Posted on 08/12/2015 3:21:56 PM PDT by Perdogg
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.
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, according to the official Xinhua news agency.
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Off course they are lying. It is what they do. In 2013 when 47 people were killed by the oil tank car explosion in Lac Megantic, we all heard about it. When at practically the same time a mile of oil pipeline exploded in downtown Qingdao, China killing 62 people, nobody heard about it. Here are two links, one showing just how bad an oil pipeline explosion can be in a downtown area, and the other describing what steps have been taken in the aftermath.
http://www.syntao.com/Themes/Theme_Page_EN.asp?Theme_ID=112&Page_ID=16786
The second link also includes reference to a gas explosion in 2003 which killed 243. The role of human error was well documented. Everyone who says all these volatile fuels are safe conveniently forgets human error. Incidentally, which town was wiped out and when?
There are already tweets blaming the blast on the ‘mistreatment’ of the uighurs. ‘Allah’s punishment’, etc.
Black Cat fireworks?
And knowing the Chinese, people are going to be executed for this.
I see your link shows a map of the DC metropolitan area. Are you aware that the citizens of Maryland and DC are even now being urged to allow Exelon, owner of 23 aging nuclear power plants to take over the local PEPCO electrical distribution company? Excelon now owns Three Mile Island nuclear plant which cost over a $billion and 14 years to clean up after the 1970s disaster. Those 23 plants are going to cost more and more each year to keep in production doing great things for the utility bills in MD and DC.
Thank you for all the posts. After looking at the second posted video footage there appear to be 3 major centers of fire separated from one another, and running for what could be 4 to 7 blocks long or even more.
Here is an interesting quote from this link which describes the argument among the Chinese as to whether this quake killed 1/4 million people or 3 times that number.
“The earthquake came in one of the most dramatic years in the history of the People’s Republic. The earthquake was preceded by the death of Zhou Enlai in earlier months and followed by the death of Mao Zedong in September. The political repercussions of the disaster and its aftermath contributed to the end of the Cultural Revolution. Mao’s chosen successor Hua Guofeng showed concern, thereby solidifying his status as China’s leader. He, along with Vice-Premier Chen Yonggui, made a personal visit to Tangshan on August 4 to survey the damage and was photographed in the tasks of cleaning up and comforting the survivors.[14]”
In my readings about the 2013 Qingdao oil pipeline explosion that killed 62 people (see my comment #21 with links to that disaster), I read that the current Chinese leader did exactly the same thing—a personal visit to survey the damage and comfort the survivors. This followed by arresting various officials and heavy inquiries into the responsibility of the Sinopec company for not evacuating people as soon as trouble was spotted.
They have high tech research facilities in Tianjin Helix Nebula (CERN collaboration). http://www.helix-nebula.eu/events/helix-nebula-hpc-school-university-of-tianjin-06-07-august-2014
And it was Ethel to boot
Do tell. A wondrous conspiracy theory emerges!
Mushroom cloud in the YouTube video.
"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"
"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."
"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."
They have assembled 17 cadavers so far. Something like this is about the best you can hope for.
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.
Read more:via BrisbaneTimes
BBC .. with pics
China blasts: Casualties in Tianjin port city explosions
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-33896292
I bet he was...
The Beijing fire department sent two UAVs and eight firefighters to Tianjin for the blast rescue at 3:53 a.m. Thursday.
According to the official Weibo of the Beijing fire department, eight firefighters arrived at Tianjin Binhai New Area at around 6:50 a.m. this morning.
They drew a 360 degree panorama of the scene of the accident with the help of the drones, which will provide detailed support for the rescue.
Second blast as powerful as 46 Tomahawks combined
Two blasts rocked Tianjin Binhai New Area on Wednesday night. The first blast was equivalent to 3 tons of TNT while the second one was equivalent to 21 tons. In other words, the two blasts could be compared to seven and 46 U.S. Tomahawk cruise missiles combined, respectively.Firefighting suspended at Tianjin blast site
Firefighting efforts at the site of the blast in Tianjin have been suspended, because the number of hazardous chemicals at the explosion site is unknown, CCTV reported.
Tianhe-1 supercomputer stopped due to safety concerns
Scientists have stopped the Tianhe-1 supercomputer due to safety concerns after the Tianjin warehouse blasts.
The Tianhe-1 supercomputer is located at the National Supercomputer Center in the Binhai New Area of Tianjin Municipality.
The warehouse blasts on Wednesday night broke some parts of the outer wall and glass of the center’s building.
According to scientists at the supercomputer center, Tianhe-1 has not been affected by the blasts, but out of safety considerations, they temporarily shut down the computer.
Executives of company responsible for blasts in police custody
Company executives of Richsea International Logistics, whose warehouse caused the two blasts in Tianjin, have been taken into police custody, pending further inquiries.
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