Posted on 08/12/2015 11:03:18 AM PDT by FreeAtlanta
Footage circulating online appears to show a massive explosion in the northern Chinese city of Tianjin, the cause of which is not yet known. The explosion reportedly occurred at the Tianjin Binhai New Development Zone at about 23:30 (15:30 GMT). Pictures and video footage shared on social media suggest a number of people were wounded by the blast. Several nearby tower blocks are without power, according to the Chine
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Shipment to Iran gone bad?
That looks almost nuclear.
Hundreds of pics from Chinese Social Media site Weibo being posted HERE:
http://ban.jo/News/Asia/20150812/Giant-Explosion-Causes-Fire-In-China-Tianjin/
Twitter saying a 20-story residential housing tower “May” have collapsed due to the explosion.
That is a memory worth having!
Dear God what a nightmare. People would mostly be home at night..
Twitter:
People’s Daily,China
3 min.
#Tianjin:Fire expected to last for another 2 hours.Cars parked near explosion still blasting. Road congested 10km off
All hosps by #Tianjin full. Many buildings from #TianjinBlast caused hundreds of injuries. A lot of high-temp burns.
Ping
Check out the videos on the thread too.
Amazing video. Yesterday there was a thread about how to survive a nuclear blast. Lots of good advice there - except there should be one about “do not just stand there taking video of the explosion”.
I wonder how many people thought a nuke had gone off in their backyard!?
What a nightmare is right. And it could have been started by the smallest error.
“Hey Zuang - you should be using the special non-sparking brass wrench!”
“Oh - it will be okay. I just need to tighten this one little bolt just a bit more.”
Believed to be site of explosion. Before the explosion of course.
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/china-explosion-live-updates-massive-6241984
Good site if one doesn't "do" twitter.
I don’t know if the first image is a dual explosion or simply bisected by a massive amount of debris ejecting towards the photographer. One of the videos in this thread shows a more ‘side’ angle to the explosion, and you can see a massive plume of debris being fired at nearly sonic speeds towards the city center.
And you just know there will be people who will try.
Going to be a lot of flying glass injuries.
Twitter’s wrong on the math.. a 3.0 earthquake is equivalent to 1,000 pounds of tnt. A 2.5 is equivalent to 187 pounds.
Since it was an above ground explosion on recovered land, much of the shockwave below ground would have been absorbed by the soft material and not transferred over a distance for earthquake measurement.
Yowza...The guy going through the door in the video never knew that hit him.
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