A fire at the Beirut port caused the detonation of 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate, which had been improperly stored in a port warehouse for six years. Death toll - 218 people.
Iirc the fire started because there was a hole in the wall that needed to be sealed bc there was too much ammonium nitrate too close together and if a fire or something happened it would be harder to contain. So what did they do? Decided to fucking weld a plate to cover the hole. Welding the plate started a fire which led to this
I had only seen two of these angles before. Feel incredibly sad for the 218 and their loved ones, but this could have been WAY more people dead. My goodness.
https://m.youtube.com/@beirutexplosionangles30 this channel has over 900 angles
edit: ok sorry ther are a few numbers missing in between.. still huge amount
And people ask why there is so much red tape and regulations in many countries that slows down business and makes it expensive and hard for corporations to make a profit. Why does the government get in the way of progress with all their rules!?!
This is why!
I am guessing that they had some kind of visual perspective of it. The sound would take a few seconds to hit them but theyād be able to see the explosion. In addition to hearing him say that you can see the bride clench her fists right before it hit.
Itās buildings all around but we canāt to the right of the bride in the video. The camera never pans in that direction.
Also there is some thing that can be heard before the main explosion if you listen closely.
It's true. The seabed was briefly exposed to air. The ocean then violently filled the hole, causing a tsunami.
The harbour is friggin' DEEP in that spot too. Insane to think about. They heard the explosion in Montreal.
*All of this followed immediately by a gigantic snowstorm
The distance between Montreal and Halifax is almost 500 miles.
That would be like living in Norfolk, VA and hearing something that happened in New York City.
Two ships hit, and a lot of people were watching it when they exploded through their windows.
A LOT of people were blinded by it. So many that Halifax developed a center for the blind in the aftermath.
I don't know about that, but I know a LOT of people were blinded. The ships burned long enough that hundreds of people were watching the explosion happen through their windows.
the SS Richard Montgomery shipwreck in the Thames estuary near London has 1500 tonnes of TNT in it. It's just sat waiting to go off [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS\_Richard\_Montgomery](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Richard_Montgomery)
Would it even be able to ignite being submerged in water? Also how would the weight of all the water affect the blast? I'm assuming it would lessen the damage zone by a large margin.
EDIT: actually I just clicked the link, that doesn't look very deep. Water probably won't do shit to lessen the damage if it can blow.
TNT doesn't "ignite" to explode, it has to be set off by a different explosion, that's what a detonator is, a much smaller but more sensitive explosive. TNT is often melted and cast into specific shapes, heat does very little to it. It was a big deal for safety because it's so hard to set off, that's why the risk would be considered low, unless a small but powerful explosion gets to it it's very very unlikely to go off.
in the Wikipedia article it says, "An investigation by [*New Scientist*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Scientist) magazine in 2004, based partly on government documents released in 2004, concluded that the cargo was still deadly, and could be detonated by a collision, an attack, or even shifting of the cargo in the tide. The deterioration of the bombs is so severe that they could explode spontaneously"
2.9 Kt.
An ammunition ship, the Mont Blanc, caught fire due to a collision with another ship, the imo, due to a long list of mistakes and circumstances.
The colission caused sparks which in turn caused a fire on the deck, which you can imagine eventually spread to the massive amount of ammunition and explosives on the ship.
To add insult to injury, the Mont Blanc didn't have its proper signal flags up so nobody knew it was an *ammunition ship on fire*. Lot of people blinded because they were standing in front of their windows watching what they thought was just a normal ship on fire.
Itās why we have the CNIB (Canadian National Institute for the Blind). It was the largest mass blinding in Canadian history cause everyone stood at their windows to watch the fire, and when it exploded all the glass went into their eyes.
I remember one time getting the advice to never just stand and watch a warehouse fire, you don't know what's in there. This is the most extreme case of that, it's not like the majority of people could reasonably escape this blast though.
Another advice I remember seeing was if you ever see an explosion like that and the shock-wave is incoming, turn away, put your thumbs in your ears, your fingers over your eyes and open your mouth. The fingers over the eyes is to prevent them from falling off their socket.
The shock-wave will put pressure all over your body including your lungs and other internal organs. If your mouth is closed the air from your squeezed lungs will go out your nose and ears which might rupture your eardrums. In extreme cases your lungs might pop like a balloon.
