/status/1290698269421600770


  • #60
    The Unbearables
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    Cheerful Spring2 wrote: »
    What do you mean by around the corner? What the distance from the initial blast? The blast occurred inside a warehouse, looked like it came from below ground? Where the storing explosives at lower levels inside that building? To me it looked like a high explosive detonation at the end. Maybe there was fireworks at the port, still i be shocked if the cause was only that?

    I think it's fairly obvious it's not fireworks at the end.

    Reports saying possibly hundreds dead and injured.

    Whole apartment buildings just completely destroyed


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  • #61
    Harry Palmr
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    Cheerful Spring2 wrote: »
    It was likely a weapon explosives storage/ facility. Highly unlikely you see an explosion like that from fireworks. Who the weapons belong to Lebanese army or Hezbelloh? Lebanese army, likely a freak accident.

    Danish fireworks 2000 lbs (it's an american report), very big bangs here. Obviously explosions vary depending on how they are stored, amount, type and the chain reaction length and sequence.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4iNOguCNFQ


    Sodium nitrate, skip to last 15 seconds

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzDC3iKbTzY


  • #62
    lalababa
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    Lastest report from the LBN is that final explosion was caused by the fireworks igniting a build up of dust in a fertilizer added value warehouse situated 500+ meters away.
    The normal cleaner Malika hala El Din was off for c-19 isolation.


  • #63
    Cheerful Spring2
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    Harry Palmr wrote: »
    Danish fireworks 2000 lbs (it's an american report), very big bangs here. Obviously explosions vary depending on how they are stored, amount, type and the chain reaction length and sequence.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4iNOguCNFQ


    Sodium nitrate, skip to last 15 seconds

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzDC3iKbTzY

    Second explosion resembles what happened in Lebanon the best. It could be a combination of things, but a poster tweet about sodium nitrate makes sense.
    Used in solid propellants, explosives, fertilizers, and for many other uses.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_nitrate


  • #64
    Gatling
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    Cheerful Spring2 wrote: »
    It could be a combination of things, but a poster tweet about sodium nitrate makes sense.

    Favourite explosive of the terrorist when Semtex wasn't available and Timothy McVeigh (or similar)
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  • #65
    theguzman
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    120,000 tonnes of grain lost to a country who has lost their currency and is rapidly turning into a Weimar Republic is not good news.


  • #66
    sdanseo
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    Based on the first video, that thing has vaoporised about ten square blocks.
    The video in the office, based on the speed of sound, where the windows blew out was about 1km away and extremely heavy damage even there.

    This is extremely bad.
    Sad reflection on society is that it's probably not going to be as big international news as if it had happened in the US or Europe. It will find its way down the headlines by Thursday.


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  • #67
    inforfun
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    https://twitter.com/Intel_Sky/status/1290697376441806848


  • #68
    AMKC
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    Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »
    I don’t know what caused it but this video is scary af

    https://twitter.com/priapusiq/status/1290677516278038534?s=21

    A pity your man is so useless with the camera. That is a terrible explosion alright. Poor Lebonon just never seems to get any better over there.

    Live long and Prosper

    Peace and long life.



  • #69
    c.p.w.g.w
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    Just seen a few videos...the visible shock wave is like something from a movie


  • #70
    Cheerful Spring2
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    Gatling wrote: »
    Favourite explosive of the terrorist when Semtex wasn't available and Timothy McVeigh (or similar)

    I reading now it was ammonium nitrate got stored there? We have to see what story true in the coming hours?
    Ammonium nitrate is the ammonium salt of nitric acid. It has a role as a fertilizer, an explosive and an oxidising agent

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

    https://twitter.com/AsharqNewsBrk/status/1290708461702057985
    #الشرق_عاجل : Lebanese Interior Minister Mohamed Fahmy told Al-Jadeed TV: The highly explosive materials that were in ward No. 12 are ammonium nitrate, and you should ask customs about the reason for their presence there


  • #71
    statesaver
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    Christ, that was some explosion.

    Saw a tweet saying they felt the shockwave in Cyprus !!!


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  • #72
    Steve012
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    The Unbearables wrote: »
    I think it's fairly obvious it's not fireworks at the end.

    Reports saying possibly hundreds dead and injured.

    Whole apartment buildings just completely destroyed


    Not fireworks mate, but some very explosive material, you can clearly see little sparks go off before the second wallop. Must have jumped to a munitions storage area.

    Israel, just said they had nothing to do with it.

    Prayers to all those affected.


  • #73
    leahyl
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    sdanseo wrote: »
    Based on the first video, that thing has vaoporised about ten square blocks.
    The video in the office, based on the speed of sound, where the windows blew out was about 1km away and extremely heavy damage even there.

    This is extremely bad.
    Sad reflection on society is that it's probably not going to be as big international news as if it had happened in the US or Europe. It will find its way down the headlines by Thursday.

    I work with a guy from Beirut, he only returned from there last week having visited his family. He said it’s very very bad there; this now on top of the problem they already have, the country is in dire straits. It’s so sad.


