Huge explosion in Lebanon, 4th Aug 2020
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The slowed down video from that page is chillingFrom Bellingcat...
What Just Blew Up In Beirut? - bellingcat
Shortly before 6 PM Beirut time reports began flooding Twitter of a fire and a series of explosions in Beirut. It rapidly became evident that event was far more than a small industrial fire. Shortly after, videos and images of a vast explosion flooded onto social media. The video below is a...www.bellingcat.com
Worth reading. Thorough and informed - and evidenced.
platinumsage
HaveMyPassword123
The 1947 Galveston explosion I linked to upthread was 2200 tonnes of ammonium nitrate, so might be useful to compare the damage, although of course there are lots of variables.
LDC
On est tous des pangolins
Yeah, have seen a clip of a person watching an explosion hundreds of metres (maybe even further away) and after a long pause a massive piece of shrapnel smashing into the wall right next to them as they're happily watch something they think they're safe from.
cupid_stunt
Chief seagull hater & farmerbarleymow's nemesis.
Cyprus is ready to send medical aid and teams to Lebanon, and accept injured persons for treatment.
One assumes other countries will be offering to help too,
One assumes other countries will be offering to help too,
Cid
Proper break this time
McVeigh added fuel oil to make ANFO, which is a fairly common industrial explosive, and acetylene, which was supposed to change some characteristics.
For a country that imports most of its food the loss of the port in Beirut, along with the full grain silos in the docks is going to affect the country for a long time. They are already struggling for food, the water supply is random and mostly undrinkable. The electric supply is always being cut.
Plus they have the problems with the corruption that has blighted the country for years. And now this devastation. The initial death toll and injuries are bad, but the homelessness and turmoil caused by hunger and possible disease is going to really hammer the Lebanese people again.
It’s heartbreaking.
Plus they have the problems with the corruption that has blighted the country for years. And now this devastation. The initial death toll and injuries are bad, but the homelessness and turmoil caused by hunger and possible disease is going to really hammer the Lebanese people again.
It’s heartbreaking.
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
This couldn't really have happened in a worse place from a humanitarian perspective, or at a worse time. Poor Lebanon 
tony.c
Well-Known Member
The explosion in 1944 of a munitions ship carrying 1,395 tons of explosives in Bombay docks resulted in death toll estimated at between 800-1300.
www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1944_Bombay_explosion
I was talking about this last night with the wife and something similar occurred to me that put the power of the explosion into perspective. I estimated it would take almost 6 minutes for the sound of the explosion to reach Cyprus. In that time it is at least theoretically possible that people had already seen news of the explosion on the telly. If they'd been watching some sort of live feed they could have gone back to their day and made a cup of tea in that time.
Eta- It was late. This morning I worked it out as over ten minutes.
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Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Is Bellingcat a trusted source? I had thought it was as they seem to do proper reporting but have just been told it’s not by someone.From Bellingcat...
What Just Blew Up In Beirut? - bellingcat
Shortly before 6 PM Beirut time reports began flooding Twitter of a fire and a series of explosions in Beirut. It rapidly became evident that event was far more than a small industrial fire. Shortly after, videos and images of a vast explosion flooded onto social media. The video below is a...
Worth reading. Thorough and informed - and evidenced.
MrCurry
right after this urgent rest
Good god, how do you even begin to fix that? The total damage across the whole city will surely bankrupt the country
MrCurry
right after this urgent rest
I don’t know much at all about it (but have been assured that’s no reason not to comment on urban
), but isn’t Bellingcat rumoured to be a mouthpiece for certain western intelligence agencies?
LDC
On est tous des pangolins
Yes it is a very trusted source. Everything they publish is referenced and checkable. Not that they don't make mistakes, but they're very good.
It's not liked by lots of conspiracy theory types and simplistic anti-imperialists as they have published stuff around Syria and Russia that doesn't toe the idiots line.
LDC
On est tous des pangolins
I don’t know much at all about it (but have been assured that’s no reason not to comment on urban
Absolute bollocks. Spread by conspiracy theory idiots.
Lebanon was palpably bankrupt in May this year. They were approaching the IMF for help in refloating their economy. This has totally flattened them both physically and economically .Good god, how do you even begin to fix that? The total damage across the whole city will surely bankrupt the country
The Lebanese Foreign Minister resigned earlier this week because of the financial state of the country, saying he was unable to carry on.
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Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Thought so, cheers. The person who told me doesn’t think it was an accident when it quite obvious that the explosion was too big to be a car bomb or whatever.
kebabking
Not a Girly Swot, but I like them....
Does this person have a bit of a hard-on for Assad and Putin?
Yes, Bellingcat is a trusted source - not only because of their previous work, but because they source and reference everything they report.
I worked on this site for whi
I've worked on that site in the early '80s. It was being used to test gas explosions at the time.
The UK government announced it will provide whatever help the Lebanese government ask for, financially or medical. The French have already sent two aircraft packed with personnel and equipment. Jordan and Egypt have dispatched field hospitals and Greece are in the process of sending aid.
I hope the UK government don’t put Chris Grayling in charge.
Dogsauce
I’ve got Skol but I’m not a Scholar
Was there any kind of wave/tsunami type thing precipitated by this explosion? I would have thought given the location it would create something quite big but no mention that I’ve seen, sort of thing that can do a lot of damage. Maybe partially contained by harbour structures?
DexterTCN
Troy and Abed in the morning
Bellingcat is a mouthpiece of the western intelligence services, as any quick search can confirm.
They sometimes operate under the 'some arsehole' doctrine but are mainly there to put out the state's version of events.
Some urban posters have been promoting them for quite some time and indeed, pushing their message on certain topics.
They sometimes operate under the 'some arsehole' doctrine but are mainly there to put out the state's version of events.
Some urban posters have been promoting them for quite some time and indeed, pushing their message on certain topics.
cupid_stunt
Chief seagull hater & farmerbarleymow's nemesis.
A quick search seems to confirm Bellingcat is a reliable & unbiased source.
Digging a bit deeper, and I see Moscow thinks it's run by western intelligence services, and there's a few hostile nubjob sites, such as Craig Murray's.
If DexterTCN thinks it's dodgy, it's probably safe, TBH.
Digging a bit deeper, and I see Moscow thinks it's run by western intelligence services, and there's a few hostile nubjob sites, such as Craig Murray's.
If DexterTCN thinks it's dodgy, it's probably safe, TBH.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Rubber stamp of Bellingcat’s integrity right there, thanks
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