oh well thats fine then just a massive store of benzene in an explosives warehousehttps://twitter.com/ragipsoylu/status/1290677055860944903?s=19 …
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LOL any farmboy you tell you grain elevators can go BOOM in a big way get a nice mix of air:flour dust and you have a recipe for disaster if mechanical parts in the elevator spark https://twitter.com/JD3nt0n/status/1290679666131365888?s=19 …
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assuming the big things that look like grain elevators are the grain elevators, doesn't look like they were near the epicenter of the big explosion
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yeah, the second explosion comes from a warehouse next to the silo complex. The bigger issue is that was probably of the cities grain storage, so we can tack 'bread shortage' onto the list of problems
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Suddenly, a Goat! Retweeted Habib Battah
Pretty sure the only thing still standing in these images was the silo complex, so didn't go uphttps://twitter.com/habib_b/status/1290691644170342401?s=20 …
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Habib Battah @habib_bAs smoke clears, port of Beirut devastated- added to casualties- billons of $ in imports including national wheat silos-seem to have been eviscerated. Homes shattered for miles. Damages will be massive and could not come at worse time when everyone is broke and hungry#Beirut pic.twitter.com/PlUU5IfM992 replies 0 retweets 2 likes -
Suddenly, a Goat! Retweeted Riam Dalati
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2.7kt NH4NO3, stored where that large hole is
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I know it's not TNT equivalent even so damn
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Replying to @eigenrobot @halvorz
Given the size (broke windows 10km away, 3.3 on the richter scale), it was probably into the kt TNT equivalent scale
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I mean Little Boy was only 15kt 
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yeah, smaller than that, but big WaPo has a guy estimating 'few hundred tons' https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2020/08/04/beirut-explosion-ammonium-nitrate/ …
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Replying to @Suddenly_a_Goat @eigenrobot
yeah I was thinking in the half a kt range maybe
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