Disaster Fireworks Warehouse Explosion in Beirut - Spoiler: It wasn't Fireworks it was 2,500+ tons of High-Explosive Ammonium Nitrate

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Beirut, Lebanon (CNN)

A large explosion rocked the Lebanese capital Beirut on Tuesday, damaging buildings and offices around the city.
The source of the explosion was a major fire at a warehouse for firecrackers near the port in Beirut, the state-run National News Agency reported.
A red cloud hung over the city in the wake of the blast as firefighting teams rushed to the scene to try to put out the fire.
Local news reported multiple people were wounded in the incident.
This is a breaking story, more to follow.

Twitter thread: https://mobile.twitter.com/tobiaschneider/status/1290670226934243329

Attaching all of the videos I grabbed from this guys twitter just now as well, here's one of them:

Here are some links to other posts in the thread with more content, you may need to go to the posts directly to see the media:

Spoiler: Two videos

Couple more angles of the explosions, seems everyone in Beirut holds their phone vertically. Buckle up for a very delayed boom in the second video.

Spoiler: Another angle, 'Allahu Ackbar'

Here's a different angle. Notice how the guys recording it say "Allahu Akbar".

EDIT: Direct embed

Spoiler: Slow Motion explosion

Found this slowmo of the explosion in which you can see the fireball and airblast more clearly

Spoiler: Two more videos

(edits: trying to get the spacing of text/video right; links to tweets)
I think this is just a slowed down version of this that I grabbed from twitter (https://twitter.com/saadmohseni/status/1290678176574779395):















Also this for another, closer angle (https://twitter.com/realdavereilly/status/1290690743217119235):

Spoiler: Lebanese Public Security: Not fireworks, High-Explosive Material

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And you retards thought putting it all in one place is a good idea?

Spoiler: Sodium Nitrate, PM's Wife and Daughter slightly injured in explosions, ISRAEL UNINVOLVED WE SWEAR

It was explosive sodium nitrate holy shit
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https://twitter.com/ragipsoylu/status/1290698269421600770

Israel denies involvement, Hezbollah says it wasn't their stuff, PM's wife and daughter injured
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https://twitter.com/ragipsoylu/status/1290703557797089281

Spoiler: Aftermath videos/photos

What remains of the dock:

Spoiler: Italy Radiation Spike

There’s a radiation spike picked up near Italy/scicily. Let me try to archive this or take a screenshot

http://archive.md/Nefcf

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Spoiler: 2 Minute Compilation Video

I know that there are several vids on here but here's a 2+ minute concatenation of multiple angles and some security camera footage of blast sites.

Spoiler: 2,700 TONS of Ammonia

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Translation: Preliminary security information talks about 2,700 tons of confiscated ammonia in the port exploded during the process of welding a small hole to prevent theft

 

[ImBatman]

Wouldn’t a nuke fry phone cameras?

A nuke would do much, MUCH worse than that.
EDIT: Just to put in perspective, this is what a nuke did to Hiroshima:

Spoiler

This was one of the earliest nukes. Modern nukes are even worse.

 

[／Ｏｕｒ Ｌａｄｄｉｅ／]

I mean, clearly it wasn't, but what if it was a limited-yield tactical nuke or a shittily-built sandpeople nuke?

I can't remember, but is there a minimum size for nukes/blasts based on critical mass?

Edit rather than double post:
Fat Man was 21kt and a W54 tested at 6kt, so 1/3-1/4 Nagasaki is still probably more than this.

 

[thx1138]

Wait, isn't this just par-for-the-course Beirut?

 

[ColtWalker1847]

Yeah, that looks like a massive fertilizer explosion. Which the Sodium Nitrate claims would go along with. They confiscated a shipload of suspect fertilizer/explosive material from somebody. Stuffed it in a hot warehouse unmonitored for over a year until something started to combust on the fringes until finally the whole thing blew. Google Texas City Explosion to get an idea of just how insanely massive of an explosion something like that can be. Second option would be a munitions dump or ship going up. But I’m leaning more towards human stupidity with massive amounts of fertilizer.

and edit, Sodium Nitrate is commonly known as Saltpeter, and has wide industrial uses. While not terribly explosive on its own, it’s the main ingredient in high nitrate fertilizers, which are incredibly explosive if stored in mass, allowed to decompose, mixed with petroleum products such as diesel fuel, or simply set on fire.

KNO3 is saltpeter. NaNO3 is Chile saltpeter.

I highly doubt it's intended use was as fertilizer when their business was fireworks. It's kind of niche use for that anyways as ammonium nitrate has higher nitrogen content.

 

[1Tonka_Truck]

Not smart enough to double check anyone of this, but if he's right that's a big boom

https://twitter.com/GeorgeWHerbert/status/1290719719545159680

https://archive.vn/HANEb

 

[Cypher]

Wait, isn't this just par-for-the-course Beirut?

Looks like Beirut back in the 80s

Blast from the motherfuckin past

 

[Knojkamarangasan_#4]

Yes it's totally just "Fireworks"
sloppy job mossad.

