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An explosion in Tianjin, China [video]
- comrh 11y agoJesus, that is massive. I hope people are safe.
- aaronpk 11y agoMore info: http://www.cctv-america.com/2015/08/12/explosion-reported-in-tianjin-china http://www.cctv-america.com/2015/08/12/explosion-reported-in...
- vlunkr 11y agoHere's a few details: http://www.cctv-america.com/2015/08/12/explosion-reported-in-tianjin-china http://www.cctv-america.com/2015/08/12/explosion-reported-in...
- Thaxll 11y agoProbably a chemical warehouse?
- subhrm 11y agoSeems like a powerful blast . Is thee any oil refinery or power plant nearby ?
- abc_lisper 11y agoIt is a bad idea to stay near glass windows during an explosion. Don't do it kids.
- AdmiralAsshat 11y agoSuggestion for title in case English is not the submitter's first language: "A terrible explosion just happened in Tainjin, China." EDIT: Oh gee, I am so sorry I non-forcefully suggested a grammar fix in the title so that people would not harp on it. The proper response for my constructive criticism is more downvoting.
- carlosgg 11y agoYeah, I also think correctly conjugating the verb is what really matters. :-|
- MaxScheiber 11y agoWatching the videos on the CCTV America link reminded me of some basic (but apparently necessary) safety advice. If you're ever in a situation like this, don't stand by a window filming it! You only have seconds until the blast breaks yours windows (depending on your distance from the epicenter and the explosion strength). From what I understand, the biggest immediate danger is lacerations from flying glass. Get away from the windows and duck behind something solid.
- dx211 11y agoThe shockwave took about seven seconds to arrive, so they were about 1.5 miles away from the blast. It's not intuitive that the explosion can harm you at a distance like that -- as evidenced in more than one amateur video that came out of Iraq of EOD work.
- MaxScheiber 11y agoI agree, which is why it's especially necessary advice. Your gut instinct upon seeing that blindingly bright flash should be to duck and cover, whether you're outdoors or indoors. I wish this didn't have to be so important, since it feels like a Cold War relic, but that's just how things seem to be these days.
- hga 11y agoDuring the 2013 Chelyabinsk meteor kaboom, one 4th grade teacher remembered her Russian "Duck and Cover" lessons and her 44 charges avoided injury: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/17/world/europe/russians-seek-clues-and-count-blessings-after-meteor-blast.html?_r=1& http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/17/world/europe/russians-seek... By no means a "Cold War relic".
- mikeash 11y ago"Duck and cover" is a popular target for ridicule, which is weird because it's always been excellent advice, even for global thermonuclear war. The fact that it's good for more conventional explosions lends further emphasis to that fact.
- DarkTree 11y agoI know it can be pointless to compare circumstances. You can always find someone worse in your situation. I just read the (currently highest ranked) article about the failed Woolfe game, and reflected on how bad it must suck to put your heart, soul, and life into something only for it to fail. This sucks. But, then I came across this post, and it again makes me reevaluate what truly does, suck. Failing sucks, it really does, and it might feel like death, but ultimately, it's not, and real, physical tragedies always remind us that there are truly reasons to keep living each day with passion, even with the eyes of failure glaring at us. I hope everyone is ok.
- nickls 11y agoI really appreciated this comment. It puts (personal/startup) tragedies in perspective.
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- jostmey 11y agoLooks like there was an initial fire followed by a much larger explosion. My guess is that there was an accident at a major power/refinery plant.
- terminado 11y agoChinese city of Tianjin reported an explosion at the dock at the Tianjin Binhai New Development Zone around 11:30 p.m. Tuesday local time. Man, what the hell was on that boat? Seems like maybe it a B.L.E.V.E. (boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion).
- vonmoltke 11y agoCurrent official cause is an explosives shipment: http://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/1849118/blast-explosives-shipment-rocks-chinese-city-tianjin http://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/1849118/blast...
