Explosion rocks China

[SportsGuy41017]

Explosion rocks Chinese city; 7 die

 

To me this looks like there was a detonation

 

Explosion rocks Chinese city of Tianjin; 7 die - CNN.com

[Bluto]

Wow.

[Wireman]

What in the world caused that?

[swamprat]

An explosion at a chemical warehouse.

 

The death toll is up to 50, now, with and over 700 injured. I have a feeling they're going to find more bodies and more of the critically injured will be dead before this is all said and done.

 

I read this morning that it was actually 2 blasts, the first with the approximate explosive power of 3 ton or TNT, the second, more powerful one, was like 21 ton of TNT. Over a thousand fire fighters and 143 fire engines, on the seen.

 

You can kind of get a sense of the size of the blast by looking at this picture of new Volkswagens completely destroyed with the warehouse still bellowing smoke in the background.

 

[TheDeuce]

^That is unreal.

[John Anthony]

Weapon testing gone wrong?

[Getslow]

What in the world caused that?

 

Weapon testing gone wrong?

 

It's China, so who could say if we'll ever actually know, but the reports say that the warehouse was a storage facility for a number of volatile chemicals. The BBC wasn't any more specific than that.

[SportsGuy41017]

Weapon testing gone wrong?

 

From the looks of it and the reports so far it looks like a detonation, it could be accidental, but with how it was described it seems to point towards a detonation.

 

But WOW! They are very lucky that the death toll isn't much higher.

[John Anthony]

From the looks of it and the reports so far it looks like a detonation' date=' it could be accidental, but with how it was described it seems to point towards a detonation. But WOW! They are very lucky that the death toll isn't much higher.[/quote']

 

Looks like a mini Hiroshima without the radiation. I doubt we'll ever get the truth though.

[nkuclubbaseball19]

It's China, so who could say if we'll ever actually know, but the reports say that the warehouse was a storage facility for a number of volatile chemicals. The BBC wasn't any more specific than that.

 

As someone who sees and handles DG material quite a bit, if the wrong chemicals were put next to each other, the results are catastrophic.

[Getslow]

As someone who sees and handles DG material quite a bit, if the wrong chemicals were put next to each other, the results are catastrophic.

 

And they have essentially zero enforcement of safety regulations over there. Anything could have happened and I'd probably believe it.

[Bluegrasscard]

A translated report from someone who went into restricted zone.

 

Good narrative and many photos.

 

He Xiaoxin: How Far Can I Go? And How Much Can I Do? - China Digital Times (CDT)

[swamprat]

Saw somewhere today, that the death toll was over 100.

[Wireman]

@AP 10m10 minutes ago

Thai official says it's 'much clearer who bombers are' but does not elaborate: The Latest: Thai official: It's 'clearer who bombers are'

[Hatz]

@AP 10m10 minutes ago

Thai official says it's 'much clearer who bombers are' but does not elaborate: The Latest: Thai official: It's 'clearer who bombers are'

 

This is about a different explosion, isn't it?