Aftermath Pix of Tianjin explosion

rcjordan · August 13, 2015, 12:14:25 AM

http://image.bjnews.com.cn/2015/08/1090.html#p=0579219F54CE

ergophobe · August 13, 2015, 04:07:44 AM

Wow

Here too
http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/12/asia/china-port-explosion/

rcjordan · August 13, 2015, 02:47:34 PM

BBC pix are good

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-33900268

What caught my eye in the first batch of photos I posted were the tires burned off the new cars lined up at the port parking lots. They were some distance from the epicenter, so the fireball must have been unbelievably powerful. What I couldn't tell was whether it was just the first few rows. Looks like it was all of them. Just plain incinerated. Damn. Looks more like a nuclear blast than a chemical one.

http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/624/cpsprodpb/650A/production/_84866852_811aff0d-b26d-4c1c-9a4e-5056a66df22a.jpg

littleman · August 13, 2015, 03:35:04 PM

>nuclear blast

Yeah, I thought the same thing. The official death tolls seem low considering the magnitude of the blast and that it happened so close to a populated area.

ukgimp · August 13, 2015, 07:25:20 PM

Saw vids of people some distance away being knocked over. Just mental.

If it was nuclear it should be easily identifiable.

Travoli · August 13, 2015, 08:15:29 PM

> death tolls seem low

And the government will undoubtedly ensure the official total stays low.

littleman · August 16, 2015, 12:16:01 AM

http://i.imgur.com/qc7FPxa.jpg

rcjordan · August 16, 2015, 12:48:54 AM

Holy crap! WTH went on there? Underground storage bunkers?

Official death toll = 104. Yeah, right.

Drastic · August 16, 2015, 05:11:01 PM

W.T.F.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2015/08/16/china-blast-contamination-fears/31809355/

Says they were holding 700 tons of sodium cyanide, where they were only legal to hold 10 tons.

So whatever it reacted to/with, this result is 70 times what should have been worst case scenario.

rcjordan · August 16, 2015, 05:42:44 PM

QuoteZhi Feng, general manager of the warehouse's operator, Ruihai International Logistics, has been under police watch while he receives medical treatment to ensure he does not flee during an investigation

Yeah, he'll make a good scapegoat. He'll be executed as the one who was entirely responsible.

rcjordan · August 18, 2015, 03:22:19 AM

Stabilized GIF of the 1st explosion

http://i.imgur.com/3RvNsB7.gifv

Album here. 2nd explosion shook the camera so hard it really couldn't be stabilized that well.

http://imgur.com/a/PQGCa?desktop=1