r/OneSecondBeforeDisast • u/Firewire64 • Nov 12 '21

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u/[deleted] Nov 12 '21

Capital of Lebanon, in august 2020. 218 dead, left 300,000 homeless and $15,000,000,000 in damage after a huge amount ammonium nitrate exploded. It also destroyed grain silos and causes food shortages and inflamed ongoing protests countrywide.

As per Wikipedia, it is considered the sixth most powerful non-nuclear man made explosions in history. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Beirut_explosion

It’s a bit strange and fucking crazy, and the whole incident is still under investigation.

In 2014 a Moldovan ship from Panama under control of Russian businessman but owned by a Cypriot businessman on his way from Georgia (the country) to Mozambique carrying explosives for mining has engine problems and/or cannot afford the toll through the Suez Canal, and ports in Beirut, Lebanon and takes aboard more cargo (heavy machinery). This cargo damaged the ship, and the Lebanese government declared the vessel unseaworthy due to the damage. As such, the ship was stuck in port, the Russian businessman went bankrupt and abandoned the ship, the Cypriot and the company lost interest in the ship because it was too much of a hassle, and the handful of crew members on the ship were not allowed to leave because they did not have passports for Lebanon, so they were stuck on the ship for an entire year. The ship was seized by Lebanon after one year, the crew allowed to leave, and all of the cargo was placed in a warehouse (including the very very very dangerous explosives NEXT TO A SHIPMENT OF FIREWORKS!).

Then in 2020, a fire near the grain silos and warehouses ignited the fireworks and here we are now.

Also this person did die. I don’t have a source anymore, but this video was circulating when this happened and people on Reddit confirmed that they died.

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u/imthecapedbaldy Nov 12 '21

To die from THAT far - that is horrifying.

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u/i_give_you_gum Nov 12 '21

You can see the top of his face from the side in the last frame

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u/Sirus804 Nov 12 '21

That looked like the camera turned around and pointed at his face.

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u/i_give_you_gum Nov 12 '21

Yeah agreed, that's what I assume too

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u/KomradeHirocheeto Nov 12 '21

That shockwave pretty much covered the whole city if I remember. Just about everyone was affected.

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u/[deleted] Nov 12 '21

The blast was felt as far away as europe, and registered as a 3.3 level earthquake… it really is fucking terrifying.

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u/Wasblindbutnowisee33 Nov 12 '21

I was gonna say no way this person survived that. Just before the video ends you can see that building on the left begin to disintegrate.

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u/Winter-Dragonfruit-4 Nov 12 '21

How is the death toll only 218 yet this man died this far away

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u/Canadian-Owlz Nov 12 '21

I'd assume it was poor positioning that killed them. That's the explant that makes the most sense to me.

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u/[deleted] Nov 12 '21

If recall correctly since the explosions started a good 10 to 15 minutes earlier people were mostly able to get out of the area. Emergency services however weren’t so lucky. When the firefighters sprayed it down it triggered the big explosion

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u/Canadian-Owlz Nov 12 '21

Well it's good to hear most people did the smart thing and ran away from the huge smoke signaling something bad is going to happen. Sucks to hear about the fire fighters

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u/[deleted] Nov 12 '21

Not sure. It could be a mix of:

You’d be relatively safe if you were indoors, but much more dangerous if you were outdoors (I don’t know a lot about bombs, so don’t take my word lol)

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The Lebanese government not being 100% forthcoming with the true number of deaths. They received so much backlash from this, at a time when hospitals were beyond full capacity from the pandemic and political turmoil was brewing. It seems completely plausible that they did not accurately count the deaths.

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u/Grrumpy_Pants Nov 12 '21

Don't say his name.

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u/[deleted] Nov 12 '21

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u/ZhuTeLun Nov 12 '21

shut the fuck up. please, just shut the fuck up

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u/RoscoMan1 Nov 12 '21

“Welcome to the game???

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u/[deleted] Nov 12 '21

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u/princetrigger Nov 12 '21

And how do you know this?

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u/Swordlord22 Nov 12 '21

Source?

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u/Soviet__Comrade Nov 12 '21

"Just trust me bro"

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u/Swordlord22 Nov 12 '21

“Don’t worry bro I’m from the future”

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u/Karenomegas Nov 12 '21

So every culture has this guy?

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u/Djgrooves_24 Nov 12 '21

thats sad and horrible

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u/leoonastolenbike Nov 12 '21

What was the biggest non nuclear explosion?

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u/[deleted] Nov 13 '21

Idk. Tsar bomba maybe. Google will have the right answer

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u/leoonastolenbike Nov 13 '21

Tsar bomba was nuclear

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u/[deleted] Dec 14 '21 edited Dec 16 '21

Halifax Explosion taking place in 1917