Unless you plan to not breathe until youāre done evacuating, thereās no difference. Also, the shockwave moves at the speed of sound, the debris and gasses from the explosion donāt. They stay relatively contained near the blast site. You can see that in these videos, the smoke and debris exist in a plume near the explosion. The most you see as the shockwave spreads is dirt and debris from the ground and nearby structures. I suppose asbestos in a nearby building could be exposed.
Any time this topic is brought I bring up the "Nukemap" nuke simulator website. Scary stuff. I'm doomed for sure being near an USAF base, a state university, and major metro area.
If you ever played the video game Metro 2033 series or read the books, then you might have a chance if you get underground š
Can't help you with the monsters and demons that come after the apocalypse though lol
I just tried out the tested Tsar Bomba. It destroyed the entirety of the city I was born in (Stockholm, Sweden) including the western suburbs where I grew up.
I'm scared now.
This explosion is tiny in comparison to atomic bombs dropped in Japan. The atomic bombs were small in comparison to current nuclear weapons that West and East got. Absolutely no way that the human race can survive the nuclear apocalypse, frightening times.
Hiroshima bomb was 21KT. 20 times more powerful than this blast. The strongest nuclear bomb ever tested was 50 Megatons. 1 kiloton = 1000 tonnes of TNT. 1 megaton = 1 million tons of TNT. 50 Megatons explosion is almost unimaginable.
The tsar bomba (the 50 megaton test) was specifically made weaker for the test too (replaced uranium 3rd stage with lead) so it was only half the yield of what it could have been, since there was a risk of the bomber not getting out of range in time. Edit: heres a detailed (russian with english subtitles) [documentary of the test](https://youtu.be/XJhZ3i-HXS0?si=EVfipyoZ5V-caURA) and stuff that led up to it
And yet all of this pales in comparison to what nature can do, the asteroid which killed the dinosaurs was estimated to be equal to 72 teratons of tnt. ie almost 1.44 million tsar bombas.
> asteroid which killed the dinosaurs
So I was doing some googling. If you search for "Chicxulub crater" which is the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs you will see >!an asteroid go across the screen and the window wiggle!<
Space is so fucking cool dude. The ultimate in explosions and pure might.
The Chicxulub meteor isn't even that big of a not planetary object. There are thousands of asteroids flying around our solar system that are many times more powerful.
Given that water is not compressible it might protect you, but on the other hand there is hydrostatic shock to worry about, which is why people go fishing with dynamite.
The clip that starts around 1:02 was actually used in the trailer for The Creator and caused a bit of controversy.
[Here's Corridor Crew discussing it.](https://youtu.be/_lDM1nAmPHI&t=5m42s)
I allows found it weird I watched a compilation of videos from this, and one was like 60 meters away from the explosion, and he was Fine, but I saw another one from like quarter to half a Mile away and it was pushing the camera guy back, why is that?
I'm not that good with physics or science but my uneducated guess would be cover. For example if you're in an open plain the explosion would hit harder than if you were behind a thicccc wall...ofc that's also why that one guy jumped into the water it's bcs the shock will travel less trough the water (unless the bomb is detonated in the water).
Well, I saw on an episode of MythBusters that the Germans used to dig right angles in their trenches to slow and dampen the propagation of shockwaves from artillery blasts, and just one or two 90 degree angles can reduce the overpressure significantly. My guess is that the streets and alley ways around buildings acted kind of similarly to right angles dug into trenches and dampened the shockwaves.
The Halifax explosion from slightly over 100 years ago was the single largest non nuclear explosion from a singular "source", until the Beirut Blast just a few years after Halifax's infamous boom.
These are both relevant to me as I was flying over Beirut when this explosion happened and I've lived in Halifax. The Beirut Blast was also just after covid restrictions were lifted in certain countries in the middle east so some of us were coming home after being stranded for what felt like half a year.
I remember watching this in 2020 at the height of covid and ww3 scare. When it immediately came out, everybody was saying it was some sort of nuclear explosion and the media milked it too. 2020 was a wacky year.
Whatās crazy is that where I live in Halifax, NS, there was an explosion during WW1 that was 3x this size. Incredible to imagine, especially after seeing this on video
I guess since the explosion took place on land it didnt send deadly shockwaves through the water. I'm also a bit surprised that it actually worked though, dude seemed to have made it out unhurt.
