Large Explosion in Beirut

o1s1n

Gatling wrote: »

What's in the blue squiggle ???

Kind of looks like a bird flying by in the foreground and someone's probably trying to say it's some kind of missile going in.

wandererz

o1s1n wrote: »

Kind of looks like a bird flying by in the foreground and someone's probably trying to say it's some kind of missile going in.

Yup.
Conspiracy theorists

BorneTobyWilde

Beirut is such a nice place, and the people are super cool there.

BorneTobyWilde

BorneTobyWilde wrote: »

Beirut is such a nice place, and the people are super cool there.

They had enough to be concerned about without this.

SeaBreezes

https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1290744360015929350

screamer

Holy **** it’s like a doomsday event. Whatever gods they believe in, I hope they help them. Scary scary stuff for them to go through.

prinzeugen

Apparently it was 2750 tons of Ammonium Nitrate stored in a warehouse next to a fireworks factory.

That's an explosion with about 25% of the power of the bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima.

Sep 13: a vessel with 2,750 tons of Ammonium Nitrate entered the Beirut port.

Oct 15: "the port authorities discharged the cargo onto the port’s warehouses. The vessel and cargo remain to date in port awaiting auctioning and/or proper disposal." https://t.co/TNLeRvMkXP

ChikiChiki

SeaBreezes wrote: »

https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1290744360015929350

Heartbreaking utterly shocking. Those last few hours could have been so critical for the survivors and rescuers.

screamer

ChikiChiki wrote: »

Heartbreaking utterly shocking. Those last few hours could have been so critical for the survivors and rescuers.

Us embassy earlier warned people to stay inside due to toxic gas, perhaps that’s the threat to people now being urged to leave. Awful situation.

Widdensushi

screamer wrote: »

Us embassy earlier warned people to stay inside due to toxic gas, perhaps that’s the threat to people now being urged to leave. Awful situation.

Presume covid masks would be effective? Maybe not all though?

Gatling

prinzeugen wrote: »

Apparently it was 2750 tons of Ammonium Nitrate stored in a warehouse next to a fireworks factory.

That's an explosion with about 25% of the power of the bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima.

Sep 13: a vessel with 2,750 tons of Ammonium Nitrate entered the Beirut port.

Oct 15: "the port authorities discharged the cargo onto the port’s warehouses. The vessel and cargo remain to date in port awaiting auctioning and/or proper disposal." https://t.co/TNLeRvMkXP

Holy **** talking about 3 things that could bring an apocalyptic outcome ,a fire , god only knows many tons of fireworks , sitting close to 2700+ tons of ammonia nitrate

Signore Fancy Pants

There's also quite a few Irish working/living in that area of Beirut. It's full of internationals, not just Lebanese.

Polar101

Shocking videos with the blast wave.

Looks similar to the Russian ammo dump explosion last year, but that one was in the middle of nowhere, so all the videos were taken much further away.

dere34

Signore Fancy Pants wrote: »

There's also quite a few Irish working/living in that area of Beirut. It's full of internationals, not just Lebanese.

Yes I was told by a friend who was there on peacekeeping that it was a very laidback and friendly city.

It was once known as the party capital of the Arabic ME.

Signore Fancy Pants

dere34 wrote: »

Yes I was told by a friend who was there on peacekeeping that it was a very laidback and friendly city.

It was once known as the party capital of the Arabic ME.

Yeah some parts are nice enough, the people are generally lovely.

Jesus some of the areas I know well are absolutely fcuked. It's horrendous, the final death toll is going to be large and its doubtful to be complete.

prinzeugen

prinzeugen wrote: »

Apparently it was 2750 tons of Ammonium Nitrate stored in a warehouse next to a fireworks factory.

That's an explosion with about 25% of the power of the bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima.

Sep 13: a vessel with 2,750 tons of Ammonium Nitrate entered the Beirut port.

Oct 15: "the port authorities discharged the cargo onto the port’s warehouses. The vessel and cargo remain to date in port awaiting auctioning and/or proper disposal." https://t.co/TNLeRvMkXP[/

story from 2014, the same boat ..so has it been there with all that stuff onboard since 2014?

https://www.fleetmon.com/maritime-news/2014/4194/crew-kept-hostages-floating-bomb-mv-rhosus-beirut/

JupiterKid

My God, that was an absolutely colossal explosion.

Looking at the footage, it seems that there was an initial explosion and fire, and then the mega explosion that looked liked a mini nuclear strike.

The entire centre of Beirut must be completely destroyed. The death toll will be immense. All this in a city that has endured decades of violence and destruction.


RIP to the victims.

prinzeugen

Jake1 wrote: »

prinzeugen wrote: »

Apparently it was 2750 tons of Ammonium Nitrate stored in a warehouse next to a fireworks factory.

That's an explosion with about 25% of the power of the bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima.

Sep 13: a vessel with 2,750 tons of Ammonium Nitrate entered the Beirut port.

Oct 15: "the port authorities discharged the cargo onto the port’s warehouses. The vessel and cargo remain to date in port awaiting auctioning and/or proper disposal." https://t.co/TNLeRvMkXP[/

story from 2014, the same boat ..so has it been there with all that stuff onboard since 2014?

https://www.fleetmon.com/maritime-news/2014/4194/crew-kept-hostages-floating-bomb-mv-rhosus-beirut/

It was just mentioned on News Night. Yup it's been there since 2014.

Apparently Ammonium Nitrate becomes extremely unstable with time.

cnocbui

I can't understand how this video exists (the close up one):

https://twitter.com/RT_com/status/1290685133486534659

BorneTobyWilde

Trump said it was an attack, a bomb of some kind ?

Timistry

BorneTobyWilde wrote: »

Trump said it was an attack, a bomb of some kind ?

Trump is not a reliable source for anything, not even the day of the week

ChikiChiki

BorneTobyWilde wrote: »

Trump said it was an attack, a bomb of some kind ?

That bumbling fool. Probably sees it as a perfect opportunity to distract from the domestic turmoil.

shaveAbullock

cnocbui wrote: »

I can't understand how this video exists (the close up one):

https://twitter.com/RT_com/status/1290685133486534659

I believe that was just a minor blast before the large one so that would explain it.

Effects

BorneTobyWilde wrote: »

Trump said it was an attack, a bomb of some kind ?

What the fück would he know?

prinzeugen

BorneTobyWilde wrote: »

Trump said it was an attack, a bomb of some kind ?

Trump is to busy on Twitter. 3 tons of fertiliser going up would look a bomb going off. They are both explosions.

Jeff2

cnocbui wrote: »

I can't understand how this video exists (the close up one):

The guy probably streamed it live.

Idbatterim

Its blantantly not a bloody nuke. Ive watched several outrageous explosion videos on youttube like this before , search them yourselves... the chinese firework factory one is like this...

cnocbui

shaveAbullock wrote: »

I believe that was just a minor blast before the large one so that would explain it.

Do go on. How does that explain it?

shaveAbullock

prinzeugen wrote: »

Trump is to busy on Twitter. 3 tons of fertiliser going up would look a bomb going off. They are both explosions.

fertiliser.....
Hmm perhaps Israel somehow recruited some old school provos, it's the last thing anyone would expect.

shaveAbullock

cnocbui wrote: »

Do go on. How does that explain it.

You see the blast was not big enough to kill the recording device so it continued to stream to the internet.