we wouldve seen so much footage of suicide jumpers on 9/11 if smart phones existed then hell we mightve even gotten live streams from inside the building if they existed. imagine a live stream of someone in the building while it collapsed
12:11 is incredibly frightening to see. It must have been horrible to see the remains of the people in the explosion. The corpses are covered in dust and wounds. May those who perished rest in peace.
The one where it takes 30 seconds for the shockwave to hit, pretty surreal. Amazing. You can see the clouds being affected just before. The blast radius is insane.
@@gundam2jimmy Yes, for a nuke it would be small. But we talk here about some conventional stuff stored in a warehouse. For that it's a really big explosion.
This is one of the dangers of a terrorist nuclear strike. A lot of people will see the light coming from windows while because they're indoors. To find out what's going on, they'll rush to windows to see if they can see what caused the flash. They're far enough away not to have to deal with the tremendous heat and fire caused by the explosion but they will be at the windows when the blast wave arrives and blows those windows out and right into the their faces, necks, and upper bodies.
It’s been said before, but the amount of people who were completely unaware of how shockwaves work and how unsafe it is to be near windows was astonishing.
I know I’m my head the best thing to do if I saw a shockwave coming at me would be to put cover between me and it and cover my ears, but I don’t know if I would be able to remember that in the moment
6:03 That maid deserves a medal & a big salary raise. The moment the shockwave hit, she did not flinch but instead flew into superhero mode and grabbed the kid so fast & ran to safety.
May all those who died that day rest in peace, and may all those who suffered trauma, both physically and mentally from that day, find some peace and joy in their lives. Awful, awful tragedy.
@@birgir3399 “at least 218 deaths, 7,000 injuries, and US$15 billion in property damage, as well as leaving an estimated 300,000 people homeless.” - Wikipedia
@@skbme50it left a crater so big right where the chemical reaction/explosion happened, that ocean water filled in the hole of the crater. The universe we live in is so fragile, and so is life.
@@skbme50it wasn’t smoke, that colored ‘smoke’ is chemical fumes, the orange/red color. But the burning before the explosion was smoke, the popping and cracking you can see are small chemical explosions it’s crazy seeing it go from that small to so big in a matter of seconds.
a few things i took away from this compilation. 1. its shocking how many people watched the shockwave and stood by their window waiting to hear a boom. 2. its amazing how many people film things like this, one of the shots showing the sky and the clouds moving was completely mind blowing. 3. i hadnt seen any of the aftermath videos, i have seen many of the actual explosion but the aftermath shots really changed my perspective about what actually happened to the people living there. the news really likes to focus on the actual boom and not the aftermath. 4. what does rebuilding from that even look like.
@@dmaeroqueenfor some of the videos sure. But in one of the first ones the guy easily has 5+ seconds before he shockwave hits. No shot am I staying on a balcony recoding it. Edit: the person at 4:16 is a perfect example of what to do and he has even less time.
The question is, would you have predicted or consider, that a shockwave that wide range would occur. I'm pretty sure at that time, Most, if not, all people just think of it as a normal fire. In fact, im100% sure that no one even knows, what the cause of the fire is. So how the hell do you expect a shockwave might gonna happen?
@@Gwaponame sure at first you’d think it’s a fire, but that’s only when it’s a fire. You can clearly see in the example I gave above that the guy recording sees the explosion and starts running away to get behind a wall. There were also people who just stood there recording for up to 10 seconds after the actual explosion. I understand some people not moving but that many just standing there recording is wild
The second, MASSIVE explosion with the huge shock wave took place about 30-45 seconds after the first explosion and cloud appeared, just enough time for people all over the city to notice and get their phones out to record it. Pretty much perfect timing for a mass social media event. Peace to the victims and the survivors.
@@beckyekg the explosion was from a port storage facility that stored ammonium nitrate next to firework stuff. the firework started to burn because of someone welding close to it. the explosion of the firework caused the ammonium nitrate to burn and explode aswell. the first explosion is the firework and the second is the ammonium nitrate. If I remember correctly the ammonium nitrate was stored there because the ship that brought it there was abandoned and then no one felt responsible for what happened to the ammonium nitrate. So it stayed in that storage for 7 years
In that moment? Absolutely not and you could see why. I bet seeing that explosion can make a person just stand there in shock because of what he actually saw
The shockwave on these videos are freaking impressive...the ones that get it coming on the water,that really far one at 3:00 is the most impressive...the way it changes the clouds,the time it takes for the shockwave to actually hit that far,the sound...simply impressive power.And that guy at 1:45?...he was mad close to it,I wonder if he survived.Thank you very much for sharing this.
by @naufaldarda193 - "In reality, he survived, but with extremely severe injuries. It's important to note that it was the first explosion, in the second explosion, he was very lucky to be behind concrete that almost pinned him.". I don't know if this information is true, but that's what the guy responded to another comment below.
