disaster Port Of Beruit Explosion 2020

[deviant2]

This was back in 2020. I searched and didn't see any posts about it.

Ok, so Port of Beruit goes BOOM in a massive explosion. Some say because of the ammonium nitrate stored there, others say it was targeted for reasons. There were tunnels found under the rubble, so there's that. The narrative remains, accident.

It was hella big, causing millions in damage, many lives lost and injured.

Jet ski dude, had a helluva view. 👀





What appears to be an incoming missile seen on one recording when slowed down and flipped to negative view. In one of the videos above, it shows this object incoming and hitting it's target, a split second later, BOOM.

 

[Morty_]

A low-yield nuke ?

 

[Dr Deacon]

A low-yield nuke ?

Fertiliser.

 

[iheartbadmemes]

I bet they're still replacing the windows

 

[Morty_]

Fertiliser.

Yeah, fertilizer, that’s what I thought too, but the last 4 photos of this upload suggest a nuke.
I found a nuke hard to believe, which is why I had asked. They can test for fallout & shit, can’t they ?

 

[VileBreed]

I wish more of those people had died.

 

[Bad Hippo]

On 4 August 2020, a large amount of ammonium nitrate stored at the Port of Beirut in the capital city of Lebanon exploded, causing at least 218 deaths, 7,000 injuries, and US$15 billion in property damage, as well as leaving an estimated 300,000 people homeless. A cargo of 2,750 tonnes of the substance (equivalent to around 1.1 kilotons of TNT) had been stored in a warehouse without proper safety measures for the previous six years after having been confiscated by Lebanese authorities from the abandoned ship MV Rhosus. The explosion was preceded by a fire in the same warehouse.

The blast was so powerful that it physically shook the entire country of Lebanon. It was felt in Turkey, Syria, Palestine, Jordan, and Israel, as well as parts of Europe, and was heard in Cyprus, more than 240 km (150 mi) away. It was detected by the United States Geological Survey as a seismic event of magnitude 3.3 and is considered one of the most powerful non-nuclear explosions on record. It was powerful enough to affect Earth's ionosphere. The blast was also the largest single-fired ammonium nitrate explosion in history.

Following the explosion, there were suspicions regarding Hezbollah's involvement due to allegations that the explosion occurred at a site storing Hezbollah's weapons. Hezbollah denied these allegations but has been actively involved in demonstrations against the investigation into the explosion.

The Lebanese government declared a two-week state of emergency in response to the disaster. In its aftermath, protests erupted across Lebanon against the government for their failure to prevent the disaster, joining a larger series of protests which had been taking place across the country since 2019. On 10 August 2020, Prime Minister Hassan Diab and the Lebanese cabinet resigned.

The adjacent grain silos were badly damaged. In July and August 2022, part of the silos collapsed following a weeks-long fire in the remaining grain.

 

[Flatus Tube]

It’s one of the more beautiful explosions recorded on video. Impressive vaporisation within the shock wave.

 

[Douglas1r]

Yeah, fertilizer, that’s what I thought too, but the last 4 photos of this upload suggest a nuke.
I found a nuke hard to believe, which is why I had asked. They can test for fallout & shit, can’t they ?

They can test for radiation. Even if it was a tactical nuke (low yield) it would disperse too much radiation to hide. Fallout is eradiated dirt and debris from the blast. It was fertilizer. If the bomb was real, and not photoshopped,...it landed in fertilizer.

 

[deviant2]

It’s one of the more beautiful explosions recorded on video. Impressive vaporisation within the shock wave.

Agreed. Someone should take the vid from the farthest high-rise and slow-mo it.

They can test for radiation. Even if it was a tactical nuke (low yield) it would disperse too much radiation to hide. Fallout is eradiated dirt and debris from the blast. It was fertilizer. If the bomb was real, and not photoshopped,...it landed in fertilizer.

The guy suggests a nuke, doubt that is what it was. But ... Something did enter the video and landed in the bullseye. Some other bomb to ignite what was already burning?

 

[Elmondo]

I bet they're still replacing the windows

I would go Andersen.

 

[TITPOITS]

Couldn't be a nuke, to difficult to hide that detonation, especially in a major city. As someone suggested, most likely an incendiary type of device was used to ignite the fertilizer.

 

[Pensacola333]

They can test for radiation. Even if it was a tactical nuke (low yield) it would disperse too much radiation to hide. Fallout is eradiated dirt and debris from the blast. It was fertilizer. If the bomb was real, and not photoshopped,...it landed in fertilizer.

Come on... people! As bad as this is.....A nuclear explosion would be 10 times more powerful than that in explosive force. Did you fail physics in school?