Footage captured when the blast in the Lebanese capital's port hit the Lau Medical Center-Rizk hospital shows the shockwave shattering windows and ripping doors from their frames. More than 150 people in the city were killed, thousands were injured and hundreds of thousands of homes damaged or destroyed
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Jonathan Morales
The Shockwave straight up blasted anything away
Foopa
Know
Raf OMic
Imagine what the shockwave of the tsar bomb would do ……
Veetina
gertjan van der meij shame on you ,,
dave Oliver
Raf OMic What relevance with tsar bomb, why mention it ?
issystar96
So all of this was the shock wave, or do you mean the first second things started moving was the shock wave? It’s so awful!
Rick Sanchez
Imagine coming out of the elevator and being like, what happened?
DPino Astudillo
what i mean by that is of the comment what they put imagine coming out of the elevator and being like, what happened?
El Conquistador
@Rick Sanchez Wrong, like totally
Ali Rebai
@Claire Chami How did that happen exactly? Did the elevator drop? What was their proximity to the explosion?
Koko Ji
🤣🤣
Craig Tucker
a là homer simpson
gaae2000
Another 5 months until this 2020 year is finally over!!!
G D
Big earthquake next
Danny Dechesseo
DaRealNetherBoy why 2029?
Ibrahim Osman
what if 2020 is a foreplay ?
Smurphenstein
Got to make it to the end of the year but who is to say 2021 will be any better?
秘 SYREX 秘
@Joel Rodrigues No!!! It’s your fault
Harry The Mouse
remember Jan1/2020 when we all said Happy New Year lol
razony
You mean folks still say, “Happy New Year?”
Talk about being PRANKED!
Griffith Williams
Remember the last third of 2019 in australia was just terrifying the wildfires
Chinese Virus
Jan 1st was happy first day of the year for me
Ranga Nt
@Joike Kakungu Being self motivated alone doesnt help… all these people are just not dead because they were meant to be!… Wen things are just not beyond your control, we can only hope and By the way keep safe.
karen vickery
In Australia the eastern coast was burning down on New Years eve, it was a sign of worse to come.
Nenett Ramsarran
The explosion was so powerful, that it was heard all the way in Cyprus. It’s 234km away from Lebanon. Rip to all those who, lost their lives.
Veetina
SpinazFou why turks ?????
someone _
@Ranga Nt 1 kilometers = 1.6 miles
Terrack 300
@MrFalcon2001 I can’t believe a lot of people like yourself are really asking the question, “was it a nuke”. Are you for real man Smfh.
Barbara_01
@SpinazFou Άστα να πάνε… Έχουμε όλα τα άλλα έχουμε και αυτούς. 😔😑
Barbara_01
@Veetina Because they keep harassing/provocating and violeting our airspace and territorial waters both in Cyprus and Greece, even to this very day… Also because of Attila ’74.
Enforcer
OMG and al those patients waiting there to get better and then this…..
Idon Wantella
What patients? In the entire video, you only see three people. Every hallway is empty. There is no-one outside.
My little Kendall fits right in
@Idon Wantella the aftermath news report, not everything is shown in the video.
hala
@Idon Wantella seventeen people died only in alroum hospital
Idon Wantella
@hala alroum?
Idon Wantella
@hala I saw the number of casualties on another video.
Joseph Astier
1:07 The seismic shock moves the computer mouse, and the machine wakes up. A few seconds later the air blast arrives.
Komkanit
It was like comparing the speed of thunder and lightning.
AGUNG UTAMA PUTRA
W I N D O W S .EXE
Donnie Montoya
@litbmeinnick the sound travels much faster through a solid medium than it does air and water
Aditya 2407
litbmeinnick air is way less denser hence why it takes time
Mansoor Ray
Yes true it’s very wierd
Guardian News
Beirut explosion: former port worker says fireworks stored in hangar ► https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/07/beirut-explosion-former-port-worker-says-fireworks-stored-in-hangar
‘We’re cursed’: shock and despair in Beirut as explosion devastates city ► https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/04/cursed-shock-despair-beirut-explosion-rocks-city-lebanon
lojosol
@Edward Fryc It was an explosion of Ammonium Nitrate, which had been improperly stored at the port of Beirut for 6 years after it was confiscated from an abandoned ship. Maintenance workers were performing repairs on the facility, and a fire broke out due to those repairs. The fire spread quickly to a stock of fireworks. the fireworks began going off in the facility, and eventually the fireworks/fire reached the Ammonium Nitrate, triggering the massive explosion that pretty much has heavily damaged the entire city of Beirut.
alraune 666
lojosol Reads like you believe everything the media write!
areUaware
This is what Limited Nuclear Warfare looks like.
Coming soon to a city near you…
अंकस सरमा
Wow Lebanon was a beautiful country 🌹
Saadia Ahmed
@Just Some Guy without a Mustache m
RealTimeX
Imagine being close to a glass
Valdecir Duarte Godoi
it’s horrible
Salma Hernández
No
John Walker
Close to a glass what you semi-literate half-wit
Clorox Bleach
@Marlin Anenome Poseidonth Darwin the 18th WHAT 🤔😂😂
Janeil Nold
Being next to glass is probably the worst place to be next to the blast site itself. Getting sprayed with shards of glass is how a lot of people get injured in explosion-related disasters.