- fraserharris 11y agoMy dad was the first mate on deep-sea freighters operating between Oakland and SE Asia. Once they transported munitions from the Concord Naval Weapons Station, located at the mouth of the Sacremento River, to a US ally in Asia. Their route through San Francisco Bay and the Golden Gate Strait all the way out to blue waters was cleared of all ships an hour prior to their departure. Transporting munitions is a very dangerous activity.
- khuey 11y agoDid they clear the Golden Gate Bridge?
- mannykannot 11y agoPure uninformed speculation on my part, but an LNG terminal was opened in November 2013. http://www.platts.com/latest-news/natural-gas/singapore/chinas-cnooc-receives-first-lng-cargo-at-tianjin-27666510 http://www.platts.com/latest-news/natural-gas/singapore/chin... 'The Tianjin floating, storage and regasification unit is China's first such facility.'
- BerislavLopac 11y agoReminds me of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halifax_Explosion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halifax_Explosion
- daw___ 11y agoYouTube video: https://youtu.be/zEberOX33_Y https://youtu.be/zEberOX33_Y
- carlosgg 11y agoA photo of an apartment close to the explosion: https://twitter.com/thelastnext/status/631514796450430976 https://twitter.com/thelastnext/status/631514796450430976
- goatforce5 11y agoHe has other pics of the explosion, damage, injured people (not too gory), etc: https://twitter.com/thelastnext https://twitter.com/thelastnext
- aw3c2 11y agoAnd the click-bait media vultures are already hacking into it, despicable. http://i.imgur.com/MROUpJ6.jpg http://i.imgur.com/MROUpJ6.jpg
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- ceejayoz 11y ago1. No. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_major_power_stations_in_Tianjin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_major_power_stations_i... 2. Nuclear power plants don't go up like this.
- sbarre 11y agoSorry I wasn't implying that it was the source of the explosion, but I thought there was a power plant in the vicinity of Tianjin Port.
- jimrandomh 11y agoI have no information beyond what's in the links here, and general safety-consciousness. From the cctv-america.com link: > People standing outside of their buildings. Some have reported chemical gas leaks. To anyone who lives in the area, I would suggest putting as many miles between yourself and the site of the explosion as you can, and also trying to stay upwind. Breathe through a particulate filter if you have one, and until there's more information, assume that any unidentified chemical smell is very bad for you. If you aren't actively moving and aren't an emergency responder, you definitely shouldn't be standing outside; stay indoors with windows shut, preferably in an upper floor. If you can, avoid the local tap water for a few days.
- xname 11y agoIs there any experts here? Does this look like a gas station explosion?
- mzs 11y agohttp://us.sinaimg.cn/000wGOwWjx06UAlFMAzd01040100tS4x0k01.mp4 http://us.sinaimg.cn/000wGOwWjx06UAlFMAzd01040100tS4x0k01.mp... ISO Media, MP4 Base Media v1 [IS0 14496-12:2003]
- i336_ 11y agoI came here to mention the URL too. I have a downloaded copy as well if anyone needs it. The file sha256 is b74a269131bd54a4b1ada41e28e3e14ace80e770693fa3c328b26073ea9a6e06. (I would never have thought to mention the video type, kudos.)
- Involute 11y agoThat's some Michael Bay shit right there. Transformers 8 shooting nearby?
- ChrisArchitect 11y agoBegun, the Currency War has.
- guoqiang2 11y agoMore pic/videos from live search from weibo.com : http://weibo.com/p/1008087bef7c8c2cd3e28667d7cbf6ed9a7c4b http://weibo.com/p/1008087bef7c8c2cd3e28667d7cbf6ed9a7c4b http://s.weibo.com/weibo/%20%E5%A4%A9%E6%B4%A5%E5%A1%98%E6%B2%BD%E5%A4%A7%E7%88%86%E7%82%B8 http://s.weibo.com/weibo/%20%E5%A4%A9%E6%B4%A5%E5%A1%98%E6%B... People injured and hospitals around are full of patients...
- i336_ 11y agoThe first link currently redirects to a login page, FYI. The second one is okay.
