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Apparently, there were some pretty strong explosions before: Halifax explosion - a ship carrying 2000+ tons of high explosives, exploded in the middle of Halif
by yread 14y ago
Apparently, there were some pretty strong explosions before:
Halifax explosion - a ship carrying 2000+ tons of high explosives, exploded in the middle of Halifax harbor completely obliterating the whole town, evaporating all the water in the harbor, creating 18 m tsunami, throwing the gun barrel from a ship 5km away.
Just 2 years ago there was this huge explosion
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evangelos_Florakis_Naval_Base_explosion http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evangelos_Florakis_Naval_Base_e... with more than 2kt TNT equivalent yield, check these before
http://www.hellas-sat.net/files/image/accident-cy/20%20June%202011%20Before%20Accident.jpg http://www.hellas-sat.net/files/image/accident-cy/20%20June%...
and after image
http://www.hellas-sat.net/files/image/accident-cy/12%20July%202011%20after%20Accident.jpg http://www.hellas-sat.net/files/image/accident-cy/12%20July%...
- omegant 14y agohttp://www.halifaxexplosion.org/intro.html http://www.halifaxexplosion.org/intro.html
- huxley 14y agoI live near the middle of the area destroyed in the Halifax Explosion. It was pretty significant, but didn't obliterate the whole town. The Richmond district (which is in the east part of the Halifax North End) was almost completely wiped out, almost 2000 people died and 9000 Haligonians were injured out of a population of 65,000. If you ever watch the Harrison Ford movie, K-19: The Widowmaker, you'd see the area of the Halifax North End that was affected, it was the location for shots in the film that stood for the Soviet-era Sevmash shipyard.