Posted on Aug 12, 2015
China blasts: hundreds injured and at least 17 killed in Tianjin explosion fireball – latest updates
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BLEVE explosion, most likely a petro chemical plant. Thank goodness it was early morning with nobody working in the port area. I expect the aftermath pictures to resemble a war zone.
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Sgt Aaron Kennedy, MS
It's almost as if someone said "Biggy Smalls" x3 into a mirror. @Tiaqunia (TJ) Hayes.
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Vulcan the God of Fire has been a Busy Boy this week. After watching the Train Trestle beside my Daughters House in Sherwood, OR burn courtesy of Video provided by a News Helicopter Overhead got to watch this explosion On-Line.
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"The first explosion was huge, and the second was even more powerful -- the equivalent of 21 metric tons of TNT or a magnitude-2.9 earthquake,"
Yikes. To put that in perspective, that's ONLY roughly 100 times less than Fat Boy.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/13/asia/china-tianjin-explosions/index.html
Yikes. To put that in perspective, that's ONLY roughly 100 times less than Fat Boy.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/13/asia/china-tianjin-explosions/index.html
China explosion leaves dozens dead at busy port - CNN.com
Amid the destruction and the rising death toll in Tianjin, the cause of the enormous explosions that erupted late Wednesday remained unclear.
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Some reporter in China said it was an explosives holdingarea but they have since been shut down.
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