Explosions in Beirut

[George K]

[Aqua Letifer]

Holy. Shit.

[jon-nyc]

Saw that this morning. Crazy.

[89th]

Holy shit. I had NO idea what was about to happen in the video. At first I was thinking "Eh, looks like a fireworks factory on fire or something, and then..."

[jon-nyc]

[89th]

For the Family Guy fans, my first reaction was "Woah. Did anyone else feel that?"

[89th]

I heard it was a fireworks truck parked next to an ammonium nitrate storage tank?

[Horace]

@89th said in Explosions in Beirut:

I heard it was a fireworks truck parked next to an ammonium nitrate storage tank?

With roadrunner bait leading up to it.

[Catseye3]

@Horace said in Explosions in Beirut:

With roadrunner bait leading up to it.

LOL.

[89th]

Someone near that dock 1 second before the blast, “Could 2020 get any worse?”

[George K]

Windows were blown out of buildings 10 KILOMETERS away.

[Catseye3]

Fox: "The health minister said at least 50 people were killed and over 2,700 were injured."

[89th]

It was heard from 180 miles away, north of Cyprus

[Klaus]

I don't know how accurate these calculations are, but somebody estimated that the blast of the supposed 2700 tons of ammonium nitrate correspond to around 1 kiloton of TNT. Hiroshima was around 16 kilotons. More modern atomic bombs can easily exceed 20 megatons. If one kiloton does this, I'd really prefer to not be anywhere near an exploding atomic bomb (ok, not a very surprising thought, but that blast gives you an appreciation of what a megaton TNT must be like.

[Jolly]

You know, sometimes it's best to put the cell phone down...

[taiwan_girl]

Wow!!!

[89th]

@Klaus said in Explosions in Beirut:

I don't know how accurate these calculations are, but somebody estimated that the blast of the supposed 2700 tons of ammonium nitrate correspond to around 1 kiloton of TNT. Hiroshima was around 16 kilotons. More modern atomic bombs can easily exceed 20 megatons. If one kiloton does this, I'd really prefer to not be anywhere near an exploding atomic bomb (ok, not a very surprising thought, but that blast gives you an appreciation of what a megaton TNT must be like.

No kidding! Here’s some quick stats, I think are accurate in terms of yield TNT (in tons) equivalent:

• MOAB (our largest non-nuke) = 11
• Beirut = 1,000
• Hiroshima = 16,000
• Current nukes = 600,000 to 2,200,000
• Larry’s head if Biden wins = 14,000,000
• Mt St Helens = 26,000,000
• Tsar Bomb = 50,000,000

[taiwan_girl]

@89th said in Explosions in Beirut:

Larry’s head if Biden wins = 14,000,000

Too funny

[89th]

https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/i3sxwq/a_compilation_of_videos_showing_the_explosion_in/

Many videos coming out, this is a compilation.

[89th]

https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/i3ps5j/im_surprised_it_was_that_loud_after_all_that/

And this one. Look how loud it is, even if you’re “30 seconds away”. (Many miles)