Oh my
Oh my
Don't know how that building next to it remained partially standing.
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Originally Posted by hatcreek
Dang what were the three primary colors in that explosion? Looked like steam, clay and sand?
Prime Minister Hassan Diab said that 2,750 metric tons of ammonium nitrate, which is typically used as an agricultural fertilizer, had been stored for six years at a warehouse in the port of Beirut without safety measures, "endangering the safety of citizens," according to a statement.
left over from an abandoned Russian ship
Looks suspicious to me. But who knows what we will ever really know
What looks suspicious? Ammonium nitrate is commonly used around the world. Similar thing happened in Texas.
fireworks produced the brown and grey smoke.. that reddish stuff though- nitrous dioxide gas NO2.. bad stuff..
Amazing only 100 something deaths....
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If I had to guess it was a munition storage area. A fire started there which ignited some kind of a large bomb. Kind of like the M.O.A.B!
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They're saying it was 2950 tons of ammonium nitrate; I have to believe that would make an explosion that large.
The conversion rate for ammonium nitrate to TNT is like 42%. 2950X.42=1239 tons of explosive material. Crazy. For reference, the MOAB yields about 46T. That's basically the equivelant of 27 MOABS all at once.
Probably have some stronger regulations on how that chicken poop is stored in the future over there.
Timothy McVeigh used 4,000 pounds of ammonium nitrate to blow up the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City in 1995.
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Regulations only work if they are enforced. West, TX suffered a terrible tragedy from a similar explosion only it was a small town and not the port in a crowded city. The company that stored the ammonium nitrate in Texas was not following the rules. This stuff is more powerful than 99.9% of us can imagine.
newsmax said it was felt over 150 miles away , 300,000 buildings and homes damaged or destroyed
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many hundreds missing , possibly thousands missing they said , 5000 treated for injuries so far,
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my wife lost a good friend in 83 bombing , and lost her best friend in the Norfolk Navy Base mass shooting a few years ago, so , she has had 2 very good friends killed in Terroist Attacks , how rare is that
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It only took 2.5 tons to do what those two cowards did in OKC.... Knowing some basic info its not hard to believe. It was a thing waiting to happen.
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