X Calibus Gaming
*”This tells us that how fragile we are”*
Marley - ite
Eric : I could never understand why people in various countries would go out and vote for these tyrants.
What’s the point ? They don’t have your interest at heart.
Marley - ite
Conrad Hergott : I would figure the death toll to be much more than 150 considering many more are missing and trapped underground.
The Internet Troll
Just search. I hate the human race.
Frostmyr
are you interested in become a mech? join us today, leave the trappings of the flesh behind! be one of us today
gonçalo Baia
True, though it tells more about the destruction we can bring without even trying
That’s what’s very scary here
cannotthinkofoneatth
It’s still a miracle that the death toll is not too much.. they have some darn sturdy buildings too.. the blast was massive
TheMoopMonster
The publicly stated death toll is going to rise dramatically, when missing persons investigations conclude. 300,000+ displaced and 5000+ injured, it will be much higher than 150.
weee towd
well im sure theres more injured and dead that havent been found
Dave Fisher
I agree, this is very much like the Halifax Explosion in 1917, and it’s death toll was 2,000
Shereen Tohme
We don’t have any wooden buidings or houses, all is built with concrete.. this helped to lessen the casualties alot
Panos Rod
Except if you are one.
Yormina De Luna
CCTV cameras are tougher than the building itself…
jorgepeterbarton
Why didn’t they use cctv cameras as bricks?
King Scribe
Trees didn’t seem to care that much, just waving.
P-Law 2Sick
Because theyre fixed into the ceiling😂😂😂 havent you seen a semi spherical camera in ur life???
Kkkk Bbbb
This comment and “because theyre mounted into the ceiling”
… C’mon people, please think a bit more, common sense..
We don’t need someone to explain, just think for 5 seconds .. The answer isn’t either of those vapid statements
Renny Cepeda C.
the building? do you mean doors and glass windows?
MRNOBODY
That explosion was so powerful that even the computer got scared and opened up
Ahmar Ali
The mouse just vibrated
Unleashed EyeEatFire
Ahmar Ali duh…
Ahmar Ali
@Unleashed EyeEatFire i just joked 😂
ROHIT SHIVADAS
Hiroshima and Nagasaki 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂
MRNOBODY
@Ahmar Ali we people dont speak the language known as obvious logic here.
Shelbyville Rules
Computer monitor: “I sense a great disturbance in the Force”
N A
Yea, Shelbyville! Matters of The Force are NOT to be taken lightly
N A
Boo this man!
Ggang 2020
@NanoCheeZe MEQUAVIS I m Glad I found Your Comment.
dave Oliver
subham roy smaller screen next to it remained switched on unaffected throughout
Syeda Shah
Why u making jokes that ain’t nice?
Raccoon
Nobody is talking about the structural integrity of these buildings. They could all collapse like dominoes in 5 years.
Pedro Henrique R. de Oliveira
5 years?
Pretty much every tall building in around 0 to 1km from the blast is a goner and could collapse within this year, from 1km up 5km away, I’d give it two years max.
We are talking about a explosion equivalent to somewhere around 500 tons of TNT, or roughly 2100kg.m²/s² of energy, keep in mind that 500 tons of TNT is a conservative estimate according to specialists, and some of those are reporting that the explosion could have been equivalent to upwards of 1000 tons.
Either way, no building is structurally designed to withstand such forces.
So yeah, we can rule out pretty much every single building within a area of 5km radius of the 800 ft blast, and I’m being conservative with this estimate.
Emergency evacuations should be in order and the government is looking into a estimate of 300,000 city habitants becoming homelessness.
It’s a very depressing outlook and my heart and prayers goes to the people in Beirut who not only have to deal with political instability and the COVID-19 threat, but now also this new crisis.
usuário999
brasileiro na net
dave Oliver
Raccoon Tower block foundations must be in dodgy state, they all need to be taken down, demolished and rebuilt with stronger stuff.
Fastlane Garage
@Pedro Henrique R. de Oliveira reinforced concrete buildings don’t just “collapse” . Theres a lot of warning before this happens due to yield capacity of steel reinforcement
lamty101
This hospital is 2km from the explosion. Imagine those even closer
English Muffin
Those shattered glass probably hurt the most, if not deadly
lastvisions
Time to replace glass with plastic windows and use the glass for water instead. Makes sense. No chemicals in the water and safer windows.
Justin Anthony Sitjar
@lastvisions I agree, my moms friend died there because of glass shards.
tinkle think
@Justin Anthony Sitjar stop telling lies .. thanking you
lastvisions
@Justin Anthony Sitjar So sorry to hear that. My heartfelt condolences to your friend.
Justin Anthony Sitjar
@lastvisions thanks, to be honest i dont even know her, my mother just told me about her.
Unit #0x07
getting treated for COVID and get exploded, that sucks
Daniel Suarez
The place was empty
Soul Beatrix
And that’s not even the explosion, that’s the shockwave
Bird Tales Pakistan
This year is just getting worse and worse, isn’t it
Lil Pump
For uss
Sergio Correa
Indeed.
Apeman Commeth
I wonder how many people felt like they had just survived a terrorist attack!