maquiladora
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It started with a fire at a warehouse that handled hazardous shipping containers. Tianjian Dongjiang Port Rui Hai International Logistics Co. Ltd
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Massive explosion in Tianjin, China (Update: at least 44 dead, 500+ injured)
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It started with a fire at a warehouse that handled hazardous shipping containers. Tianjian Dongjiang Port Rui Hai International Logistics Co. Ltd
MonorailCat
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10km buildings knocked down. Sounds fake. Tents maybe, but not buildings. You would need a really sizeable nuke for 10km.
what the hell shipment of explosives doing near petrol storage ?
Casualty reports will be very low at this point anyway because nobody knows who was in the blast area, nobody had enough time to contact their family members or wait for them to come home. Remember that early reports of the Nepal earthquake listed something like 80 dead.
I'm guessing the collapsing buildings are ones with severe construction faults.
I'm guessing the collapsing buildings are ones with severe construction faults.
It happened at a port.
vagabondarts
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Man my heart goes out to everyone affected, in large and small ways. 
mangochutney
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Yes, indeed. I would imagine the only way that is the case is if there's a lot of diabolical housing conditions.
nrvalleytime
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In a city of 7.5 million with a burgeoning middle class and rapidly developing infrastructure, we have every reason to believe such housing conditions exist.
The poor areas of China, especially around Beijing have homes that are practically held together by gum. I'm not surprised a shockwave could knock them down
maquiladora
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The source of that is a reporter on the scene for Chinese state broadcaster CCTV, Xing Zheming.
mangochutney
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Yeah, that's what I'm imagining - similar to the Nepal quake recently.
Turin Turambar
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Yep. Let's use a bit of common sense here. Building collapsing 10km away from the origin is worse than Hiroshima's bomb.
itchyass86
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This is terrible. People shouldn't have to experience a crisis this horrible. Ordinary folks were just living and out of nowhere an explosive force 1/3 the size of Hiroshima turns their lives upside-down.
I hope the folks who have survived are receiving immediate help.
I hope the folks who have survived are receiving immediate help.
So, one of the guys that filmed it had six seconds between the explosion and the sound. At a speed of sound of roughly 333m/s, that puts him around two kilometers from the explosion. His windows do not shatter. So if they report that ten kilometers away a building collapsed from the explosion, well, then the building must have been rather unstable to begin with.
Edit: After watching it again for the umpteenth time I think he had no glass installed in his windows (missing reflections). So that's not a good indicator. Still, I stand by my point, faulty as the numbers may be, at 10km distance from the explosion the house/whatever must have been quite wobbly already.
Edit: After watching it again for the umpteenth time I think he had no glass installed in his windows (missing reflections). So that's not a good indicator. Still, I stand by my point, faulty as the numbers may be, at 10km distance from the explosion the house/whatever must have been quite wobbly already.
TwEE-N-Toast
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Halifax was blown off the map awhile back from a single ship exploding. 2000 dead, 9000 injured.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5tU1CrXY-E
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halifax_Explosion
Maybe not collapsing, but I could see damage like broken/blown out windows up to that distance. That most likely where the most of the injured will come from.
That really shouldnt be happening if the structure was properly built. Not from a shock wave.
Please don't bring reason and science into this when there are foreign tweets from people we don't know saying things that are much more dramatic.
Well yeah, but you know, it's China
basically this, 10km is a bit of an overstatement
We're all talking about the same China here aren't we?
More Fun To Compute
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As it's China I wouldn't of thought news would be 100% accurate anyway.
Some parts of China are well developed, but that's just some..
As large and populated China is, you're definitely going to have more parts that are just falling apart and just not well kept. Seeing this explosion and the damage that it has done, I wouldn't be surprised if some places have leveled. Some people were fearing that there would be deaths, but realistically, it is inevitable.
BreezyLimbo
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That's scary as fuck.
a lot of subpar building materials and infrastructure can be blamed for mass loss of life. Even in gigantic explosions, it usually affects a few Kms in a city, but with the speed that China builds things and with loose regulations, it makes things ten times worse in a disaster. buildings in close proximity I can understand. that force is tremendous, but asd the shockwave dissipates outward it should not do THAT much damage like were seeing here. China is an up and coming country but my god they have got to build safer structures and modernize.
Chairman Yang
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I will be shocked if casualties don't end up in the thousands, but it's hard to determine the number of people near the blast.
It says taken to the hospital. Didn't say dead.
ISWThunder
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The image on the left appears to be brick masonry. If that shit isn't reinforced, it's an easy target for damage due to shockwaves and groundshake.
As tragic as it sounds, perhaps. Ground zero looks like it was absolutely vaporized; all those dock workers had no chance.
NullPointer
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Casualties != deaths
Tagesschau is quoting the Renmin Ribao paper that puts casualties at 300-400 wounded so far. Plus two missing, and six wounded firemen.
Veritigo_X
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Casualties doesn't mean dead.
Edit: backflip said it better below. Includes injuries and death.
Yes the Us needs to get its shit together too. The regulations are much better, but cities arent spending the necessary money. If a large explosion happened here again, structures would better survive it but there would still be massive infrastructure failures of power grids and water because of negligence. The kinds of explosive chemicals that are transported on a daily basis in the middle of millions of people would scare the shit out of you.
backflip10019
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Casualties includes those injured, not just those who have died.
ElectricBlanketFire
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Who would favorite that?
StopMakingSense
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Favorite on Twitter doesn't necessarily mean "Like"
People use it for different things. Plus bots.
User 100115
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Casualties is easier than saying 'dead and injured'.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass-casualty_incident
Quite a broad usage, actually.
edit: Actually linked the wrong wikipedia article, but it'll do lol
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