WTF just hit Beirut?

[PaceAdvantage]

https://twitter.com/CalebHowe/status/1290670899969040389

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https://twitter.com/ragipsoylu/status/1290671102344273920

[PaceAdvantage]

https://twitter.com/ragipsoylu/status/1290674714600513537

[jk3521]

https://twitter.com/ragipsoylu/status/1290674714600513537

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-53656220

[PaceAdvantage]

https://twitter.com/VlanciPictures/status/1290669849321119744

[PaceAdvantage]

mini nuke?

https://twitter.com/mhijazi/status/1290675030561566720

[PaceAdvantage]

The video in that last tweet ("Another video of the explosion at Beirut Port") has the highest quality version and view of explosion...****ing terrifying....

[GMB@BP]

The video in that last tweet ("Another video of the explosion at Beirut Port") has the highest quality version and view of explosion...****ing terrifying....

that is amazing, so there was an initial fire or something and what the hell, maybe a weapons cache of some sort blew up.

[GMB@BP]

Wonder if it was a chemical explosion given the red plume after the explosion.

[jay68802]

Seems there are small explosions going off right before the big one. Reminds me of the rocket fuel plant in Utah?? along time ago.

[jay68802]

Three unexplained explosions in Iran, now this.........

[PaceAdvantage]

Probably a gas leak...lulz

[GMB@BP]

Three unexplained explosions in Iran, now this.........

messed up

that looks like it may have killed a lot of people, building were disintegrating a bit there.

[GMB@BP]

I'm thinking it's more like all the pulverized brick and soil and whatnot being sucked up....all that stuff in the immediate area...including that large white building...were instantly VAPORIZED at the moment of the explosion...if you watch it carefully...

Sick...

good point

[Jeff P]

By Tamara Qiblawi and Ben Wedeman, CNN
Updated 12:15 PM ET, Tue August 4, 2020
Beirut explosion shatters windows across Lebanese capital:
https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/04/middleeast/beirut-explosion-port-intl/index.html

Beirut, Lebanon (CNN) A large explosion ripped through the Lebanese capital Beirut on Tuesday, injuring people and smashing windows in buildings across the city.

The source of the explosion was a major fire at a warehouse for firecrackers near the port in Beirut, the state-run National News Agency reported. Local news reported large numbers of wounded people.

Firecrackers?

Am I supposed to believe that? :rolleyes:


-jp

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[GMB@BP]

By Tamara Qiblawi and Ben Wedeman, CNN
Updated 12:15 PM ET, Tue August 4, 2020
Beirut explosion shatters windows across Lebanese capital:
https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/04/middleeast/beirut-explosion-port-intl/index.html



Firecrackers?

Am I supposed to believe that?


-jp

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lol, maybe there was some firecrackers there as a cover story but the rest of the explosion...maybe fireworks is big business in lebanon. who knows.

[PaceAdvantage]

good pointI actually deleted my reply because it looks like from another SUPPOSED video of right before the big bang, you can see a large plume of reddish smoke....but in other videos it looks white...so I'm not sure if all these videos being posted are from the same explosion...

[PaceAdvantage]

One of the videos shows the shock wave hitting a distant observer some 20-30 seconds after the explosion....that's not fireworks...

[PaceAdvantage]

This tweet makes it easier to find that version I spoke about earlier:

https://twitter.com/TomRtweets/status/1290684206390095872

[ElKabong]

Damn....

Nothing on the networks that I can see

[PaceAdvantage]

Somebody was takin' care of some serious business right there...

That's MOAB type damage...bordering on suitcase nuke (whatever those are anyway)...

[GMB@BP]

Damn....

Nothing on the networks that I can see

they are scrambling trying to tie it to trump first

[PaceAdvantage]

they are scrambling trying to tie it to trump firstAll dead will be attributed to COVID-19(84)

[PaceAdvantage]

And BTW, interesting that multiple people seemed to be recording/streaming focused on that specific location? I guess the initial fire or whatever...

