Big Boom in Lebanon :[
 

A massive explosion at the docks.

There are a bunch POV video clips in the article.
Happenstance?? IDK

Prayers for the dead :[

After watching several of the POV vids, I suspect this was a cement or grain silo dust explosion.

one POV was taken from out in the sea (sputnik YT channel) with several allahu comments, video already started prior to and pointed at the blast, and no surprise expression at all. Makes you go hmmmmm


Makes me wonder if it involved submerged maritime at the port area. That appears like a huge water vapor expansion in the beginning. I should have paid more attention to my post blast investigation class :boohoo

Still trying to piece the puzzle..

Looks like it was a cargo ship docked and unloading or one of the silos next to the dock.

There was one video clip from the East end of the dock area, inside the blast zone. You can see the white cloud appears then dissipates almost immediately. I think it was water vapor atomized(sic) by the concussion.

Some screen captures.

PS: Does anyone remember the color chart to match chemicals??

Been a lot of strange "activity" around middle eastern ports with explosions as of late...
I read somewhere else, it may have been stuff in storage taken from another ship awhile ago. Something about arms and stuff to hezbolah...however, by the looks of that explosion, it would have to be a whole lot of "stuff"...

I dont know shit about this but that explosion had to have been in the multiple kt range.

They're saying 2750 tons of ammonium nitrate that was removed from a ship quite awhile ago. Ironically, I think that this may well go down as the largest urban explosion since Nagasaki, 75 years ago tomorrow.

Fireworks
 

In one of the videos looking out towards the sea and to the right of the silos, you could see what appeared to be fireworks going off. Shortly (seconds later) the massive explosion happened.

https://youtu.be/CtuQEhTVxyw?t=3

Watch the video 15 seconds after where it starts for that view of the explosion. Look at the warehouse and what was happening over the roof of that warehouse.

It could be chemicals or canisters cooking off as well. It wouldn't be the first time that a fireworks facility or fireworks cooked off like that. Back in 2016 at the San Pablito Market fireworks explosion happened. https://youtu.be/jaLS2aFDxZw In the video you can see the same tell tale signs even through the smoke as you can see in the Beirut Video footage.

And then there's this: Netanyahu 2018

Seems this might be more a Texas City than 9/11

Lack of safety standards and general stupid with unstable materials.


So it goes.

I think you may have it, but it only takes a little outside influence with jihadis to get someone to become an ink-spot martyr??


Grabbed a couple more pictures this AM. Finally a POV from the East side of the dock area.

Definitely looks like a dock-side creator.

It reminds me of the cache of ammonium nitrate that was detonated in Mosul in early 2008. The story we got was whoever was guarding the cache probably got spooked and hit the clacker when Iraqi police were kicking in the doors of a neighbor structure in search of "the usual suspects".

IIRC, the amount of ammonium nitrate that detonated was estimated to be up in a ridiculous number of tons and leveled a number of city blocks. Guys up in Mosul initially thought it was a Daisy Cutter. Like Beruit, it looked like a massive brown mushroom cloud. Among the wreckage in the blast zone was found an injured imam that the Iraqi police were looking for.

That is one big bada boom.

It will be interesting to see where this goes

Well, that's one technique to create more harbor space.

Maybe not the best but ........

JJ’s two pictures above needed some perspective.

Apparently I don’t the ability to attach a screenshot from Beirut. So go look at google maps to see the before landscape.

That's a big crater. It's hard to judge until you see the people standing at the edge of it.