Massive Explosion in Tianjin, China - Cause Unknown

[Scam]

Man you would seriously just think that was a nuke or an alien attack or something. I'd be waiting for the shockwave like you see in movies and certain doom

 

[mushtafa]

That dash cam vid above really shows the force from it!

 

[Danthus]

It looks catastrophic, the video of the man in the back ally just looks insanely scarey.

It almost looks as if it was from a found footage movie, unbelievable!

 

[NickK]

Its not quite "as bad" as it looks - the shockwave is travelling fast down the narrow alley ways between the buildings, etc. taking everything light weight with it making it look like the building are coming apart more than they are... still a good chance of serious injury or death though.

Shock wave = pressure wave = death my haemorrhaging.. same reason why USA's daisy cutters are so lethal.

 

[V F]

Man you would seriously just think that was a nuke or an alien attack or something. I'd be waiting for the shockwave like you see in movies and certain doom

Looks like that scene from Chronicles of Riddick as they try to beat the sun.

 

[koolpc]

Blimey, that dash cam vid!!!!! Looks like a nuke!!! So terrible occurrence. Lets hope the death toll doesnt rise too much!

 

[Mercenary Keyboard Warrior]

Think the Chinese found a queen wasp

 

[Curio]

A disaster of unspeakable magnitude! Let's just hope this was an accident and not something malicious which it could well be

I highly doubt it was any type of terrorist attack, if that's what you're suggesting. Maybe a disgruntled worker tried to set fire to his bosses office and it "escalated", but that's about as malicious as it's going to get. There have been a few of these kinds of accidents, unfortunately

 

[NickK]

NASA fuel factory had a big bang:

Watch the white factory top left.

 

[Tom|Nbk]

wow that shock wave insane video never seen anything like that!

 

[sprite1275]

Just seen vids of this on the news. that is an unbelievable explosion, those metal containers just look like crushed coke cans.

 

[AthlonXP1800]

Holy crap. Felt like shockwave from atomic cannon bomb blast video.

 

[Rroff]

^^ And that is just the equivalence of 21 tons of TNT nothing like the megatons of a nuke.

 

[cyber69]

Hmm it could be a warehouse containing many 'interesting' products such as fertiliser.

However typically to get a big shockwave you need high velocity explosions - compressed volatiles becoming a fuel-air mix or high explosives.

US had an ammo explosion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Chicago_disaster

The disaster at Halifax caused one of the biggest non-nuclear explosions to date.

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

Read about it years ago and always remember it especially the man who went back to his post to send warnings about the forthcoming explosion to other trains and his last message before the blast.

 

[Rroff]

Might wanna lose the link with that language - but by far the best video of it yet.

 

[robfosters]

I would honestly think we was being nuked if I saw that.

 

[Devrij]

That is just insane. It goes from videoing a small fire to giant wall of fire and noise in a few seconds. You would just have no chance of you were close to that

 

[Rids]

I can't comprehend a fireball of that size, it just blows my mind. I think if I'd witnessed that I would have thought the world was ending.

 

[Curio]

NASA fuel factory had a big bang:

Watch the white factory top left.

Yeah, that one was much bigger than the Tianjin explosion. I seem to remember it was the same as a 1kt nuke going off. So about 50x the explosive force of Tianjin.

 

[Mull3t]

Full 40ft containers were found up to 1km away from the blast. That's some force.