But that was a MASSIVE....ONE TIME explosion...not a bunch of different explosions going off (such as with multiple munitions)...

That was ONE THING at the end there...wonder what that one thing was...

[JustRalph]

Incredible video

This is the only thing Twitter is good for...

Some great vids n pics being posted

[JustRalph]

Three unexplained explosions in Iran, now this.........

missiles from space

That Air Force shuttle ain’t up there for kicks n giggles

[PaceAdvantage]

Nuke confirmed.... j/k?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vVIf0HkqHU

[PaceAdvantage]

Aftermath:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bss7qJQ8xt4

[JustRalph]

Nuke confirmed.... j/k?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vVIf0HkqHU

If it’s a nuke we should see people in the streets throwing up etc

Watch for those vids

[xtb]

Nuke confirmed.... j/k?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vVIf0HkqHU

It does look like a nuke but the mushroom cloud dissipated very quickly. Could it be from the sonic boom? When aircraft break the sound barrier, there is a similar cloud that appears briefly.

[Jeff P]

Years ago I recall reading if you happen to be looking directly at a traditional nuke when it goes off the flash is bright enough to blind you (permanently.)

Also, the shockwave from a traditional nuke carries heat. As in hot enough to burn anything in its path (buildings, cars, people, etc.)

Definitely a serious explosion. But based on the video, I don't think this was a traditional nuke. (Unless it was a really tiny one.)

That said, if it was a nuke, crews on the ground will know once they start measuring for radiation.


-jp

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[RunForTheRoses]

It does look like a nuke but the mushroom cloud dissipated very quickly. Could it be from the sonic boom? When aircraft break the sound barrier, there is a similar cloud that appears briefly.

I'm hearing it hit near water and part of that is a water plume.

[PaceAdvantage]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYg0TR0G834

Fireworks...yeah...and Trump is a russian agent...and COVID-19(84) has a 6% CFR....

[PaceAdvantage]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLOwKTY81y4

[PaceAdvantage]

Talking "tons of nitrate"

[PaceAdvantage]

https://twitter.com/LunaSafwan/status/1290694790204592128

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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/08/04/huge-explosions-rock-central-beirut-citys-hiroshima/

Interesting they invoke Hiroshima.

[JustRalph]

Bunker buster?

[GMB@BP]

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/08/04/huge-explosions-rock-central-beirut-citys-hiroshima/

Interesting they invoke Hiroshima.

they invoke but that looks nothing like the aftermath of a nuclear blast the size of hiroshima or nagasaki

[jay68802]

Fireworks explosion.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuN4xirvhHY

[PaceAdvantage]

they invoke but that looks nothing like the aftermath of a nuclear blast the size of hiroshima or nagasakiObviously, we're talking (theoretically) of a much smaller kiloton yield vs. bombs dropped on Japan in WW2. So of course it wouldn't have the same devastation....

[PaceAdvantage]

Fireworks explosion.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuN4xirvhHYYeah, the fireworks thing has been debunked...

Fireworks don't knock out windows 10km away and flip cars over...

[GMB@BP]

I would by the nitrate explosion and its what I thought of when I saw it in the video. Remember only a small van of sodium nitrate blew up half of a federal building once and this might have been a much bigger cache of chemical.

[GMB@BP]

I would by the nitrate explosion and its what I thought of when I saw it in the video. Remember only a small van of sodium nitrate blew up half of a federal building once and this might have been a much bigger cache of chemical.

sorry, ammonium nitrate.

[PaceAdvantage]

Beirut explosion generated seismic waves equivalent of a magnitude 3.3 earthquake
From CNN's Paul P. Murphy and Judson Jones

Data collected by the United States Geological Survey shows that the massive explosion in Beirut was so powerful, it created seismic waves equivalent of a magnitude 3.3 earthquake.

However, the magnitude 3.3 equivalent isn't, "directly comparable to an earthquake of similar size."

