Massive explosion a Beirut port

[Onkel Neal]

Wow, crazy!

https://www.foxnews.com/world/explos...capital-beirut

The 2nd video is extraordinary, before the camera pulls away it looks like a shock wave blowing everything straight up. It's the video captioned "Stunning video shows explosions just minutes ago at Beirut port".

Video taken by residents showed a fire raging at the port, sending up a giant column of smoke, illuminated by flashes of what appear to be fireworks. Local TV stations reported that a fireworks warehouse was involved.

The fire then appeared to catch at a nearby building, triggering a more massive explosion, sending up a mushroom cloud and a shock wave.

Yeah, there a lot of lights and sparkles in the base of the cloud before the explosion.

[mapuc]

Don't want to be the one who is spoiling a good thread

https://www.subsim.com/radioroom/sho...20#post2687120

Markus

[Gerald]

Originally Posted by Onkel Neal

Wow, crazy!

https://www.foxnews.com/world/explos...capital-beirut

The 2nd video is extraordinary, before the camera pulls away it looks like a shock wave blowing everything straight up. It's the video captioned "Stunning video shows explosions just minutes ago at Beirut port".



Yeah, there a lot of lights and sparkles in the base of the cloud before the explosion.

A new explosion in the same area ....

[Buddahaid]

Currently believed to be 2700 tons of ammonium nitrate improperly stored in a warehouse offloaded six years ago from an impounded ship. Who started the fire that found the warehouse?

[Gerald]

Originally Posted by Buddahaid

Currently believed to be 2700 tons of ammonium nitrate improperly stored in a warehouse offloaded six years ago from an impounded ship. Who started the fire that found the warehouse?

No kidding? 2700 tons of ammonium nitrate...this is huge.

[Buddahaid]

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-53659282

[Gerald]

Originally Posted by Buddahaid

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-53659282

Thank you! As you say ... how could this happen, someone has obviously had an intent.

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Vendor

Thank you! As you say ... how could this happen, someone has obviously had an intent.

Not necessarily, ammonium nitrate storage sites or factories sometimes blow up here and there again and again, due to unsafe security rules, accidents. A couple fo years ago in China. Two or threee times in Africa in the past 20 years. 1921 in a factory in Germany, history books say that back then windows up to 15 km away bursted. Ir surely is a big Booom.



There was an earlier fire in a nearby place that stored or produced fireworks. From there the fire may have ingited the A.N. , which in itself is not so easily to ignite, they say.



If there was intention, then the intention to not store it away safely, but leaving it there for so long time. Question also may be why such an ammount was stored. Was it really only agricultural need? It gets rumoured that maybe "religious" groups held the ownership rights and kept it for times of war, to produce explosives. If that is true I would not even rule out that the Mossad may be behind this. But that is a very thin theory only, i currently give it no reasonable credit. For the time beign I go with the explanation of a fire jumping over to the storage site and then blowing it up, accidentally.



But in this part of the world you have to expect everything, and nothing is as it seems.

[Jimbuna]

Rescuers are searching for survivors after a huge explosion in Beirut's port area on Tuesday.

At least 100 people are known to have died in the blast, which injured thousands more.

It was caused by 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate stored unsafely in a warehouse, Lebanon's president says.

The port appears to have been entirely destroyed, while buildings across the city sustained damage.

Up to 300,000 people have been left homeless, Beirut's governor says.

Three days of mourning have been declared in the country, already suffering from an economic crisis and the pandemic.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/worl...-east-53664184