TXnMA
Wow. That was a huge explosion. What was the building right next to it? Was it something people would be in or was it a bunch of storage silos? Incredible that it looked to still be standing. Really hope it was silos and not an apartment building or hotel or office building. Otherwise the death toll is going to skyrocket. Makes me think of the Texas City explosion in 1947. That killed at least 581 people and was one of the largest non-nuclear explosions in history.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_City_disaster
That looks like a grain silo. At least that is what grain silo buildings along the Lake Erie shore in Buffalo use to look like. It could also be a cement silo for Portland cement.
IF that is what it is, it could have sustained the blast because they were typically made out of solid concrete.
TXnMA