That's because surface type blasts, like the Beirut explosion, don't produce as large a magnitude as an earthquake of similar energy would according to Don Blakeman, a geophysicist at the National Earthquake Information Center. Blakeman said most of the energy goes into the air and buildings.

"Not enough of the energy is transmitted into the rocks in the ground," he said.

Meaning, if the explosion had occurred below the surface of the earth, the magnitude would have registered even higher.https://www.cnn.com/middleeast/live-news/lebanon-beirut-explosion-live-updates-dle-intl/index.html

[Racetrack Playa]

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) strikes 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Beirut in Lebanon on Tuesday.(2day)
http://www.earthquakenewstoday.com/2020/08/04/minor-earthquake-m3-3-quake-has-struck-near-beirut-in-lebanon/
similar to


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Tianjin_explosions
this 2015 CHINA explosion registered as a 2.9 magnitude earthquake and generated seismic shock-waves with energy equivalent to 21.9 tonnes of TNT


https://youtu.be/iSZGVbhORG4?t=396

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The explosion that rocked Beirut on Tuesday afternoon was felt in the neighboring island of Cyprus, around 240 kilometers away – or about 150 miles — from Lebanon, according to the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC).

"We received a number of reports from Cyprus which seem related to this explosion, reporting noise and rattling windows," EMSC tweeted.
Several social media users also wrote on Twitter they felt the explosion in their homes in Cyprus.

"The explosion was felt in Limassol, Cyprus, our windows shaked (sic)," Elias Mavrokefalos tweeted. "I checked to see if we were being bombed," another Limassol resident tweeted. Another person said she also heard the explosion and felt a "light tremor" in the city of Nicosia.

Cyprus' Foreign Minister Nikos Christodoulides also tweeted that he's in "communication with the Lebanese government and have informed of Cyprus’ immediate readiness to assist Lebanon."

[PaceAdvantage]

Not a nuke...explosion would have been white hot/yellow in color initially, if it were...

[clicknow]

Looks unintentional to me. Like an ammo dump going off. Dockside warehouse type, not any kind of "modern" explosion. More like when you see a grain silo explosion, if you've ever seen one of those.

[PaceAdvantage]

Ammo dump would put out multiple explosions as all the different ammo types go up in flame.

This was one gigantic, singular explosion in the end...felt 150m away...breaking windows 10km away...and causing a 3.3 magnitude earthquake, which would have been even higher had it occurred underground, like an actual earthquake....

so....there's that.

[PaceAdvantage]

And Trump just called it "an attack"

But we all know he's always wrong.

He can't even pronounce the Hurricane's name...:pound:

[PaceAdvantage]

Trump doubles down on "ATTACK"

Says his "generals" have told him it looks to them like an attack and not an accident...

[Augenj]

"Initially, video taken by residents showed a fire raging at the port, sending up a giant column of smoke, illuminated by flashes of what appeared to be fireworks. Local TV stations reported that a fireworks warehouse was involved. The fire then appeared to spread to a nearby building, triggering a more massive explosion, sending up a mushroom cloud and generating a shock wave."

https://apnews.com/d6503f7d779f2790218fe29121368788

[TJDave]

I would by the nitrate explosion and its what I thought of when I saw it in the video. Remember only a small van of sodium nitrate blew up half of a federal building once and this might have been a much bigger cache of chemical.

The Murrow building was 1.5 miles away and the blast blew out most of my windows and damn near knocked me off the couch. That bomb was about the size of a small rental truck.

This looks like a warehouse version of the same thing. Could’ve been an accident, or not. They’ve been killing each other with abandon in Beirut for over 50 years. Can’t see how anyone should care much either way.

[Marshall Bennett]

Was an Ammonium nitrate storage facility, most likely ignited by terrorist.
One local source in Beirut claimed it was underground and security was as good as it gets. Perhaps an inside job where access became available.
Bet locals thought an atomic bomb had been dropped. They'll spend some time finding bodies.

