Anna B Posted August 13, 2015 Share Posted August 13, 2015 Enormous fireball like a mushroom cloud. The blast could be seen from space. The devastation is dreadful. What on earth were they making in that factory? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Arthur Posted August 13, 2015 Share Posted August 13, 2015 An explosives delivery apparently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gamston Posted August 13, 2015 Share Posted August 13, 2015 Heath and Safety Madness ( It doesn't seem to exist in China) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geared Posted August 13, 2015 Share Posted August 13, 2015 Wouldn't be the least bit surprised if it turns out someone would have been smoking there. Chances are everything will be kept hushed up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Obelix Posted August 13, 2015 Share Posted August 13, 2015 It wasn't a factory, it was the shipping yard at the docks where it went bang. The footage shows large amounts of shipping containers, freshly delivered Beetle cars for export/import etc. If it had been a factory and therefore lots more people about it'd have been in the city and the dead would be "just" 44 people, it'd be thousands... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JFKvsNixon Posted August 13, 2015 Share Posted August 13, 2015 Here's some pictures of the devastation. There is an unbelievable amount of damage to the point that looks like a low yield nuclear bomb has gone off. Unfortunately I wouldn't be surprised to see the casualty numbers rise considerably. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister M Posted August 13, 2015 Share Posted August 13, 2015 Here's some pictures of the devastation. There is an unbelievable amount of damage to the point that looks like a low yield nuclear bomb has gone off. Unfortunately I wouldn't be surprised to see the casualty numbers rise considerably. Those pics look horrid - like Sheffield as depicted in Threads Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Obelix Posted August 13, 2015 Share Posted August 13, 2015 Here's some pictures of the devastation. There is an unbelievable amount of damage to the point that looks like a low yield nuclear bomb has gone off. Unfortunately I wouldn't be surprised to see the casualty numbers rise considerably. If it was a low yield nuclear device then those buildings wouldn't be standing. Most of that looks like uncontrolled fires have gone through especially the car lot they will have just burnt from one to the other and nothing could be done to stop it. It looks like there has been a huge area that has burnt, or is still burning I should think probably because there was just so much combustible stuff there. They said a lot of firefighters were killed in the explosions, so I can only presume they were already there fighting a fire which is presumably what triggered the explosions. 50 dead now they reckon I can only imagine that is going to rise a lot more Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cassity Posted August 13, 2015 Share Posted August 13, 2015 Before and after From space. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cgksheff Posted August 13, 2015 Share Posted August 13, 2015 (edited) Before and after From space. More of a "Before and During"! The images are pretty meaningless without any explanation: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/13/tianjin-explosions-visible-from-space-china Edited August 13, 2015 by cgksheff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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