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Old 08-04-2020, 05:17 PM   #46
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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) strikes 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Beirut in Lebanon on Tuesday.(2day)
http://www.earthquakenewstoday.com/2...ut-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


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Old 08-04-2020, 05:19 PM   #47
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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."
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Old 08-04-2020, 05:27 PM   #48
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Not a nuke...explosion would have been white hot/yellow in color initially, if it were...
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Old 08-04-2020, 05:56 PM   #49
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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.
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Old 08-04-2020, 06:07 PM   #50
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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.
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Old 08-04-2020, 06:09 PM   #51
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And Trump just called it "an attack"

But we all know he's always wrong.

He can't even pronounce the Hurricane's name...
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Old 08-04-2020, 06:28 PM   #52
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Trump doubles down on "ATTACK"

Says his "generals" have told him it looks to them like an attack and not an accident...
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Old 08-04-2020, 07:09 PM   #53
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"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."

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Old 08-04-2020, 08:10 PM   #54
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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.
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Old 08-04-2020, 08:23 PM   #55
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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.
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Old 08-04-2020, 09:29 PM   #56
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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!
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Old 08-04-2020, 11:13 PM   #57
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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...s%2C202&sr=8-1
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Just crazy video from all over:


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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.
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Old 08-05-2020, 05:36 AM   #60
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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.


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