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[Alebrije]

Hope is not a chemical plant because that would be horrible in long term

 

[Vic]

Video with a few different angles I saw on twitter. Warning, it gets really intense and you might hear panic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLfen9rjfvI&feature=youtu.be

Oh my fucking god.

 

[maquiladora]

 

[zeitgeist]

... Please tell me the first cameraman is alive

I think they must be since someone had to upload it right?

 

[stufte]

I think they must be since someone had to upload it right?

could have been something like periscope... streaming online.

 

[EdwardTivrusky]

Well if they are trying to cover up an incident, it isn't working.

I imagine they're just trying to stop people entering the area while there's still danger of more explosions. It's what i'd do with something this big.
If you're not there to help then stay out of the way for a while, they don't want to worry about more people entering the area when they're trying to work out what the hell to do and where to start.

 

[jmdajr]

I think they must be since someone had to upload it right?

I'm sure they shit their pants though. God damn.

 

[backflip10019]

I think they must be since someone had to upload it right?

I mean, it could have been a live stream that someone documented. Really hoping that's not the case.

 

[RyoonZ]

Damn

There's another one happened not too long ago too (

 

[Braag]

Holy fuck, that video D:

 

[CTLance]

Cripes, you can see the burning debris (liquid?) raining down again in some of these videos. I guess a huge area around the initial explosion is now burning. What a scary sight. Best of luck to the rescue and firefighting squads - and of course the general populace.

 

[GTP_Daverytimes]

Video with a few different angles I saw on twitter. Warning, it gets really intense and you might hear panic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLfen9rjfvI&feature=youtu.be

It almost doesn't look like the person on the first video survives, the building disintegrates right in front of them.

 

[Rastafarian42]

Whoa that's such a scary sight hope there isn't too much damage.

 

[superseohyun]

Well if they are trying to cover up an incident, it isn't working.

yes let the media go to the explosion site right now!
.......

 

[Damaniel]

Well if they are trying to cover up an incident, it isn't working.

Outside of North Korea, you can't cover up anything anymore - we're all too connected for that (which is a good thing).

 

[Viridian6]

Holy shit.

 

[fates]

Video with a few different angles I saw on twitter. Warning, it gets really intense and you might hear panic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLfen9rjfvI&feature=youtu.be

I sure hope that first one was an automated camera or something...

 

[LordCanti]

Video with a few different angles I saw on twitter. Warning, it gets really intense and you might hear panic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLfen9rjfvI&feature=youtu.be

If that first guy filming lived it's a miracle. Holy shit.

I sure hope that first one was an automated camera or something...

I hope so too because damn.

 

[TimorousPanda]

Horrifying.

 

[Baraka in the White House]

This has to be fertilizer, right?

I work at a refinery that has a catalytic hyrocracking unit and based on what I've been told would happen if it were ever to blow... yeah, something like this video comes to mind.

 

[RotBot]

Reminder that you should get away from windows if you see a huge explosion like this in the distance.

 

[Phat Michael]

Crazy and scary. Anyone else see the face in the 2nd pic? So damn freaky...

 

[TCRS]

holy fuck

did not expect that.

 

[Branduil]

There is no way the death toll is only 40.

 

[lamaroo]

Holy crap

Energy is just fucking insane. You go from that "relatively small" explosion, to that giant one in a matter of milliseconds.

 

[A Fish Aficionado]

That was a big shockwave.

 

[TCRS]

imagine all the chemicals in the atmosphere... jesus.

 

[-COOLIO-]

i'm surprised that no major non-chinese news networks appear to be reporting on this yet.

 

[maquiladora]

Has this 2:16min video been posted? Two massive explosions, the second one is the biggest. Look how far some of that large burning material explodes outwards from the second explosion. Damage must be extensive.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1aHADL2a24

 

[helloresolven]

i'm surprised that no major non-chinese news networks appear to be reporting on this yet.

I just heard about it from a The Guardian notification on my phone, http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/12/explosion-chinese-port-city-tianjin.

 

[TheWorthyEdge]

That's horrifying.

 

[Duane Cunningham]

The Guardian is just getting details in now

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/12/explosion-chinese-port-city-tianjin

 

[Alebrije]

imagine all the chemicals in the atmosphere... jesus.

Ended , if it really is chemical plant now what kind of chemicals did it use? A pesticide plant would be a nightmare for the zone.

 

[Damaniel]

More footage (WARNING NSFL: there are possibly dead bodies at the end of the video - you've been warned):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQwRMGa4jsU

This is an epic clusterfuck and I'm guessing the final casualty count is going to be far too high...

 

[Randdalf]

http://video.weibo.com/show?fid=1034:68091c622008625c693a7f761ace170e
This is the original video of the close up. The chance of the one who took it surviving is... slim.

It is literally mid of the night here and people's lives are at stake.

How did they post the video if they didn't survive?

 

[thenight11]

Has this 2:16min video been posted? Two massive explosions, the second one is the biggest. Look how far some of that large burning material explodes outwards from the second explosion. Damage must be extensive.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1aHADL2a24

Damn

 

[Baron von Loathsome]

This is absolutely insane.

 

[User 100115]

Has this 2:16min video been posted? Two massive explosions, the second one is the biggest. Look how far some of that large burning material explodes outwards from the second explosion. Damage must be extensive.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1aHADL2a24

Just from watching this, I suspect the death toll is going to be a lot larger than forty. Holy shit.

 

[cirrhosis]

Has this 2:16min video been posted? Two massive explosions, the second one is the biggest. Look how far some of that large burning material explodes outwards from the second explosion. Damage must be extensive.

holy fucking shit, that's nuts

 

[El Odio]

Holy fuck is that scary. Hopefully any casualties are minimal.

 

[backflip10019]

How did they post the video if they didn't survive?

Someone could have pulled it from a live stream.

 

[thenight11]

More footage (WARNING NSFL: there are possibly dead bodies at the end of the video - you've been warned):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQwRMGa4jsU

This is an epic clusterfuck and I'm guessing the final casualty count is going to be far too high...

This is going to be really really bad. The amount of people towards the end in the hospital :/

 

[evilromero]

That's horrifying. The way it lit up the nearby town was...damn. I've heard that nukes are so powerful it's essentially like day light. I can't even fathom that shit.

 

[-Plasma Reus-]

Someone could have pulled it from a live stream.

would explain why the video cuts off suddenly

 

[Goreomedy]

This is going to be really really bad. The amount of people towards the end in the hospital :/

I imagine that's from flying glass.

 

[maquiladora]

Explosion showed up on this satellite.

 

[-Horizon-]

Video with a few different angles I saw on twitter. Warning, it gets really intense and you might hear panic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLfen9rjfvI&feature=youtu.be

That beginning scared the crap out of me because I had my sound up.

 

[Wyndstryker]

Thats insane, reminds me of when we had that propane facility explosion here in TO awhile back.

 

[DrM]

Has this 2:16min video been posted? Two massive explosions, the second one is the biggest. Look how far some of that large burning material explodes outwards from the second explosion. Damage must be extensive.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1aHADL2a24

This could be from one of the firefighters or security guards, they have radio connection to somebody.

 

[Ozigizo]

I'm having difficulty believing that the body count is only 40. There's no way with an explosion that huge in such a populated city.