Multiple views of the 2020 accidental explosion at the Port of Beirut, caused by a warehouse fire that ignited a massive stockpile of ammonium nitrate—an event considered one of the largest non-nuclear explosions in history
Multiple views of the 2020 accidental explosion at the Port of Beirut, caused by a warehouse fire that ignited a massive stockpile of ammonium nitrate—an event considered one of the largest non-nuclear explosions in history
At least 218 died, more than 7,000 injured, and 300,000 lost their homes
wld002 on
OutRunTerminator on
I thought this was a backpack nuke and this was someone trying to start world war three when I first saw this.
My commiserations to all those who were killed and injured.
quanoey on
Also Beirut used to be a very nice looking city, now there’s a lot of parts that will never be the same. RIP to the people who passed because of the explosion.
NotBillderz on
Guy on the jet ski will never not impress me. The quick thinking that probably saved his hearing at least.
HighFlyingCrocodile on
Crazy shockwave
Currawong on
The cameraman didn’t necessarily live this time.
AggravatedKangaroo on
And no fucker in the Lebanese government was ever investigated.
ImmediateCustomer318 on
Makes me think of what the Halifax explosion look like. I imagine something like this. Insane!
Holy fuck can’t believe it’s been 5 years already i remember this like it was yesterday
bellboy718 on
Want to see the aftermath
dangerousbob on
About 1/15th the size of Hiroshima.
Clcooper423 on
Gotta be top 5 dumbest accidents in modern human history.
Nationxx on
Wasn’t this just posted somewhere else?
dalekaup on
A key part of that was the storage of tires in the building. It enabled to fire to get hot enough to trigger the ammonium nitrate.
donanton616 on
There was a couple taking wedding pictures when this happenned and the videographer caught it on camera.
Exkersion on
The wedding video from this is crazy
TheMahanglin on
The sound it made must’ve been terrifying as hell
Anxious_Lab_2049 on
God I remember how it felt to see this on the news when it happened….. fresh into the pandemic, it seemed like pure random evil unleashed such awful destruction and suffering on so many people, many of whom were already very very poor.
TheB1G_Lebowski on
Man that sweet e36 in dakar yellow.
xSweetSlayerx on
Watching shows and stuff, there’s always that small inkling in the back of your mind telling you that explosions are dramatized and don’t actually look that crazy in real life. Wow.
Mlarcin on
It’s still such insane footage to watch. I remember seeing it on Reddit the morning it happened and was assuming some kind of bomb had gone off.
Maacll on
Seing that house start to come apart close to the cameraman in the first clip shows you how fucking scary those shockwaves are
HesperNox on
Love revisiting my trauma every month through these videos. My office is there like a few meters away from this, but we kind of disassociate until we see it again through these videos.
Grim_Trigger_451 on
Why would so many cameras be facing that rather uninteresting view at that very moment?
HungryCats96 on
Excellent demonstration of why you don’t want to be within 10-20 miles of a nuke going off. Or maybe you do. It might be better to go fast than to survive a nuclear war.
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At least 218 died, more than 7,000 injured, and 300,000 lost their homes
I thought this was a backpack nuke and this was someone trying to start world war three when I first saw this.
My commiserations to all those who were killed and injured.
Also Beirut used to be a very nice looking city, now there’s a lot of parts that will never be the same. RIP to the people who passed because of the explosion.
Guy on the jet ski will never not impress me. The quick thinking that probably saved his hearing at least.
Crazy shockwave
The cameraman didn’t necessarily live this time.
And no fucker in the Lebanese government was ever investigated.
Makes me think of what the Halifax explosion look like. I imagine something like this. Insane!
That last clip… hope he lived.
https://preview.redd.it/meqji2by6h9g1.png?width=1100&format=png&auto=webp&s=bdb966735f45d0c1c38f17dea4260b31bff7c80d
It made a 43 meter deep crater. A 14 story building would sit at the bottom.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Beirut_explosion](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Beirut_explosion)
Holy fuck can’t believe it’s been 5 years already i remember this like it was yesterday
Want to see the aftermath
About 1/15th the size of Hiroshima.
Gotta be top 5 dumbest accidents in modern human history.
Wasn’t this just posted somewhere else?
A key part of that was the storage of tires in the building. It enabled to fire to get hot enough to trigger the ammonium nitrate.
There was a couple taking wedding pictures when this happenned and the videographer caught it on camera.
The wedding video from this is crazy
The sound it made must’ve been terrifying as hell
God I remember how it felt to see this on the news when it happened….. fresh into the pandemic, it seemed like pure random evil unleashed such awful destruction and suffering on so many people, many of whom were already very very poor.
Man that sweet e36 in dakar yellow.
Watching shows and stuff, there’s always that small inkling in the back of your mind telling you that explosions are dramatized and don’t actually look that crazy in real life. Wow.
It’s still such insane footage to watch. I remember seeing it on Reddit the morning it happened and was assuming some kind of bomb had gone off.
Seing that house start to come apart close to the cameraman in the first clip shows you how fucking scary those shockwaves are
Love revisiting my trauma every month through these videos. My office is there like a few meters away from this, but we kind of disassociate until we see it again through these videos.
Why would so many cameras be facing that rather uninteresting view at that very moment?
Excellent demonstration of why you don’t want to be within 10-20 miles of a nuke going off. Or maybe you do. It might be better to go fast than to survive a nuclear war.