- punnerud 11y agoClose footage with replay https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbPTKlHrX3w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbPTKlHrX3w
- mavdi 11y agochrist, don't want to the what happened to the guy filming it. That thing can make you pop like a balloon.
- ceejayoz 11y agoYou can see what looks like a wall fragmenting and heading toward the camera, too. Yowch.
- loceng 11y agoDoes anyone know if this person had a chance of surviving?
- dopamean 11y agoSeeing as the footage made its way onto youtube I'm going to assume the videographer is ok. Fingers crossed.
- willeponken 11y agoWhat I've heard, no. That video was (probably) from a live stream.
- thinkdevcode 11y agoThis is why you stay away from doors and windows during a possible explosion: https://twitter.com/OrRavid/status/631538952747380736 https://twitter.com/OrRavid/status/631538952747380736
- mavdi 11y agoI don't think staying away from there door in that case would've made much difference. The shockwave flattened everything.
- tomp 11y agoHow do you know when an explosion is possible?
- thinkdevcode 11y agoIn this instance, a massive and towering inferno in a port/construction zone/etc would be a reasonable marker that an explosion is possible and likely imminent.
- abc_lisper 11y agoLight travels faster than sound.
- mikeash 11y agoI don't know that it really applies to this video, but there are other videos out there of people recording video while looking at the window at the explosion, where they're far enough away to have a few seconds' warning before the shock wave hits.
- brianpan 11y agoAfter watching upwards of 3-4 videos on reddit today, I can confidently say that a large fire indicates an explosion is possible. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROrpKx3aIjA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROrpKx3aIjA (explosion at 30s)
- mzs 11y agoLooks to me like he may have seen the explosion and then instead of dropping to the ground, reached into a satchel to retrieve a camera. I'm very very sorry for this person and his friends and family.
- sandworm101 11y agoDoes this in any way compare to the halifax explosion? Maybe a new record for accidental explosions? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halifax_Explosion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halifax_Explosion
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- patrickyeon 11y agoThe cctv-america link talks about a blast equivalent to 21 tons of TNT at this event, and your link has 2.9 kilotons in Halifax. So Halifax was ~150x this one.
- mannykannot 11y agoI certainly hope not. There were 2000 fatalities in Halifax.
- huxley 11y agoThe Halifax Explosion was during working hours and near one of the most populated parts of Halifax which contributed to the large number of deaths. The Mont Blanc carried 3121 tons of picric acid, 200 tons of trinitrotoluene, 35 tons of benzol and 10 tons of gun cotton. 12 ophthalmologists treated 592 people with eye injuries and performed 249 enucleations. British Journal of Ophthalmology had a journal article about the medical treatments that were needed at the Halifax Explosion: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1955605/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1955605/
- sandworm101 11y agoI wonder if the different types of glass we use today would reduce that number. My new word for the day is "enucleation". For the love dogs do not look that one up on youtube.
- fapjacks 11y agoThis reminds me very much of watching FOB Falcon burn for six hours one night in Iraq. Lucky mortar strike hit the ammo dump. It was like this video all night.
- comrh 11y agovia reddit: It was picked up on the Japanese Himawari 8 weather satellite https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfgS3C7PblA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfgS3C7PblA
- miesman 11y agoSomeone else said there's a LPG terminal in the area. Just a guess but it looks like: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_liquid_expanding_vapor_explosion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_liquid_expanding_vapor... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gI0qU4EZbS8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gI0qU4EZbS8
- daimajia 11y agoThe explosion video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G89GrcvbMEo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G89GrcvbMEo Hope everything will be ok.
- dogma1138 11y agoWell apparently it was captured by an IR weather sat... https://twitter.com/RussellDengel/status/631523783874998272/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw https://twitter.com/RussellDengel/status/631523783874998272/... http://realearth.ssec.wisc.edu/?products=HIMAWARI-B07.72¢er=39.02396086622223,-242.2094096210937&zoom=9&width=973&height=652&timerange=2015-08-12%2016:40:00,2015-08-12%2016:40:00×tep=900s http://realearth.ssec.wisc.edu/?products=HIMAWARI-B07.72&cen...