Terror Explosion rocks central Beirut

[digrar]

And was it AN or AN based fert? If it was only 20 or 30% AN and had a heap of other S**t in the mix, it could come up with all colours of the rainbow.

 

[Chazman]

And was it AN or AN based fert? If it was only 20 or 30% AN and had a heap of other S**t in the mix, it could come up with all colours of the rainbow.

Agreed. Seems like more than one thing going up.

 

[Chazman]

The Jordanian outlet, Al-Hadeth is now reporting that this was a Hezbollah warehouse housing Iranian missiles.

 

[berkut76]

The Jordanian outlet, Al-Hadeth is now reporting that this was a Hezbollah warehouse housing Iranian missiles.

where are the multiple secondary detonations and literally sh*t flying all over?

 

[Chazman]

where are the multiple secondary detonations and literally sh*t flying all over?

In a few of the videos you can see multiple secondaries, and the fire getting more intense before the massive explosion.

 

[berkut76]

In a few of the videos you can see multiple secondaries, and the fire getting more intense before the massive explosion.

I've seen plenty of videos of fires and resulting detonations at various ammo depots. This definitely wasn't it. Until somebody would show me missile fragments, I would chalk this incident up to the typical 3rd world incompetence and irresponsibility. Most of the time, I feel that in 3rd world countries they don;t really need external enemies to mess things up.

 

[Chazman]

I've seen plenty of videos of fires and resulting detonations at various ammo depots. This definitely wasn't it. Until somebody would show me missile fragments, I would chalk this incident up to the typical 3rd world incompetence and irresponsibility. Most of the time, I feel that in 3rd world countries they don;t really need external enemies to mess things up.

Yeah, I wouldn’t mind more proof as well. But I’d bet by tomorrow, Twitter will be trending Iranian missules over AN.

 

[muck]

The affected site is the Port of Beirut Silo Terminal owned by the Libanese Ministry of Economy. Adjacent halls belong to the port authority and are used by the customs authorities and, apparently, by the local mail service to store items for processing.

I highly doubt that Iran or anybody else with criminal intentions in mind (except maybe the intention of cutting costs) stored weapons-grade material there. This smacks more of a Tianjin Explosion 2.0.

 

[Telmar]

This happened in Toulouse in France in 2001.

But the quantities were three times less. I have friends in Toulouse, including some that lived completely opposite, 8 miles from the factory. They told me they though the building next door blew up.

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The Jordanian outlet, Al-Hadeth is now reporting that this was a Hezbollah warehouse housing Iranian missiles.

The harbor is in the Christian part of the city. Not exactly a place where Hezbollah would like to leave such stuff. The airport is in their area, and any material coming from Iran would rather come by air than by sea.

 

[Chazman]

The affected site is the Port of Beirut Silo Terminal owned by the Libanese Ministry of Economy. Adjacent halls belong to the port authority and are used by the customs authorities and, apparently, by the local mail service to store items for processing.

I highly doubt that Iran or anybody else with criminal intentions in mind (except maybe the intention of cutting costs) stored weapons-grade material there. This smacks more of a Tianjin Explosion 2.0.

Just being devil’s advocate, but if I were Iran, that’s exactly where I’d put my missiles after they made the trip by ship. When they use roads, they tend to get blown up by the Israeli Air Force.

 

[muck]

Let's hope you're wrong. ?

 

[TheKiwi]

It was right next to massive grain silos. Some of the biggest non-nuclear explosions in history have been grain silo dust explosions. They're like a FAE waiting to happen.

 

[Connaught Ranger]

Ground Zero Beirut Harbor online source.

 

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Russian emercom will send 5 planes with humanitarian aid and specialists in Beirut:

МЧС отправит в Бейрут пять самолетов с врачами и спасателями

МЧС России вышлет в Бейрут пять самолетов для оказания помощи пострадавшим при взрыве в местном порту. Об этом говорится в поступившем в РБК сообщении МЧС. Всего пять самолетов МЧС России будут ...

www.rbc.ru

 

[Ivan le Fou]

Ground Zero Beirut Harbor online source.View attachment 243337

Wow! Literally digged through the pier.

I wonder if the silos managed to mitigate part of the blast though.

 

[IDF_TANKER]

Iran says it's not Israel.
Hezbollah says it's not Israel.
Lebanon says it's not Israel.
Israel says it's not Israel.

Western conspiracy theorists: it's Israel.

The irony of all this is that Nasrallah was threatening for years to do precisely this to Israel - we had a huge ammonia tank in the Haifa port (it was emptied 3 years ago).
In other news:

Israel offers humanitarian aid to Lebanon after Beirut explosions kill dozens

PM, defense and foreign ministers reach out to hostile neighbor through UN and international mediators after massive blast at port; president, opposition leader send condolences

https://www.timesofisrael.com/israe...-lebanon-after-beirut-explosions-kill-dozens/

I doubt they will accept though.

 

[muck]

It was right next to massive grain silos. Some of the biggest non-nuclear explosions in history have been grain silo dust explosions. They're like a FAE waiting to happen.

I'm quite sure now that's what's happened. According to my friend, those silos can take more than 120,000 tonnes of grain. And they were probably well-stocked considering the UN make regular shipments into that port to aid the refugees stranded in Lebanon.

And if you look closely, a lot of it seems to remain. Had the silo been what went off first and not the storage hall I suppose the grain would've been all but destroyed by the fire.

 

[Ivan le Fou]

A "long time ago" a grain silo exploded in France:

No crater.

And especially no, let's say 100m wide, hole in the ground with its epicenter meters away from the silos.

 

[muck]

I seem to remember a massive flour dust explosion occured in the States not too long ago.

Another large granary went off in Bremen, Germany in 1979, causing €116 million in damages and killing 14 people despite a timely evacuation. The facility depicted above dwarves the one in Bremen.

The news say that 250,000 Beiruti are now homeless. They might have just witnessed the largest man-made detonation in peace time.

 

[Telmar]

But if I understand correctly, although the explosion happened next to the silos, it' s actually a derivative of ammonia that blew up in enormous quantities. No?