Huge Explosion in port of Beirut [2020-08]

[Ike Turner]

https://imgur.com/in0nPlQ

 

[iroboto]

having watched these enough, the shockwave hits people well before the cloud does.
Is that expanding cloud a sonic boom?

 

[pcchen]

having watched these enough, the shockwave hits people well before the cloud does.
Is that expanding cloud a sonic boom?

It's likely a condensation cloud, caused by quick reduction in air pressure thus the humidity in the air condensed into water vapor. Beirut is quite humid.
Sonic boom also causes it if the condition is right.

 

[Silent_Buddha]

having watched these enough, the shockwave hits people well before the cloud does.
Is that expanding cloud a sonic boom?

The sonic boom is the ripple (distortion) in the air. Looks like a transparent bubble. The debris (cloud of condensed moisture and other particles) are going slower than the speed of sound.

Regards,
SB

 

[Man from Atlantis]

The suspected cause ... Here are the bags of Ammonium Nitrate stored poorly in Beirut harbour. According news sources , the explosion was set off by workers who were "welding the doors shut to prevent stealing" .

https://twitter.com/x/status/1290880157687984130

 

[Sxotty]

You have to be kidding. I guess they won't make that mistake again (I probably shouldn't say that but it is obviously a macabre joke)

 

[milk]

They were WELDING THE DOOR! I would be lying if I said this is surprising. That is actually EXACTLY how I'd expect something like that to happen. It doesn't get more realistic and down to earth than this.

 

[iroboto]

=( damn.

 

[Arwin]

That doesn’t seem likely ... there was clearly an unrelated big Fire already happening before?

 

[London Geezer]

That doesn’t seem likely ... there was clearly an unrelated big Fire already happening before?

According to reports, there was a smaller explosion, then the much bigger one we saw after that. The fire was in between.

 

[digitalwanderer]

Holy lack of common sense and safety precautions Batman!



I keep reading it, but I just can't accept the reality of it.

 

[hoom]

So devastatingly awful
Lebanon is a place that should be awesome but just suffers tragedy after tragedy.

 

[RecessionCone]

2,700T. 1 ton is 1,000Kg, so 2,700T is 2,700,000Kg. No? Have I really spent so long in the UK that I've forgotten metric?

My mistake!

 

[AlNom]

Holy lack of common sense and safety precautions Batman!

View attachment 4434

I keep reading it, but I just can't accept the reality of it.

That's... a really weird way to lock something up, as if they gave up entirely on trying to dispose of it because how else were they going to open it back up *safely* if they ever intended to do so?

:|

 

[francisbaud]

Beirut explosion left 300,000 homeless, caused up to $15 billion in damage

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...xplosion-force-corruption-reforms/3307109001/

That's a really sad tragedy for this city