Huge explosion in Lebanon, 4th Aug 2020

[Mumbles274]

Another view here:

Fuck

Fuck indeed. Don't expect that building in front of the explosion is still standing, or many others around it

 

[platinumsage]

Twitter says everything from Israel nuking a Hezbollah missile storage site through to a dust explosion at a grain storage facility adjacent to a fireworks warehouse.

 

[8ball]

TBF that level of damage - and it looks absolutely horrific - looks a lot more like an industrial accident involving many tonnes of stuff going up. I doubt there are non-nuclear munitions that can cause that amount of damage, though I suppose its possible that someone might have turned a factory into a giant IED or something (though managerial incompetence has a much longer record of doing that).

Yeah, it must be in the kiloton range. Those poor people - I hope the fact that we're seeing the video means those ones really close to it survived.

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

Holy fuck that’s a huge bang

 

[cupid_stunt]

Sky is reporting windows taken out over 12 miles away!

 

[Indeliblelink]

Fuck indeed. Don't expect that building in front of the explosion is still standing, or many others around it

Seems to still be fairly intact.
Live feed Reuters Top News @Reuters

 

[Lord Camomile]

Devastating, in a very literal way.

Fucking hell

 

[Plumdaff]

Al Jazeera reporting that the Lebanese government has said "explosive materials" that had been confiscated many years ago were being stored in a warehouse at the port. Begs as many questions as it answers.

 

[teqniq]

As above:

 

[Mumbles274]

theres a live feed at Reuters Top News @Reuters

Seems to still be fairly intact.
Live feed Reuters Top News @Reuters

Wow, when you think what mcvey's bomb did to the building in the us, that's a surprise

 

[Sprocket.]

Poor Beirut, my heart goes out to you. How much misfortune and terror can a country take.

 

[8ball]

As above:

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Tons and tons and tons of it, surely.

 

[MrSki]

Fucking hell. Devastation. The aftermath.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

It does have the look of industrial accident about it more than anything else. Not that I really have the slightest idea what I'm talking about.

 

[agricola]

Yeah, it must be in the kiloton range. Those poor people - I hope the fact that we're seeing the video means those ones really close to it survived.

Hopefully, though one fears for the Beirut firefighters who might have been on scene.

 

[MrSki]

It does have the look of industrial accident about it more than anything else. Not that I really have the slightest idea what I'm talking about.

Poor people involved in that. Must be many dead & thousands injured by flying glass.

 

[cupid_stunt]

And, this on top of hospitals already struggling with the number of Covid cases being admitted over the last couple of weeks.

 

[8ball]

Hopefully, though one fears for the Beirut firefighters who might have been on scene.

Actually on the scene... fuck, dread to think but it doesn't seem possible without heavy cover and lot of luck.

 

[Ax^]

epp poor people

 

[gentlegreen]

Presumably stored close to oil or some other carbon-based material ...

 

[Pickman's model]

Al Jazeera reporting that the Lebanese government has said "explosive materials" that had been confiscated many years ago were being stored in a warehouse at the port. Begs as many questions as it answers.

sure it seemed like a good idea at the time

 

[Pickman's model]

It does have the look of industrial accident about it more than anything else. Not that I really have the slightest idea what I'm talking about.

that is the urban way

 

[8ball]

Presumably stored close to oil or some other carbon-based material ...

Fuck knows. Cameras can play tricks etc. but I don't think I've ever seen a non-nuclear explosion so big.

 

[agricola]

from the Guardian's liveblog:

A doctor at St Joseph’s hospital, less than 2km (1.2 miles) from the blast, said dozens of injured people were being brought for treatment but were unable to be received because the hospital had been destroyed.
“They’re bringing people to the hospital but we can’t treat them,” he said. “They’re leaving them outside in the street. The hospital is broken, the ER is broken.”

 

[Mrs Miggins]

from the Guardian's liveblog:

That's terrible.

 

[8ball]

from the Guardian's liveblog:

Fuck me.

The area of really serious damage is going to be massive if it's basically bust a hospital over a mile away.

 

[MrSki]

The only positive think is it happened at around 6pm local time so most of the office blocks would have been fairly empty. Fingers crossed.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

Fuck me.

The area of really serious damage is going to be massive if it's basically bust a hospital over a mile away.

It looked like some fucking massive explosion for sure.

 

[agricola]

Fuck me.

The area of really serious damage is going to be massive if it's basically bust a hospital over a mile away.

I don't know Beirut, but Google Earth suggests St Joseph's Hospital looks like its next to the port with mainly industrial buildings between it and the port. The residential bits look to be on the other side of the hospital, but obviously if its taken out the hospital then they will have been damaged as well.

 

[8ball]

It looked like some fucking massive explosion for sure.

Just looking on Maps - seven hospitals about as close or closer, from the look of things.