  • #74
    Sardonicat
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    c.p.w.g.w wrote: »
    Just seen a few videos...the visible shock wave is like something from a movie

    Hard to believe your own eyes. Imagine seeing that racing towards you. I can only assume the death toll will be enormous and the number of life altering injuries too.


  • #75
    MadYaker
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    Sardonicat wrote: »
    Hard to believe your own eyes. Imagine seeing that racing towards you. I can only assume the death toll will be enormous and the number of life altering injuries too.

    Anyone that was in the port is probably dead but hopefully it won't be in the hundreds. It was a ship with a load of ammonium nitrate on board according to the lebanese interior minister.


  • #76
    Overheal
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    Lot of people gone deaf after that I reckon


  • #77
    Gatling
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    Overheal wrote: »
    Lot of people gone deaf after that I reckon

    Add possible concussive brain injuries too
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  • #78
    Dillonb3
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    Looks like a lot of the casualties are Firefighters who were on scene dealing with the initial blaze


  • #79
    joseywhales
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    The really close building look like they were completely levelled. Must be hell to live there right now


  • #80
    Strumms
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    c.p.w.g.w wrote: »
    Just seen a few videos...the visible shock wave is like something from a movie

    That’s was my first reaction, just like a movie special effect. Looked to have just blown apart a couple of square miles... wow :(


  • #81
    Man with broke phone
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    Jesus the amount of people in intollerable pain right now either trapped in rubble or turning up at a hospital that has no medicine, people out of work with Id imagine no social welfare system.

    The country was about to go broke before this. Horrible.


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  • #82
    [Deleted User]
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    I’m watching Al Jazeera. They’re talking to a man now who is talking about the air being toxic.


  • #83
    Strumms
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    Any emergency worker, police, firefighter, ambulance, security within a mile or two at a guess is just dead.


  • #84
    Dante7
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    https://twitter.com/LanC_02/status/1290719695436312576?s=20


  • #85
    namloc1980
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    The orange smoke would indicate some kind of nitrous compounds like fertiliser or something like that. Fertiliser being a common explosive also if Hezbollah weapons store are being blamed.


  • #86
    [Deleted User]
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    Edit:

    Al Jazeera
    Over 30 now dead. 3000 injured


  • #87
    Gruffalux
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    Absolutely shocking. The poor people.

    I know people hate the DM but they always have the images early. Looks like enormous devastation.


    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8592549/Massive-explosion-rocks-Beirut-destroying-buildings.html


  • #88
    SEPT 23 1989
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    Looks like a gummy shark


  • #89
    namloc1980
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    This will be one of the largest non-nuclear explosions ever.


  • #90
    Gruffalux
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    Before and after - the port.

    https://twitter.com/Tariqazi12/status/1290723007225266178?s=20


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  • #91
    Strumms
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    The mail, reporting a roof at the airport, six miles away collapsed.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8592549/Massive-explosion-rocks-Beirut-destroying-buildings.html


  • #92
    Ten of Swords
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    namloc1980 wrote: »
    This will be one of the largest non-nuclear explosions ever.

    Halifax explosion in 1917 was estimated at 2.9 kilo tons and practically flattened the entire city. As bad as this explosion looks thankfully it doesn't appear to be anywhere near that scale.

    Will be a few days before the extent of casualties are known

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  • #93
    dere34
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    27 dead 2000 injured.


  • #94
    o1s1n
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    Master of the Universe


    c.p.w.g.w wrote: »
    Just seen a few videos...the visible shock wave is like something from a movie

    Reminds me of the opening of Akira!


  • #95
    take everything
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    theguzman wrote: »
    120,000 tonnes of grain lost to a country who has lost their currency and is rapidly turning into a Weimar Republic is not good news.

    God help them.
    Terrible stuff.


  • #96
    Cheerful Spring2
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    Ten of Swords wrote: »
    Halifax explosion in 1917 was estimated at 2.9 kilo tons and practically flattened the entire city. As bad as this explosion looks thankfully it doesn't appear to be anywhere near that scale.

    Will be a few days before the extent of casualties are known

    Early readings, subject to change.

    https://twitter.com/nktpnd/status/1290724023375220736


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  • #97
    cj maxx
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    Is 4.5M. 4 1/2 megatons or what does it mean exactly?


  • #98
    Witcher
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    cj maxx wrote: »
    Is 4.5M. 4 1/2 megatons or what does it mean exactly?

    Magnitude


  • #99
    Jeff2
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    That's some building beside where it happened.

    If the building wasn't there then even more damage would have been done.


  • #100
    Itssoeasy
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    The videos are unreal. The few I've seen are from balconies and when the massive explosion happens you can the roofs of the buildings between the explosion and the balcony lift with the power of the explosion.


  • #101
    igCorcaigh
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    Ten of Swords wrote: »
    Halifax explosion in 1917 was estimated at 2.9 kilo tons and practically flattened the entire city. As bad as this explosion looks thankfully it doesn't appear to be anywhere near that scale.

    Will be a few days before the extent of casualties are known

    Yeah, that was enormous.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThLloZOTBKo


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