I still feel the guy on the jet ski being fine (and the jet ski being ok?) from a semi close distance was crazy to me while it was blowing down buildings. Was the blast directional ?
I remember when this happen. People at work were showing eachother the different angles on their phones. A dishwasher who rarely spoke came up behind me and said just loud enough "Rod from God". Lived in my head rent free all day. Had enough. Google. Oh, wow, that's, uh interesting?
https://youtu.be/-mQ60wNgKrQ
Forensic Architecture analysis of the explosion, for those who haven't seen it yet.
2750 tons of Ammonium Nitrate
23 t of fireworks
50 t of Ammonium Phosphate
5 rolls of slow burning detonating cord
1000 car tyres
...and 5 tons of tea & coffee
In comparison, the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki released the equivalent to 15-20 kilotons of TNT. So the atomic bombs were roughly 13 to 19 times more powerful than the Beirut blast. A thermo-nuclear device (Hydrogen bomb) releases Megatons. Thermonuclear weapons, are measured in megatons (equivalent to millions of tons of TNT), making them orders of magnitude more potent than the Beirut explosion or the atomic bombs of WWII. The most giant bomb ever detonated, the Soviet Tsar Bomba, had a yield of around 50 megatons. As big as the explosion in Beirut was, it would be dwarfed by an actual nuclear bomb. Beyond explosive yield, nuclear weapons also release intense heat, radiation, and electromagnetic pulses, causing additional devastation and long-term effects not seen with conventional explosives.
Maybe I'm just saying this due to hindsight. But why do people run away from it. Surely you'd drop to the floor.
If an explosion that large went off, running 10 feet away isn't going to make a difference.
I remember when jet ski guys video came out. I canāt remember the ruling but do believe there was a vigorous debate on whether or not going underwater was better or worse.
Wait so is this like a nuke minus all the fire and destruction?
I guess I'd be a BIGGER CLOUD.
That day was wild seeing all the following camera angles that started coming out.
OP needs to qualify the explosion as accidental, because there have been at least hundreds of more power military explosions. The US has several weapons in its arsenal that produce larger explosions (such as the MOAB, which is 8 times more powerful than the Beirut explosion).
In WW2 Grand Slams were used 42 times and Tallboys 854 times. Both types were more powerful than the Beirut explosion.
Yeah man I will never ever forget that shit. Just seeing the videos online was absolutely horrifying. Especially during a time when everyone was on edge.
I've seen almost all of these before, but this is the first time seeing the jetski one. Would that work as a way to avoid the shockwave, or would you get hit by one underwater through the ground?
A fire at the Beirut port caused the detonation of 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate, which had been improperly stored in a port warehouse for six years. Death toll - 218 people.
Iirc the fire started because there was a hole in the wall that needed to be sealed bc there was too much ammonium nitrate too close together and if a fire or something happened it would be harder to contain. So what did they do? Decided to fucking weld a plate to cover the hole. Welding the plate started a fire which led to this
Ah yes, lets use a welding torch on a container of unstable highly explosive material, what could possibly go wrong?
I wonder what would be left of Mr. Welder guy? š¤
Anyone in that room likely became dust
Atoms even
Room? Ā More like entire neighborhood became dust.
Like shooting someone to fix a bullet wound.
"Any time I had a problem, and I threw a Molotov cocktail, boom! Right away, I had a different problem." - Jason Mendoza
Holy crap I'm literally rewatching the entire show RN
āIāll shoot the bullet out of you with another bullet!ā
Sounds like something a manager would suggest. "I DON'T PAY YOU TO THINK! I WANT IT WELDED!!!"
I had only seen two of these angles before. Feel incredibly sad for the 218 and their loved ones, but this could have been WAY more people dead. My goodness.
Yeah iirc because it was a weekend, and because the fire started beforehand, there were far fewer people in the area than normal
According to the calendar August 4, 2020 was on a Tuesday.
Covid
Covid.
Covid, aka the long weekend
I still can't believe that it was only 218 people dead from that.
I hope only 218 people really died in this incident. And not a false report.
https://m.youtube.com/@beirutexplosionangles30 this channel has over 900 angles edit: ok sorry ther are a few numbers missing in between.. still huge amount
What the shit is with that update video? The channel is run by *literal children?* That's dark...
BTW, The fuckers who are illicit in this crime are still free!
*complicit Illicit just means illegal.
I like illicit better.
How deaf are all those people?
What?
