Posted on 08/12/2015 12:33:13 PM PDT by Kartographer
It appears that carry trades are not the only thing blowing up in China. A massive explosion, fireball, and mushroom cloud can be seen at chemical storage facility in the Chinese port town of Tianjin...
*AT LEAST 100 PEOPLE HOSPITALIZED AFTER TIANJIN BLAST: XINHUA
As The Telegraph reports,
Series of explosions in Tianjin, northern China, caused a huge mushroom cloud and triggered shockwaves that could be felt miles away
Footage circulating online appears to show a massive explosion in China's northern Tianjin.
Reportedly caused by flammable cargo, videos from the scene show a dramatic fireball exploding near the site of a fire.
The official Xinhua news agency said the blast happened at around 11:30 pm (1630 GMT), when a deafening bang was heard as plumes of flame lit up the sky, scattering dust dozens of metres into the air.
It is still unclear what buildings and how many people were affected by the explosion, but one man filming was blown off his feet by the force.
Tianjin hospital says 100 casualties have already arrived, many with severe burns.
Tianjin is a major port and industrial area to the south-east of the Chinese capital, Beijing
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This just popped up - video of the aftermath of the explosion.
Looks like something after a WWII firebombing raid.
Just.....damn.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0HCShLfkc8
look up BLEVE
Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapor Explosion. Seems like that’s what this may have been.
Reminds me of the Galveston explosion in 1947 involving a ship full of ammonia nitrate.
Texas City, not Galveston.
That last clip shows the power. Burns, absolutely, but also probably thousands of newly-deaf people.
Maybe a Shitake cloud?
They have high tech research facilities there
Helix Nebula
(CERN collaboration)
ha ha you mean all that hacked govt and military employee information
or the bill of sale for the supercomputer signed by Bubba Clinton
that one turned human bodies inside out
Just a school teacher forcing the kids to make firecrackers for extra money.
That video looks like houses. I think the fuel facility that exploded is about 30 miles SE of the center of towntown based on the weather satelite video showing the blast radiating out. Seems like a fairly isolated facility, so obviously a huge blast to cause so much damage far away.
Most updated reports now say a shipment of explosives and not a fuel facility.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-33896292
Home viewing bookmark.
Godzilla?
Rodan!
It’s awful; but it’s hardly a “mushroom cloud” in the nuclear bomb sense.”
Looks like a Morel mushroom. Or as the hill folks call ‘em, “peter heads”.
Funny, I see the Angel of Death.
For a 100 points.... What is a No Smoking Sign?
TEXAS CITY, TEXAS, DISASTER
http://www.local1259iaff.org/report.htm
Report by:
FIRE PREVENTION AND ENGINEERING BUREAU OF TEXAS
DALLAS, TEXAS
and
THE NATIONAL BOARD OF FIRE UNDERWRITERS
Per Fox
7 killed, 300 injured
A container loaded with explosives being moved at a port let go..
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