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http://news.nationalpost.com/news/world/massive-explosion-reported-in-chinese-city-of-tianjin
Flammable goods at a container terminal in northern China’s Tianjin municipality exploded at about 11:30 p.m. local time on Wednesday (11:30 a.m. ET), shattering windows and causing injuries, according to state media reports. The blast was powerful enough that the shockwave knocked people over several kilometres away. The number of casualties from the blast in the city’s Binhai New Area is unknown, China Central Television reported on its news app, citing the local fire department. Injured people have been hospitalized, it said. One report put the number injured higher than 300. The Daily Mirror reported the injury toll at more than 1,000. Although there are no confirmed reports of deaths so far, some of the graphic images coming out of the city imply that the death count will be far higher than zero.  “At the time of the explosion the ground was shaking fiercely, nearby cars and buildings were shaking, a few buildings’ glass all broke and everyone started to run,” Ms Yang, an eyewitness, was reported telling the local media by the BBC. “Now all the residents are gathered in the street.” The China Earthquake Networks Center said on its Weibo microblog account that it recorded two explosions, with the second one larger. Local residents said windows and fish tanks were shattered, the official Xinhua News Agency reported. Flames lit the sky and dust was blown “dozens of meters” into the air, Xinhua said. Tianjin is a major port city near Beijing, and is being developed into “China’s answer to Manhattan” with plans to make it a major financial centre. 7.5 million people live in the city. |
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Have seen some of the videos online that people were taking from their bedrooms or living rooms at the time of the explosions.
These were massive detonations by any standards. Looks like LNG (liquified natural gas) storage facilities based on the structures I saw in the vids. Extremely high pressure shock waves collapsed the adjacent storage tanks, breached the contents, and created an instantaneous mass detonation. I'm going to suggest hundreds may be dead based on the obvious effects of fire, high speed shrapnel, larger falling debris, collapsed buildings, shattered windows and doors, etc. It's one of those things you look at, and are astonished at the brutal power of what an industrial accident can do in a couple seconds. There is no fire safety program that prepares people for what happened here. |
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Have seen some of the videos online that people were taking from their bedrooms or living rooms at the time of the explosions. These were massive detonations by any standards. Looks like LNG (liquified natural gas) storage facilities based on the structures I saw in the vids. Extremely high pressure shock waves collapsed the adjacent storage tanks, breached the contents, and created an instantaneous mass detonation. I'm going to suggest hundreds may be dead based on the obvious effects of fire, high speed shrapnel, larger falling debris, collapsed buildings, shattered windows and doors, etc. It's one of those things you look at, and are astonished at the brutal power of what an industrial accident can do in a couple seconds. There is no fire safety program that prepares people for what happened here. yea, that link has a liveleak video that is incredible... you can see both explosions, and the second blinded the camera for a sec... |
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http://news.nationalpost.com/news/world/massive-explosion-reported-in-chinese-city-of-tianjin Flammable goods at a container terminal in northern China’s Tianjin municipality exploded at about 11:30 p.m. local time on Wednesday (11:30 a.m. ET), shattering windows and causing injuries, according to state media reports. The blast was powerful enough that the shockwave knocked people over several kilometres away. The number of casualties from the blast in the city’s Binhai New Area is unknown, China Central Television reported on its news app, citing the local fire department. Injured people have been hospitalized, it said. One report put the number injured higher than 300. The Daily Mirror reported the injury toll at more than 1,000. Although there are no confirmed reports of deaths so far, some of the graphic images coming out of the city imply that the death count will be far higher than zero. “At the time of the explosion the ground was shaking fiercely, nearby cars and buildings were shaking, a few buildings’ glass all broke and everyone started to run,” Ms Yang, an eyewitness, was reported telling the local media by the BBC. “Now all the residents are gathered in the street.” The China Earthquake Networks Center said on its Weibo microblog account that it recorded two explosions, with the second one larger. Local residents said windows and fish tanks were shattered, the official Xinhua News Agency reported. Flames lit the sky and dust was blown “dozens of meters” into the air, Xinhua said. Tianjin is a major port city near Beijing, and is being developed into “China’s answer to Manhattan” with plans to make it a major financial centre. 7.5 million people live in the city. Hory crap! |
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metalwing
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Wed 08/12/15 03:28 PM
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Reminds me of when Texas City, Texas blew up. It even blew an airplane out of the sky from a great distance. Some dipchit was welding in a barg filled with nitrate fertilizer.
I suspect something similar happened here. "The Texas City disaster was an industrial accident that occurred April 16, 1947, in the Port of Texas City. It was the deadliest industrial accident in U.S. history, and one of the largest non-nuclear explosions. Originating with a mid-morning fire on board the French-registered vessel SS Grandcamp (docked in the port), its cargo of approximately 2,300 tons (approximately 2,100 metric tons) of ammonium nitrate detonated,[1] with the initial blast and subsequent chain-reaction of further fires and explosions in other ships and nearby oil-storage facilities killing at least 581 people, including all but one member of the Texas City fire department.[2] The disaster triggered the first ever class action lawsuit against the United States government, under the then-recently enacted Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA), on behalf of 8,485 victims." |
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I'm working in China. There are rules here on fire and safety but they are never followed. Local " mayors" are all paid off to look the other way.
Actually everyone is paid off.. that is how business is conducted here. I have been to Tianjin port many times and it is the same as any other Chinese port.. a catastrophe waiting to happen. Every day, the "propane guys" are out delivering their propane tanks. There are no propane delivery trucks, they strap 4-5 tanks ( or as many as they can) to the back of they 125cc motorcycle and weave in and out of traffic making their deliveries. About 6 months ago one guy had a accident in the town. He went up like a small mushroom cloud. No investigation.. no big deal.. the mind set is " well, it sucks being him"... next.. just the way it is here. Someone will take the fall from the Chinese government as to what happened in Tianjin.. because the world knows about it. But that will change nothing. Life is cheap here. it is really hard to grasp just how cheap. |
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I've witnessed smaller explosions first hand that had death tolls in the hundreds. Been through the aftermath first hand as well and it isn't pretty. They said on the news that it was a hazardous materials warehouse that blew up and LNG O2 or acetylene looks to have been a part of the explosion. Some pressurized combustible. You could see a few of the containers (rockets by that time) blazing out ahead of the fireball and ending up much farther away. Terrible.
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