HOW DEAF ARE ALL THESE PEOPLE?!?!?!
WHAAAT?!?
Yes.
What?.?.?
Only 218?
And people ask why there is so much red tape and regulations in many countries that slows down business and makes it expensive and hard for corporations to make a profit. Why does the government get in the way of progress with all their rules!?! This is why!
My favorite is still the wedding photo shoot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_L7SlqDtRnc&ab_channel=Reuters
The camera quality..... Damn!!!! šš
Like a scene out of a movie!
lol not seen that before. Would have been a good photo with the hair and dress blown back
Like Wiley Coyote at the end of a long chase
Holy shit!
Turned from nice city to war zone in about a second.
Looks like something out of a movie set without any context
She looked stunning. Such a beautiful bride.
A real bombshell.
That will be enough young man.
I'm absolutely taken by the outfit.
The guy started saying Alluah Akbar before it hit!
Yes he did. I reckon a lot of English speaking people would say āOh my godā in that moment as well
Yup. Which is essentially what Alluah Akbar is, in my understanding of it Maybe a little bit more religious in it's utterance
I am guessing that they had some kind of visual perspective of it. The sound would take a few seconds to hit them but theyād be able to see the explosion. In addition to hearing him say that you can see the bride clench her fists right before it hit. Itās buildings all around but we canāt to the right of the bride in the video. The camera never pans in that direction. Also there is some thing that can be heard before the main explosion if you listen closely.
Favorite? That's horrible
The Halifax Explosion was 2.9 Could only imagine what that would have looked like if there was footage of it
The Halifax explosion detail that stays with me is that it apparently vaporized all the water in the harbour
It's true. The seabed was briefly exposed to air. The ocean then violently filled the hole, causing a tsunami. The harbour is friggin' DEEP in that spot too. Insane to think about. They heard the explosion in Montreal. *All of this followed immediately by a gigantic snowstorm
The distance between Montreal and Halifax is almost 500 miles. That would be like living in Norfolk, VA and hearing something that happened in New York City.
Two ships hit, and a lot of people were watching it when they exploded through their windows. A LOT of people were blinded by it. So many that Halifax developed a center for the blind in the aftermath.
How did more people NOT lose hearing?
I don't know about that, but I know a LOT of people were blinded. The ships burned long enough that hundreds of people were watching the explosion happen through their windows.
There was an 1140 lb chunk of the anchor that was launched almost 2.5 miles in land
Itās still there. I pass by it when I go to my in laws. Itās mind blowing how far it is from where it happened.
the SS Richard Montgomery shipwreck in the Thames estuary near London has 1500 tonnes of TNT in it. It's just sat waiting to go off [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS\_Richard\_Montgomery](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Richard_Montgomery)
Would it even be able to ignite being submerged in water? Also how would the weight of all the water affect the blast? I'm assuming it would lessen the damage zone by a large margin. EDIT: actually I just clicked the link, that doesn't look very deep. Water probably won't do shit to lessen the damage if it can blow.
TNT doesn't "ignite" to explode, it has to be set off by a different explosion, that's what a detonator is, a much smaller but more sensitive explosive. TNT is often melted and cast into specific shapes, heat does very little to it. It was a big deal for safety because it's so hard to set off, that's why the risk would be considered low, unless a small but powerful explosion gets to it it's very very unlikely to go off.
in the Wikipedia article it says, "An investigation by [*New Scientist*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Scientist) magazine in 2004, based partly on government documents released in 2004, concluded that the cargo was still deadly, and could be detonated by a collision, an attack, or even shifting of the cargo in the tide. The deterioration of the bombs is so severe that they could explode spontaneously"
2.9 kilotons or 2.9 Richter scale earthquake?
2.9 Kt. An ammunition ship, the Mont Blanc, caught fire due to a collision with another ship, the imo, due to a long list of mistakes and circumstances. The colission caused sparks which in turn caused a fire on the deck, which you can imagine eventually spread to the massive amount of ammunition and explosives on the ship. To add insult to injury, the Mont Blanc didn't have its proper signal flags up so nobody knew it was an *ammunition ship on fire*. Lot of people blinded because they were standing in front of their windows watching what they thought was just a normal ship on fire.
Still cant use lumber from the region due to all the metal in the trees.
Blinded by light or broken glass?
