Large Explosions

Large explosions at military ammunition warehouse near Bekasi, Indonesia March 30, 2024

Large explosion at restaurant in Yanjiao, China. Reports of casualties March 12, 2024

Beirut Explosion Filmed on a Ship Aug 4, 2024 On 4 August 2020, a large amount of ammonium nitrate stored at the Port of Beirut in the capital city of Lebanon exploded, causing at least 218 deaths, 7,000 injuries, and US$15 billion in property damage, as well as leaving an estimated 300,000 people homeless. A cargo of 2,750 tonnes of the substance (equivalent to around 1.1 kilotons of TNT) had been stored in a warehouse without proper safety measures for the previous six years after having been confiscated by Lebanese authorities from the abandoned ship MV Rhosus. The explosion was preceded by a fire in the same warehouse The blast was so powerful that it physically shook the whole country of Lebanon. It was felt in Turkey, Syria, Palestine, Jordan, and Israel, as well as parts of Europe, and was heard in Cyprus, more than 240 km (150 mi) away. It was detected by the United States Geological Survey as a seismic event of magnitude 3.3 and is considered one of the most powerful non-nuclear explosions on record. It was powerful enough to affect Earth's ionosphere. Following the explosion, there were suspicions regarding Hezbollah's involvement due to allegations that the explosion occurred at a site storing Hezbollah's weapons. Hezbollah denied these allegations but has been actively involved in demonstrations against the investigation into the explosion. The Lebanese government declared a two-week state of emergency in response to the disaster. In its aftermath, protests erupted across Lebanon against the government for their failure to prevent the disaster, joining a larger series of protests which had been taking place across the country since 2019. On 10 August 2020, Prime Minister Hassan Diab and the Lebanese cabinet resigned. The adjacent grain silos were badly damaged. In July and August 2022, part of the silos collapsed following a weeks-long fire in the remaining grain.

Beirut Explosion Angle #7 Aug 4, 2020

Beirut Explosion Angle #6 Aug 4, 2020

A large explosion occurred in the vicinity of the city of Izhevsk in western Russia Feb 7, 2024

Operation Hardtack 1 Juniper 53070. 65 Kt on a barge from 12 feet altitude. July 22 1958 Nuclear weapons tests are experiments carried out to determine the performance, yield, and effects of nuclear weapons. Testing nuclear weapons offers practical information about how the weapons function, how detonations are affected by different conditions, and how personnel, structures, and equipment are affected when subjected to nuclear explosions. However, nuclear testing has often been used as an indicator of scientific and military strength. Many tests have been overtly political in their intention; most nuclear weapons states publicly declared their nuclear status through a nuclear test

Beirut explosion Angle #5 barely escaping death by seconds Aug 4, 2020

Beirut Explosion Angle #3 On 4 August 2020, a large amount of ammonium nitrate stored at the Port of Beirut in the capital city of Lebanon exploded, causing at least 218 deaths, 7,000 injuries, and US$15 billion in property damage

Massive gas explosion in Nairobi, Kenya. At least 2 dead, over 300 injured

On 29 August 1949, the Soviet Union secretly conducted its first successful weapon test (First Lightning, based on the American "Fat Man" design) at the Semipalatinsk-21 in Kazakhstan. Stalin alongside Soviet political officials and scientists were elated at the successful test.

Beirut explosion Aug 4, 2020 Lebanon.

Six people killed and over a dozen injured in Mongolia’s capital Wednesday after a truck carrying gas collided with a car, causing a huge explosion Jan 24, 2024

Beirut Explosion Angle 2 On 4 August 2020, a large amount of ammonium nitrate stored at the Port of Beirut in the capital city of Lebanon exploded, causing at least 218 deaths, 7,000 injuries, and US$15 billion in property damage, as well as leaving an estimated 300,000 people homeless

On 4 August 2020, a large amount of ammonium nitrate stored at the Port of Beirut in the capital city of Lebanon exploded, causing at least 218 deaths, 7,000 injuries, and US$15 billion in property damage, as well as leaving an estimated 300,000 people homeless.

Information Country United States Test series Operation Castle Test site Bikini Atoll Date May 5, 1954 Test type Atmospheric Yield 13.5 Mt

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Underwater Wahoo atomic bomb explosion of 1958

Castle Bravo nuclear blast 15Mt March 1, 1954 Castle Bravo was the first in a series of high-yield thermonuclear weapon design tests conducted by the United States at Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands, as part of Operation Castle. Detonated on March 1, 1954, the device remains the most powerful nuclear device ever detonated by the United States

RDS-37 Soviet hydrogen bomb test (1955)

Test video shows massive force of the "Mother of All Bombs the most powerful non-nuclear weapon in the American arsenal

Russia releases secret footage of 1961 Tsar Bomb hydrogen blast Russia has released previously classified footage of the world’s largest nuclear explosion

House in Arlington, Virginia, explodes as police attempt to execute search warrant Dec 4, 2023

July 4th, 2012 Fireworks show in San Diego where a computer glitch caused the entire 18 minute show to go off in 25 seconds

Massive explosion at LPG station near Bucharest, Romania 8-26-2023