1. Hm. Lot of smaller stuff cooking off during the fire, then the big kaboom. Could have been a previously-confiscated shipload of ammonium nitrate, which can, maybe, detonate from fire if stored in a sufficiently large pile (see also, Texas City Disaster). But why would such a cargo have been stored in proximity to whatever smaller bangy things were going off before? General neglect and incompetence? (In that part of the world? Inconceivable!)
   Or, it could have been a Hezbollah munitions warehouse.
   Either way, it’s very bad for all those people who were just trying to go about their lives in the general vicinity.

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2. Im no explosives expert. Seems way to big and fast blast to be A . N. If they had 2750 tons of it stored in the same building as bangy stuff that wernt to smart. Im sure it will be down played when and if “the news” talks about it.
   Live with terrorists, die with terrorists.

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3. In the inmortal words of Leeloo Dallas: Bheeg baadaaboom!

   Vids reminded me of the 2015 Tianjin boom: https://youtu.be/iv5g2MhPT5I

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4. I wonder how that explosion and its shockwave would compare to say, a daisy cutter or a MOAB. Or even a small atomic bomb.

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5. OSHA might term it “a workplace accident” that began in the assembly area.

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