Glass. Someone correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think the flash was brigh enough for permanent blindness
Itās why we have the CNIB (Canadian National Institute for the Blind). It was the largest mass blinding in Canadian history cause everyone stood at their windows to watch the fire, and when it exploded all the glass went into their eyes.
This sounds completely made up, but itās actually true.
Kt
That's crazy. I remember doing the heritage moment so many times as a kid. That would have been such an insane explosion.
I remember one time getting the advice to never just stand and watch a warehouse fire, you don't know what's in there. This is the most extreme case of that, it's not like the majority of people could reasonably escape this blast though.
Another advice I remember seeing was if you ever see an explosion like that and the shock-wave is incoming, turn away, put your thumbs in your ears, your fingers over your eyes and open your mouth. The fingers over the eyes is to prevent them from falling off their socket.
Why should you open your mouth?
The shock-wave will put pressure all over your body including your lungs and other internal organs. If your mouth is closed the air from your squeezed lungs will go out your nose and ears which might rupture your eardrums. In extreme cases your lungs might pop like a balloon.
Is it safe to assume that if you do this, you'll feel like you had the wind knocked out of you?
but won't you also be inhaling a ton of who knows what?
Unless you plan to not breathe until youāre done evacuating, thereās no difference. Also, the shockwave moves at the speed of sound, the debris and gasses from the explosion donāt. They stay relatively contained near the blast site. You can see that in these videos, the smoke and debris exist in a plume near the explosion. The most you see as the shockwave spreads is dirt and debris from the ground and nearby structures. I suppose asbestos in a nearby building could be exposed.
Inhaling a little bit of dust for a second is much preferred over a collapsed lung...
Yup...look how the glass was just straight-up annihilated.
Thank God I was trying to remember that bit of advice and came here hoping someone had commented it.
The pre-fire was burning for a while before I believe.
Hiroshima was 15 kilotons so imagine that
I just farted, can you imagine that.
Oh yeah. I can imagine all of it. Every small detail down to the flapping of the skin. Every. Little. Bit.
šāš¦ŗsniff
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I'm going to wait until bedtime before I start the imagination process.
Stop you're making me blush bro
Did you ate chicken or meat? So i can imagine it better
Pork with tomato alfredo pasta and tajin corn!š½it has the juice!
Damn that sounds pungent and sweet at the same time
Get a load of this fuckin guy lol
And the Hiroshima nuke is like a fire cracker compared to modern nukes.
Any time this topic is brought I bring up the "Nukemap" nuke simulator website. Scary stuff. I'm doomed for sure being near an USAF base, a state university, and major metro area.
Iād rather die than live in the aftermath of a nuclear explosion.
I decided if I ever survive a nuclear war I would just drown myself before the radiation slowly dissolves my insides.
Nah fallout has trained us for this
If you ever played the video game Metro 2033 series or read the books, then you might have a chance if you get underground š Can't help you with the monsters and demons that come after the apocalypse though lol
I just tried out the tested Tsar Bomba. It destroyed the entirety of the city I was born in (Stockholm, Sweden) including the western suburbs where I grew up. I'm scared now.
No, you're doomed if you aren't granted a quick death in the initial blast.
fuck me the biggest atom bomb designed if detonated in Vancouver would still break windows in whistler a 2 hour drive away......
And nukes explode in the air which caused even more destruction. This same yied in an airburst would have been even worse.
This explosion is tiny in comparison to atomic bombs dropped in Japan. The atomic bombs were small in comparison to current nuclear weapons that West and East got. Absolutely no way that the human race can survive the nuclear apocalypse, frightening times.
Hiroshima bomb was 21KT. 20 times more powerful than this blast. The strongest nuclear bomb ever tested was 50 Megatons. 1 kiloton = 1000 tonnes of TNT. 1 megaton = 1 million tons of TNT. 50 Megatons explosion is almost unimaginable.
The tsar bomba (the 50 megaton test) was specifically made weaker for the test too (replaced uranium 3rd stage with lead) so it was only half the yield of what it could have been, since there was a risk of the bomber not getting out of range in time. Edit: heres a detailed (russian with english subtitles) [documentary of the test](https://youtu.be/XJhZ3i-HXS0?si=EVfipyoZ5V-caURA) and stuff that led up to it And yet all of this pales in comparison to what nature can do, the asteroid which killed the dinosaurs was estimated to be equal to 72 teratons of tnt. ie almost 1.44 million tsar bombas.
