No this is NOT 9/11 for China because I doubt that terrorism was involved.
I have to say what fascinated me about this explosion was what I learned a few years ago when I came across those nuclear weapon’s threads. i.e. some bombs are not really as powerful as people expect from nuclear weapons. I was shocked to discover the Hiroshima bomb could be dropped on downtown Seattle and the U-district may lose a few windows and that’s it.
The bombs seemed devastating because of the type of structures the Japanese used in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It was the perfect target for what was in essence the mother of incendiary bombs. It would have been less effective against Berlin.
Here is another link showing the sequence of explosions vividly. It actually looks like 3 specific explosions. The 1st video was taken by people who sound like Americans. When the first explosion occurs, they are laughing and joking and one says maybe a gas station. Then the second huge explosion occurs and the group gets serious and shocked, then what appears to be a third huge explosion occurs, and they decide they better go downstairs. The reports have all said 2 explosions, but this certainly looks like a third one with the talking continuing in the background from the 2nd to 3rd one so I don’t see how this could have been a repeat of the 2nd one. Also you see individual flaming parts raining outward like a fireworks explosion. Other videos then follow including one describing flouting of rules regarding building safe distances from potentially hazardous industrial sites and descriptions of known chemicals at site. These included calcium chloride which burns when touched with water and emits acetylene gas, and a huge amount of a chemical with cyanide (700 tons I think they said). The Chinese have been very hush, hush about air pollution, and the next video which was in Chinese only mentioned chemicals not including cyanide. A following video shot from helicopter shows the vast area of devastation including masses of metal shipping container washed up against a high rise like pebbles at a beach after a storm. Another one shows a large water filled crater, perhaps 400 or more feet in diameter, based on the probable 40 feet length of shipping containers nearby. Death toll up to 57, with over 700 hospitalized with over 50 critical or serious. At least 15 firefighters killed and 1,000 responding. Since the explosions happened around 11 pm, the daylight shots are long after the initial explosions.