Massive blast in Beirut

I wonder if Israel will offer help, most of the other countries in the region are pretty screwed.
 
It's such a shame, Lebanon has such a rich history and deserves to be a country on the up. However, the last year it's just been going backwards - their economy has been decimated, food shortages are common and hyper inflation. Now add this. Such a shame.
 
Yadda said:
You can see and hear fireworks going off after the initial, much smaller fire/explosion in the video in this tweet.

By Christ though, that's a blast and a half. :(

@SVNewsAlerts: #BREAKING - #Lebanese media claims the MASSIVE #explosions in #Beirut occurred in a fireworks warehouse. Fireworks can be seen in the video, moments later a secondary explosion caused most of the damage. #Lebanon https://twitter.com/SVNewsAlerts/status/1290674216623366144/video/1
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If that was assembled fireworks even under those conditions you'd have more varied effects and some launching a good distance normally - that along with the very close range initial footage is more like small arms cooking off.

Dunno if this video has been posted but kind of scary stuff going on if you slow motion the blast

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nr9_kvw2aO0
 
Rroff said:
If that was assembled fireworks even under those conditions you'd have more varied effects and some launching a good distance normally - that along with the very close range initial footage is more like small arms cooking off.

Dunno if this video has been posted but kind of scary stuff going on if you slow motion the blast

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nr9_kvw2aO0
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Whatever it was, some of it was exploding in the air above the building (the very first second of the video I posted). A huge consignment of Airbomb-type fireworks seems more likely than small arms ammo, assuming the reports of it being a fireworks facility are correct.
 
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Ahleckz said:
It's such a shame, Lebanon has such a rich history and deserves to be a country on the up. However, the last year it's just been going backwards - their economy has been decimated, food shortages are common and hyper inflation. Now add this. Such a shame.
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Yeah :( only in a small way but I've had a bit to do with charities working with children in the refugee camps there - always makes me feel a bit sad to see the trajectory of the country while by and large despite some of the stuff going on most of the people just want to mind their own business and get on with their lives.
 
Ahleckz said:
It's such a shame, Lebanon has such a rich history and deserves to be a country on the up. However, the last year it's just been going backwards - their economy has been decimated, food shortages are common and hyper inflation. Now add this. Such a shame.
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So sad, this is going to be a huge affect. Espically the docks. Going to be difficult getting medical supplies in, new building supplies. Espically as I beleive the whole corona thing is stil an issue over there. It's looking bleak right now.
 
Rroff said:
Not talking about the power of the explosion - but the composition.

As you say high-yield ANFO will easily cause something like this - but it doesn't look like the only component here.
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I agree, ANFO leaves a whitish coloured smoke. You normally get orangey/light-red smoke from the chemicals in small Rocket Motors (military missiles etc) but I've not seen smoke that dark red before so "maybe" it could be the mix of firework and ANFO creating that colour but I doubt it. Whatever they finally say was in there it is extremely unlikely to just have been ANFO alone.
 
ianh said:
I agree, ANFO leaves a whitish coloured smoke. You normally get orangey/light-red smoke from the chemicals in small Rocket Motors (military missiles etc) but I've not seen smoke that dark red before so "maybe" it could be the mix of firework and ANFO creating that colour but I doubt it. Whatever they finally say was in there it is extremely unlikely to just have been ANFO alone.
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Purely guessing but a couple of close up angles show a big blossom of a slower explosion with the dark coloured stuff about 0.5 seconds before the shock wave that goes super sonic emerges - wild guess but I'm guessing the fire spread from either ammo or assembled fireworks to something like firework precursors or rocket type fuel which when it violently combusted compromised nearby ammonium nitrate storage triggering it quickly after.

McstylisT said:
If this was even a small nuclear, these scenes would have been significantly more damaged. This is the blast or energy release. Got to be 10-20 MT. Will be very interesting to see what actually caused this. I don’t buy the current claims.
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4.5 initial seismic measurement - Tianjin by comparison was 2.9 but that was a probably larger but slower explosion (that is earthquake equivalence not tons).
 
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