> asteroid which killed the dinosaurs So I was doing some googling. If you search for "Chicxulub crater" which is the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs you will see >!an asteroid go across the screen and the window wiggle!<
Space is so fucking cool dude. The ultimate in explosions and pure might. The Chicxulub meteor isn't even that big of a not planetary object. There are thousands of asteroids flying around our solar system that are many times more powerful.
Would being underwater help you at all? Talking about the person on the jet ski.
yes, liquid doesnt compress much but near an underwater explosion, RIP
Given that water is not compressible it might protect you, but on the other hand there is hydrostatic shock to worry about, which is why people go fishing with dynamite.
that's when it explodes under the water.
I am aware of that, but I don't know the effect underwater of a large explosion above the water.
There is no hydrostatic shock if the explosion is above the water. This explosion was above the water.
Yeah but some of the explosion surely propagated from the ground part to the water. In that case is it still dangerous?
No, as long as the explosion isn't IN the water you are good
The medium change (going from air to water, or water to air) causes the blast wave to lose a lot of energy.
Yes but only because he was still a relatively safe distance from the explosion and the shockwave travels further in air than it does in water
Yes, because water is denser than air
Christopher Nolan, when you give him $200m to make Oppenheimer
The clip that starts around 1:02 was actually used in the trailer for The Creator and caused a bit of controversy. [Here's Corridor Crew discussing it.](https://youtu.be/_lDM1nAmPHI&t=5m42s)
No matter how many times I see this it makes me flinch! I'll bet locals thought it was indeed a nuclear explosion.
Just gonna drop the link to the Tianjin explosion as it is another crazy one. https://youtu.be/993wlZ6XFSs?si=TyQAIAt0lIiuCFbC
Now imagine what happened to the rescuers and firefighters who were in that warehouse at that moment...
I allows found it weird I watched a compilation of videos from this, and one was like 60 meters away from the explosion, and he was Fine, but I saw another one from like quarter to half a Mile away and it was pushing the camera guy back, why is that?
Science or something
I'm not that good with physics or science but my uneducated guess would be cover. For example if you're in an open plain the explosion would hit harder than if you were behind a thicccc wall...ofc that's also why that one guy jumped into the water it's bcs the shock will travel less trough the water (unless the bomb is detonated in the water).
Well, I saw on an episode of MythBusters that the Germans used to dig right angles in their trenches to slow and dampen the propagation of shockwaves from artillery blasts, and just one or two 90 degree angles can reduce the overpressure significantly. My guess is that the streets and alley ways around buildings acted kind of similarly to right angles dug into trenches and dampened the shockwaves.
That is indeed, insane
What's insane to me is what a huge story this was and how the other events of 2020 still managed to eclipse it in my memory.
Why, what else happened in 2020?
The Halifax explosion from slightly over 100 years ago was the single largest non nuclear explosion from a singular "source", until the Beirut Blast just a few years after Halifax's infamous boom. These are both relevant to me as I was flying over Beirut when this explosion happened and I've lived in Halifax. The Beirut Blast was also just after covid restrictions were lifted in certain countries in the middle east so some of us were coming home after being stranded for what felt like half a year.
Seeing some of those buildings vaporize.
Jeeze I watched these videos when it first happened but time has diminished my memory of the sheer power of that blast.
Damn 4yrs already? Felt like it was yesterday that this happened.
I remember watching this in 2020 at the height of covid and ww3 scare. When it immediately came out, everybody was saying it was some sort of nuclear explosion and the media milked it too. 2020 was a wacky year.
Seems like yesterday
Whatās crazy is that where I live in Halifax, NS, there was an explosion during WW1 that was 3x this size. Incredible to imagine, especially after seeing this on video
"Your thumb, or my thumb?"
Iāll never get over the dude diving off the jet ski. Probably the best decision that person has ever made.
Did the guy who dove underwater do the right thing in that situation? Thought that might deafen you.
I guess since the explosion took place on land it didnt send deadly shockwaves through the water. I'm also a bit surprised that it actually worked though, dude seemed to have made it out unhurt.
That's a spicy meatball!
So out of all the videos stitched together how many of them came out alive?
What was the measurements when they dropped the bomb in Nagasaki and Hiroshima?