 

[kcbbq]

Wouldn’t a nuke fry phone cameras?

Maybe. Ground burst doesn't cause nearly as much (more fallout, though). Small nukes make small pulses, too, so if the voltage induced stays below what the esd diodes in the phones can protect from its probably safe. (safe is probably a bad choice of a word...)

A nuke would do much, MUCH worse than that.
EDIT: Just to put in perspective, this is what a nuke did to Hiroshima:

Spoiler

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This was one of the earliest nukes. Modern nukes are even worse.

Modern nukes can be bigger or much smaller, I think the US managed to get warheads down to about 1 or 2 percent the strength of the Hiroshima bomb.

I mean, clearly it wasn't, but what if it was a limited-yield tactical nuke or a shittily-built sandpeople nuke?

I can't remember, but is there a minimum size for nukes/blasts based on critical mass?

Edit rather than double post:
Fat Man was 21kt and a W54 tested at 6kt, so 1/3-1/4 Nagasaki is still probably more than this.

The backpack bombs that were meant to irradiate the Fulda Gap to slow the Russians were 1kt. I know the US had stuff down to 0.3kt for sure.

Edit: accidental double post. I apologize.

 

[DDBCAE CBAADCBE]

Dear god.

Terror attacks kill 2 civilians in northwestern Syria

2 bombs explode simultaneously in Idlib and Afrin, injuring 16 others - Anadolu Agency

www.aa.com.tr

At least 10 civilians were killed and 500 injured, including children, in terror attacks in Beirut today, 150 miles away from Cyprus.

Two bombs exploded simultaneously in what appeared to be a fireworks depot but,according to a local security source who asked not to be named due to restrictions on speaking to the media, this was a common know weapons depot used by Shia extremist to traffic bombs throughout the middle east.

The alleged suspect of this bomb is known to have ties to MDE and The Remants of the Islamic State in Syria. He known to authorities by his kunya name Samir Al-Hajeed Al-Kuwait.
Here is a quote from his Manifesto that he published online before the bombing.

" ..........ن تنكسر ، وتقتل ، ويغتصب أطفالك ويغسل دماغهم ، ويعتقدون أنه أمر مض "
"............do not forget that these people want you broke, dead, your kids raped and brainwashed, and they think it's funny"

Tensions in this reigon of the world has been rising ever since the Government Sanctions Assassination of one of Iran's top generals committed by the United States.

Authorities are now fearing that he was not a lone wolf but apart of a larger terriorist cell in the reigon and that there maybe more attacks in the near future.

Here is a known picture of the alleged terrorist:

Spoiler: terrorist

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Bruh, that's just Thunderfoot in a turban.

 

[McMitch]

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JUST LIKE IN FALLOUT 4!!!!!

I mean, he’s technically correct in that all explosions are atomic.

 

[Consenticles]

I can take an educated guess as to who is behind this.

 

[Slav Power]

Yes it's totally just "Fireworks"
sloppy job mossad.

Apparently there were also fuel and grain silos near the firework storage, so you know, maybe it was indeed a result of negligence and unfortunate mix of substances.

 

[RA-5C Vigilante]

"So Mahmood, you want me to put the Nitrate under the fireworks?"
"Yes Habib, right next to the TNT, the propane cylinders, and the unexploded Israeli nuclear bomb we dug up in Syria."
"Is this safe?"
"It should be ok don't worry bro"

 

[Cypher]

Translation: Preliminary security information talks about 2,700 tons of confiscated ammonia in the port exploded during the process of welding a small hole to prevent theft

 

[Wendy Wheelchair]

Archive this one,

 

[Judge Holden]

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Translation: Preliminary security information talks about 2,700 tons of confiscated ammonia in the port exploded during the process of welding a small hole to prevent theft

Well....they definitely ensured it wont be stolen

 

[ImBatman]

Translation: Preliminary security information talks about 2,700 tons of confiscated ammonia in the port exploded during the process of welding a small hole to prevent theft

Good plan. Can't steal confiscated ammonia if it gets blown to shit.

 

[Judge Holden]

I cant fucking wait for all the toneless memes that will come from this.

aaaaaaaaaaaaand the mayme is already driven into the ground

 

[kcbbq]

Well....they definitely ensured it wont be stolen

Mission accomplished, guys!

It looks like Hezbollah is having an "oh, shit" moment right now, calling for national unity. They know much of the country isn't pleased with them and will be less pleased with the end of the trial coming up and their recent adventures in Israel making the country look like a terrorist haven again, and seem to be desperately trying to not paint an even bigger target on themselves. They're not even trying to deflect attention onto Israel, which is normally like a basic greeting to them.

 

[Bender]

aaaaaaaaaaaaand the mayme is already driven into the ground
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As a fan of the Yakuza games I find myself conflicted between finding this absolutely fucking hilarious (it caught me off-guard and caused me to crease with laughter) or in bad taste.