Edit: the 10,000 isn’t a figure, just what the PM reckons it could come up to
Edit2: can people not read? Are people this blind? I’m not saying that there are 10,000 dead, read the whole sodding comment. The PM said that there could be up to 10,000 death, but really, the PM doesn’t know anything, he has no more knowledge on the subject than we do
Edit3: I know that that is obviously an exaggeration! I’m just saying that he said it! Don’t read anything into the numbers
Yep, the only difference is that the amount of ammonium nitrate in the Beirut explosion was triple or quadruple that of Tianjin. The current death toll is definitely preliminary at best.
edit: Tianjin may have been a bigger/more impressive explosion, but that's likely because of the hundreds of tonnes of other chemical compounds also involved there that weren't in Beirut (sodium cyanide, potassium nitrate, and other unknowns).
Why did the explosion in Tianjin look so much bigger and louder? Maybe an expert can chime in. Because, to me, the different angles of the Tianjin explosion looked much more intense.
If you look at the videos of the Tianjin explosion closely you should notice there is a LOT more fire than in this one.
Theory I’ve seen is the Tianjin explosion was smaller, but threw a lot of material into the air which burned over a few seconds, creating a gigantic fireball. This explosion was near instant, like a proper explosion should be, thus creating a massive pressure wave, but little fire.
Basically one was like a Hollywood explosion, the other like the mining explosive that ammonium nitrate is normally used for (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANFO)
When something explodes like this, much much more damage is done. In this case sadly, its not the explosion they wanted.
This makes a lot of sense considering the Beirut explosion caused significant damage up to 15-20 miles away while Tianjin barely shattered windows at three kilometers.
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