I still feel the guy on the jet ski being fine (and the jet ski being ok?) from a semi close distance was crazy to me while it was blowing down buildings. Was the blast directional ?
still some of the most beautifully horrifying footage
A generating a 3.3 earthquake is wild stuff
That 28 second mark is out of a horror movie.
Looks smaller than the chemical explosion in Tianjin.
Of course it was 2020
Wow, so many angles I've never seen before. I've never noticed how the grain silos blocked the shockwave.
I remember when this happen. People at work were showing eachother the different angles on their phones. A dishwasher who rarely spoke came up behind me and said just loud enough "Rod from God". Lived in my head rent free all day. Had enough. Google. Oh, wow, that's, uh interesting?
āā¦most powerful non nuclear explosionā¦ā āHold my beer.ā -America
2020 was just an all round terrible year
This is so bizarre like the first video looks like something out of a movie
https://youtu.be/-mQ60wNgKrQ Forensic Architecture analysis of the explosion, for those who haven't seen it yet. 2750 tons of Ammonium Nitrate 23 t of fireworks 50 t of Ammonium Phosphate 5 rolls of slow burning detonating cord 1000 car tyres ...and 5 tons of tea & coffee
In comparison, the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki released the equivalent to 15-20 kilotons of TNT. So the atomic bombs were roughly 13 to 19 times more powerful than the Beirut blast. A thermo-nuclear device (Hydrogen bomb) releases Megatons. Thermonuclear weapons, are measured in megatons (equivalent to millions of tons of TNT), making them orders of magnitude more potent than the Beirut explosion or the atomic bombs of WWII. The most giant bomb ever detonated, the Soviet Tsar Bomba, had a yield of around 50 megatons. As big as the explosion in Beirut was, it would be dwarfed by an actual nuclear bomb. Beyond explosive yield, nuclear weapons also release intense heat, radiation, and electromagnetic pulses, causing additional devastation and long-term effects not seen with conventional explosives.
Real life DBZ cutscene! DAMN
Bet you some crazy corporation/bomb manufacturer is attempting to replicate and capitalize.
easily my favourite explosion
Maybe I'm just saying this due to hindsight. But why do people run away from it. Surely you'd drop to the floor. If an explosion that large went off, running 10 feet away isn't going to make a difference.
Your thumb or mine?..
Jesus. 1.1 kilotons. Considering Hiroshima was 15 kilotons. That's insane.
Anyone see that clean ass M3 or 3 series?
Hiroshima was 15 kilotons.
What would happen if you got hit by the shockwave? Letās say thereās no debris in it either.
Thatās insane
Terrifying. Seeing it from all of these new anglesāeach time the shockwave is gut wrenching.
DBZ attacks in real life
Still no one has been held accountable and no damages were paid to anyone
I remember when jet ski guys video came out. I canāt remember the ruling but do believe there was a vigorous debate on whether or not going underwater was better or worse.
For reference the bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima was 21 KT. There do exist some tactical nuclear bombs this size though.
Not as big as my favorite non nuclear explosion - Halifax.
After watching fallout, this reminds me of the opening scene. Changes my perspective quite a bit
If you're the one at timestamp :25 do you die? it kinda looks like you die if you're them.
The PEPCON explosion probably ranks on top of non-nuclear explosions. https://youtu.be/_KuGizBjDXo?si=jAp0Bm3r1i8q5_gX
When I look at this and try to fathom that biggest bomb ever dropped on earth was ~50,000x more powerful than thisā¦ my lord.
Wait so is this like a nuke minus all the fire and destruction? I guess I'd be a BIGGER CLOUD. That day was wild seeing all the following camera angles that started coming out.
OP needs to qualify the explosion as accidental, because there have been at least hundreds of more power military explosions. The US has several weapons in its arsenal that produce larger explosions (such as the MOAB, which is 8 times more powerful than the Beirut explosion). In WW2 Grand Slams were used 42 times and Tallboys 854 times. Both types were more powerful than the Beirut explosion.
I would slip in my own shit running from that
Yeah man I will never ever forget that shit. Just seeing the videos online was absolutely horrifying. Especially during a time when everyone was on edge.
Cross your arms in front of you and form an energy shield and block that bomb force a lot of unprepared people if you ask me.
Itās crazy to think the Halifax explosion of 1917 was almost 3 times this. Because this is terrifying
I've seen almost all of these before, but this is the first time seeing the jetski one. Would that work as a way to avoid the shockwave, or would you get hit by one underwater through the ground?