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1 posted on 08/12/2015 3:21:56 PM PDT by Perdogg

I imagine if it was as large an explosion (2.9?) as they are saying, there will be more deaths.

2 posted on 08/12/2015 3:23:47 PM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)

If the guy taking the video 1 1/2 miles away was knocked to the floor by the shock wave, I’m sure there will be many more than 300. Furthermore, there were hundreds of firemen at the site when the explosion occurred. It is very hard to believe that only 7 total died.

3 posted on 08/12/2015 3:24:18 PM PDT by proxy_user

5 posted on 08/12/2015 3:25:53 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)

An internet friend of mine with family over there says whole apartment blocks have been leveled. I think the Chinese are deliberately playing this down.

7 posted on 08/12/2015 3:46:00 PM PDT by MeganC (The Republic of The United States of America: 7/4/1776 to 6/26/2015 R.I.P.)

Ordnance factory? Bombs away!!

8 posted on 08/12/2015 3:50:42 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing

I just hate it when that happens.

10 posted on 08/12/2015 3:53:59 PM PDT by miserare (Trump--the Andrew Dice Clay of the Republican Party.)

The blast, which could be felt kilometres (miles) away, was triggered when a shipment of explosives detonated in the container where it was being stored,

Another quality product Made in China

12 posted on 08/12/2015 4:02:32 PM PDT by Jed Eckert (Â† In hoc signo vinces)

One of the videos posted show not one but TWO major explosions, The first being the double explosion, followed about a minute later by a second huge explosion, bigger than even the first. Then you can see buildings on fire to the left.

There is no way in hell that only 7 people died. China will not reveal the true magnitude of its failure to the western world. It's just like when one of their rockets wiped out an entire town some years ago.

13 posted on 08/12/2015 4:03:36 PM PDT by 60Gunner (The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. - Plato)

Prayers up for those folks. Burns suck, and that would be just part of it. Likely flying debris (glass, especially) accounts for a lot of the injuries.

14 posted on 08/12/2015 4:03:41 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)

A massive explosion at a warehouse in the northern Chinese port city of Tianjin killed seven people and sent a fireball ripping through the sky, state media reported Thursday.

It will likely be in the thousands.

18 posted on 08/12/2015 4:27:52 PM PDT by Riley (The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)

The kid reports it was “almost right on top of the national supercomputing center of taijin”

19 posted on 08/12/2015 4:31:47 PM PDT by null and void (Support Islamic Repatriation)

To: Perdogg; All

Tianjin, China, Blast Affects Port Handling Coal, Metal Ore, Oil via Bloomberg
"The port, located about 160 kilometers southeast of Beijing in Tianjin municipality, has a container terminal and is near China National Offshore Oil Corp.’s Tianjin FLNG, China’s first floating liquefied natural-gas terminal. The LNG plant has a capacity of 1.059 trillion cubic feet a year, according to Bloomberg data."..."PetroChina Co.’s 359,000 barrel-a-day Dagang refinery, the country’s fifth largest, is in the southern part of Tianjin municipality, according to Bloomberg data. Calls to the company weren’t immediately returned"
AFP/Yahoo: 17 dead, 400 hurt as huge blasts hits China's Tianjin
"An AFP reporter at the scene saw shattered glass up to three kilometres (two miles) from the blast site, after a shipment of explosives detonated in an industrial zone raining debris on the city. Plumes of smoke still billowed over buildings six hours after the explosion, which occurred around 11:30 pm (1530 GMT) local time.
"The fireball was huge, maybe as much as 100 metres tall," said 27-year-old Huang Shiting, whose house is close to the port area of the city where the explosion took place." . . ."Much of the area surrounding the explosion is made up of construction sites for residential and office buildings. Worker dormitories, built of flimsy sheets of thin metal, were torn apart by the blast."
UPI adds:

"China's Xinhua news agency reported the explosion was caused by flammables and explosives at a container terminal. The agency said the blast set off a number of other explosions at buildings nearby.
The explosion was centered at a warehouse for a logistics company called Tianjin Dongjiang Port Rui Hai International Logistics, CNN reported.
Chinese state broadcaster CCTV said nearby tower blocks were without power, the BBC reported.
The emerging business district includes a new airport completed in 2012 and is home to 219 Fortune 500 companies, according to China Daily."

34 posted on 08/12/2015 5:38:54 PM PDT by wtd

Mashable provides lots of images culled from social media...including a photo illustrating how windows were blown out as far as 6 miles from blast.

36 posted on 08/12/2015 6:00:16 PM PDT by wtd

To: Perdogg; All

There appear to have been at least two explosions, the first wth a 2.3 degree magnitude and the following with a 2.9 degree magnitude, according to reports from the China Earthquake Networks Centre and reported by CCTV. That second blast was "equivalent to 21 tons of TNT", or about 19,000 kilograms, according to CCTV.

It is the third massive blast in recent months in eastern China. Earlier this month, a powerful explosion ripped through a factory in Kunshan, Jiangsu province, killing at least 68 people and injuring more than 187 others.It is the third massive blast in recent months in eastern China.

Earlier this month, a powerful explosion ripped through a factory in Kunshan, Jiangsu province, killing at least 68 people and injuring more than 187 others.

While an explosion hit part of an oil storage facility at Dragon Aromatics, an independent petrochemical producer, in April.