[Longshot6977]

I just read that some guy was welding a patch for a small hole in a wall to prevent theft of the 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate that was stored there for the past 6 years. Boom!

[GMB@BP]

There have been lots of comparisons to the first nuclear bombs but a much better comparison would be the Halifax Explosion in the early 1900's. The attached is a great book about the event and how the community rallied together.

https://www.amazon.com/Great-Halifax-Explosion-Treachery-Extraordinary/dp/0062666541/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3FWW990CNUYO8&dchild=1&keywords=halifax+explosion+books&qid=1596597125&sprefix=halifax+ex%2Caps%2C202&sr=8-1

[PaceAdvantage]

Just crazy video from all over:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFa6LV8EEZk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nr9_kvw2aO0

[TJDave]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_City_disaster

2,200 tons

The Grandcamp explosion also created a powerful earthshock that broke windows as far as 40 miles away and knocked two small planes flying at 1,500 feet (460 m) out of the sky.

Until today it was the largest non-nuclear explosion.


The Beirut explosion bested Texas City by 550 tons.

[Augenj]

Reminds me of the PepCon explosion we had here years ago. It broke a neighbor's window and we were 7 miles away. Even so, it was smaller than the Beirut explosion. In this case, it was solid rocket fuel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPVpzjxRjPk

[Tom]

Was an Ammonium nitrate storage facility, most likely ignited by terrorist.
One local source in Beirut claimed it was underground and security was as good as it gets. Perhaps an inside job where access became available.
Bet locals thought an atomic bomb had been dropped. They'll spend some time finding bodies.

That's a lot of s***! :lol::lol::lol:

[fast4522]

Beirut is the other side of the world, having information close to what exactly happened is remarkable. Reports suggest a storage facility goes boom in a big way, given the location of the blast I hope weapons like shoulder held missiles that went missing in years past went up in smoke at that storage facility.

[taxicab]

https://twitter.com/jason_howerton/status/1291050080833871874

[clicknow]

Same thing that blew up in Tianjin, China several years ago.

It was worse than this though. 8 kiloton compared to the 2.7KT in Beirut.

I remember watching those videos. In the compilation, the very first video, the cameraman died. If you slow it down you can see the buildings literally disintegrating in front of him as the blast wave approaches.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=hUtrkfLKyFE&feature=emb_logo


Hiroshima was a nominal 20 KT, for comparison to an atomic blast.

[horses4courses]

That's a lot of s***! :lol::lol::lol:

Always a trip to see what amuses you neanderthals.
Sick f**ks.

[PaceAdvantage]

Sick f**ks.Wait until you find out what this really means...

[kingfin66]

Wait until you find out what this really means...

Lighten up H4C. It was Tom finding a little humor in a terrible situation. Google what caused the blast, and then Google what that is. Oh never mind, I will just tell you. It was ammonium nitrate (i.e. fertilizer...aka SHIT).

[Tom]

Lighten up H4C. It was Tom finding a little humor in a terrible situation. Google what caused the blast, and then Google what that is. Oh never mind, I will just tell you. It was ammonium nitrate (i.e. fertilizer...aka SHIT).

:lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol: :lol:

[Zydeco]

Lighten up H4C. It was Tom finding a little humor in a terrible situation. Google what caused the blast, and then Google what that is. Oh never mind, I will just tell you. It was ammonium nitrate (i.e. fertilizer...aka SHIT).

Well... if you have to explain it to them..

[davew]

300,000 homeless and many now protesting


with China virus, tourism almost non-existent and many unemployed and hungry

[tucker6]

300,000 homeless and many now protesting


with China virus, tourism almost non-existent and many unemployed and hungry
Wrong thread. We're discussing Lebanon not California.

[JustRalph]

Wrong thread. We're discussing Lebanon not California.

Bazinga!!

[davew]

the protests worked, the government is going to resign

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/lebanons-government-quits-as-outrage-swells-over-port-blast/ar-BB17N2sf?li=BBnb7Kz