Beirut explosion: footage shows
massive blast – video
Guardian [U.K.],
by
Staff
Original Article
Posted By: IowaDad,
8/4/2020 1:26:42 PM
Video circulating on social media shows a massive explosion rocking central Beirut - shattering windows, knocking down doors and shaking buildings several hundred feet away.
Lebanon’s health minister told journalists a ship carrying fireworks had blown up in the port, though the size of the blast heard across the country raised suspicions it might have resulted from a rocket strike or detonation of explosives - deliberate or otherwise. The source of the blast has not been confirmed
Looks to be a secondary explosion after a fire.
Given the ship, I’d suspect fertilizer— ammonium nitrate. But a high explosive stockpile would do this, too. I just can’t believe people would store that much explosive in a manner it could blow up like this.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
MindMadeUp 8/4/2020 1:59:54 PM (No. 499760)
Holy Moses! That is one big bang.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
MindMadeUp 8/4/2020 2:02:48 PM (No. 499763)
"...shattering windows, knocking down doors and shaking buildings " That has to be the understatement of the decade...lol
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 8/4/2020 2:03:15 PM (No. 499766)
Yeah, either munitions or stockpiled ANFO. Wow, what an image. If there are reports of a strong ammonia fume in the air following the explosion, then it was ammonium nitrate fuel oil (ANFO), an explosive. The mining company I worked for used lots of it. Without the fuel oil having been added, the ammonium nitrate in the prill form alone doesn't detonate on its own. Agree that there was a large fire that preceded the blast. But, something else initiated the blast.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
hershey 8/4/2020 2:33:20 PM (No. 499790)
Holy Cow! Are we sure it isn't Nagsaki during the 2nd WW??? That looks almost nuclear with the mushroom...
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Dreadnought 8/4/2020 2:33:58 PM (No. 499791)
Those docks are under the control of Hezbollah.
There were definitely two explosions, the first being the suspected (claimed) fireworks and the second the detonation that leveled the surrounding area. There was no orange smoke during the initial fire which would have indicated nitrogen dioxide. That second detonation was huge but did not seem to be on the order of the Grandcamp during the 1947 Texas City disaster.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
DVC 8/4/2020 2:35:32 PM (No. 499792)
The 'religion of peace' is literally hell on earth.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
HPmatt 8/4/2020 3:16:17 PM (No. 499839)
Hezbollah lost a shipload of munitions bound for attacking Israel is my bet.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
ramona 8/4/2020 3:25:31 PM (No. 499856)
Stop it with all this needless speculation - it was destined for a wedding party!!
Ramona (the Pest)
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
RuckusTom 8/4/2020 3:26:08 PM (No. 499857)
Wow. That was a big fire cracker.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Omen55 8/4/2020 3:30:05 PM (No. 499861)
It's Trump's fault!!
Got it in 1st!
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
snowoutlaw 8/4/2020 3:35:24 PM (No. 499867)
Fireworks? Man they sure know how to party.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Grounded 8/4/2020 3:49:10 PM (No. 499881)
Were those Hillary's 2016 victory celebration fireworks? I wondered what became of them.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Hermit_Crab 8/4/2020 4:51:11 PM (No. 499920)
Wow!.
Hopefully this won't be as bad as the Galveston Bay disaster in 1947.
Who has it in for Lebanon these days?
Maybe it wasn't an accident?
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Hermit_Crab 8/4/2020 5:04:03 PM (No. 499937)
Now the theory is that it was a Hezbolla munitions dump, and maybe taken out by Israel...
I knew that Hezbolla was very active in Lebanon, but didn't realize that there was still a technical state of war between Israel and Lebanon.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Miss Daisy 8/4/2020 6:46:24 PM (No. 500040)
I live in Cyprus, about 100 miles away across the Mediterranean Sea, and we heard it here. It sounded like a sonic boom. It rattled doors and windows here.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 8/4/2020 8:02:36 PM (No. 500095)
Latest report - 70 killed and about 3,000 injured. Everybody must have gotten their eardrums busted. The medical system is overwhelmed beyond belief. If you can still walk, they send you home.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Mushroom 8/4/2020 8:11:41 PM (No. 500105)
Israel has disclaimed the blast, and frankly, I believe them. Here in the Midwest we need to be concerned about grain silos creating conditions for an explosion with just a spark.
I would suspect this was more along those lines. Nitrate or grain regardless they need something to send them off. WHAT was the fire/fireworks proceeding the big show?
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
WV.Hillbilly 8/4/2020 9:10:47 PM (No. 500150)
2750 tons of ammonium nitrate.
How is it that numerous different people are all focused on one place in Beirut and shooting video all at the same time?
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I feel very sad for the innocent people who were affected, but I feel no sympathy for a country that encourages war against Israel and hides dangerous weapons among its people.
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Biggest explosion ever seen in videos outside nuclear test. Looks like thousands of tons of high explosive. Could be ship full of fertilizer or munitions. Nuttin' good about this