Massive explosion in China kills 44 people

[Taylor]

http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/13/asia/china-tianjin-explosions/index.html

 

Watch the footage. Holy cow.

[Spencer]

There have to be more fatalities than that

[Taylor]

Death toll is going up. Reuters was reporting more than 50 dead.

[Jason]

Kind of what the Angels org needs (in a symbolic way). In all seriousness I feel for the victims of the families.

[Jason]

There have to be more fatalities than that

Sure seems like there should be

[Lhalo]

This better not affect the delivery date of the next generation of iPhones.

[gotbeer]

Enough to be felt on the richter scale and seen by weather satteliltes.  WTF were they storing that could cause the equivalent of 21 tons of TNT?  

 

A few heads will roll because of this.  

[Blarg]

That looks like a storage lot for cars to be sent to dealers. They are lined up by vehicle type and model.

[Blarg]

That is more damage than any of the ISIS air strikes have caused.

[Hollyw00d]

Ho Lee Fuk

[HaloFan85]

This dashcam video gives you a pretty good idea of what kind of force this explosion had.

 

The shockwave from the 2nd blast looks like something you'd expect from a friggin' nuke.  I would've turned that car around and never looked back.

 

 

 

[Blarg]

Looks like he did.

[Tank]

wow, son of a gun, what an explosion.

[gotbeer]

shock and awe.

[Lhalo]

yeah, that second shockwave it scary.

 

i really was wondering what it would be like compared to a nuke because i thought the same thing, and I really have no clue about any of that stuff.

 

I have some time on my hands, so I looked it up.

 

As somebody else said, the Tianjin explosion registered as the equivalent of detonating about 20 metric tons of TNT, and we all saw what that did.  The nuke we dropped on Nagasaki was relatively small compared to other nukes developed in history, and it was still the equivalent of 20 thousand tons of TNT.

 

For even more fun, the sun generates the energy equivalent of 100,000,000,000,000,000 tons of TNT per second.

Whoa. Kind of puts a nuke into perspective.

Thanks for the research Cez.

[gotbeer]

'Hundreds of tonnes' of cyanide at China blasts site: military

[Tank]

'Hundreds of tonnes' of cyanide at China blasts site: military

 

not surprising to hear given the power of the explosions.

[gotbeer]

Just a bad few weeks for the storage industry.  

 

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