construction of said walls risks setting it off. The tidal wave that the blast would create would jump the thames barrier and flood large swathes of the estuary and up into central london. They're not going to go near it with anything making vibrations. The hope is the seawater is degrading the material enough to render it ineffective. The main concern is the corrosion of the hull that is nearing the point where it could split and allow shells to spill out and clatter against each other. They are not happy about the prospect of all that movement. It's too volatile to get in there and may cause the event you're trying to prevent by doing so. Ergo, waiting game and hope for the best. Not ideal, but all they can do right now really.
Massive blast in Beirut
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construction of said walls risks setting it off. The tidal wave that the blast would create would jump the thames barrier and flood large swathes of the estuary and up into central london. They're not going to go near it with anything making vibrations. The hope is the seawater is degrading the material enough to render it ineffective. The main concern is the corrosion of the hull that is nearing the point where it could split and allow shells to spill out and clatter against each other. They are not happy about the prospect of all that movement. It's too volatile to get in there and may cause the event you're trying to prevent by doing so. Ergo, waiting game and hope for the best. Not ideal, but all they can do right now really.
not to mention the new planning rules they want to introduce (rightly being referred to by the press as a "developer's charter".
That would be a brown trouser job
There is still thought to be a fair amount of high explosives buried at RAF Fauld when up to 4,000 tones of bombs, shells and rifle ammunition exploded in 1944.
"It still has its sad place in the history books as it is the largest non-nuclear explosion ever to have occurred in the world when bombs, shells and rifle ammunition exploded at RAF Fauld."
https://www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/burton/fauld-explosion-ve-day-3579135
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Fauld_explosion
Although this list puts it second behind the Halifax Explosion in Canada.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large...rtificial_non-nuclear_explosions_by_magnitude
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That would be a brown trouser job
Imagine dropping one of your tools and watching it fall in slow motion.
SS John Burke can't be far behind ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJcDVbH5q3k )
Personally I think they are rating the Beirut blast a bit high - though it did dig a fair old crater.
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Not even on the list, somehow.
Can't quickly find a yield for it - various ratings from 1-10Kt equivalent.
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Not as epic but still pretty impressive explosion of gas station in Russia today
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The resulting increase in water bills will bankrupt 17 million households.
Been a few in the last few days - North Korea, Baltimore, Texas, etc. though it happens from time to time anyhow.
They sure liked to fill those liberty ships to the brim with explosives didn't they, wow.
Soldato
The list linked above is for accidental explosions, that one was a war time one so likely on another list.
The scary thing with that one - those cameras are a very long way from the blast and it is still huge.
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further up the page is the ww2 list.
Imagine dropping one of your tools and watching it fall in slow motion.
It'd be like watching your life flash before your eyes!
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Ahh, I missed that the page was huge and covered such a long date range, in that case I'd wildly speculate (that's what this thread is for, right...) that it wasn't quite as large/devastating as the others as it looks like the casualty list was fairly small compared to a skim read of the ones listed (I did skim so didn't check them all).
Imagine dropping one of your tools and watching it fall in slow motion.
Eesh, it would be the epitmoy of dropping a clanger. To paraphrase the Queen song: "we don't have no time at all, we're just waiting for the hammer to fall" (literally)