The Shockwave is what's most impressive about these videos. And not a single person recording anticipated the amount of force it brings. If it's moving clouds drop the camera and run .
it's still in my memory, I can't forget how my ears kept ringing for 5 minutes at least and how the shockwave actually poushed me to ground like a bull slamed into my body.
i remeber coming back to beirut after this,volunteering where i could and helping families.the hospital where i was born was shatterred,my old school was shattered. seeing beirut like this truly broke my heart
@@jotaro_kujo_joestarwhat? i was referring to the fact that he came back to help. which was nice of him??? i dont get your problem learn understanding context kid
@@lauriosaurusplayz6028the last thing said was that it broke his heart seeing his childhood place like this. When you say nice without context, you are referring to the last thing they said. It's how conversations work. If you want to say about the first thing then mention it. Like: "It's nice you wanted to help them out after the explosion."
@@BallsRng Those aren't _just_ rumors, it's a confirmed fact that it was heard all the way here People really underestimate the sheer power of blastwaves with the only exceptions being nuclear blasts
witnessed this when i was 14. im pretty convinced im over it now but can't help but get goosebumps from rewatching now. rest in peace to all those who died.
Being able to see the pressure wave push all the moister out of the area and dissipate the clouds is frighteningly amazing, and watching the sound travel through the clouds that it doesn't destroy is like watching a sonic boom head your way.
I was wondering what that big cloud was that appears all of a sudden. That’s the explosion actually pushing the moisture in the air away? That’s definitely awesomely powerful. Is that also what you see in nuclear explosions, except of course that there’s also a great deal of super heating going on there as well?
@@ethatsgoodwine5888 Here's what I think it is - it's nearly all to do with pressure, and how it affects the air temperature. The heat from the explosion is not the biggest factor when far away. When the pressure wave is ripping through the sky, it is causing compression of the air in front of it, which causes that air to heat up. When the wave has moved through, the air rapidly decompresses and therefore cools rapidly. Cold air can't hold as much water vapour, so it is forced back to liquid form as tiny droplets forming the visible clouds behind the pressure wave. I think that's what is causing those clouds to disappear and reform as the wave moves through, a phenomenon known as adiabatic cooling
1:453:22 most of the videos feel like watching somebody experience a tragedy. But *these ones,* these ones feels like watching the last moments of a doomed man. Someone who may be no different to us, but were unlucky enough to be too close to escape ground zero. Knowing their inevitable doom, they record their final moments for us and their loved ones to hopefully see. My condolences go to all the families that suffered in this tragedy.
the person at 1:45 got himself in a fireball, it is almost impossible he survived without MAJOR MAJOR MAJORRR injuries ( unfortunately he probably didn’t survive since the explosion recorded in that video was only the first one, not the second, so if he was still there, he would probably have been blown to pieces by the 2nd explosion )
The one that scared me the most was the starting at 2:37, the amount of time from blast to audible sound, the ripples in the clouds, then how loud the sound was once it finally reached the camera. I couldn't imagine what the person filming was thinking.
It was the largest non-nuclear blast in the last 50 years, and was the equivalent of the blast at Hiroshima just non-nuclear, though, it must’ve been absolutely terrifying
As someone who lives next to a power plant that did explode on a smaller scale, this is insanely horrifying to think that we live so close to these places that could explode at any moment. My heart goes out to all the victims of this tragedy.
The person driving the car on the bridge has some very telling footage of this destructive blast. Shattering auto glass from more than a thousand feet away is impressive. Also, it shows how little time there is to even shield your face or that of a loved one when a blast wave is ripping through.
one of the most chilling parts of explosions (in my opinion) is if your on the water you can actually see the shockwave head towards you before your boat is tipped over (depending on how close and how heavy the boat is)
As terrible as it was, the Beirut blast was less than 2% the size of the Hiroshima bomb, which had the explosive power of 15,000 tons of TNT. The B83 nuclear warhead, the largest in the current U.S. arsenal, has 80 times the explosive power of Hiroshima's Little Boy, at 1.2 million tons of TNT equivalent.
@@Celixir my point is that explosion was an accident due to negligence of safety. The nukes that were 98%+ times bigger, were no accident. And there are 13000+ nuclear warheads pointed at major cities. Its only to put into perspective, the precarious position we are constantly in, due to nuclear weapons.
I can't believe this event happened three years ago, it still feels strangely recent... like a year ago, and to see that this is recorded, it's seriously terrifying.
6:42 an excellent demonstration of how intense explosions like that (technically any explosion) work. A brief sudden hit of air pressure, followed by a sudden loss of pressure in the opposite direction. You can see similar occurances in nuclear explosion test videos.
the over/under pressure cycle in the shock is milliseconds, must less than a frame. You're talking about the blast wind, which also cycles, but on timescales phones can see.
Ikr It almost looks like the person taking the video was on the roof of the adjacent building looking down at the fire 😳😳😳 Id never seen that footage before. Definitely the closest to ground zero that I've seen
@@Hubert127"In reality, he survived, but with extremely severe injuries. It's important to note that it was the first explosion, in the second explosion, he was very lucky to be behind concrete that almost pinned him."
Not really. She should have reacted when the building was shaking but instead she went on vacuuming as if shaking buildings were the most normal thing ever.
1:46 was for sure the worst.. there is no way that person survived. How did they get that footage?!?! he was infront of the explosion he was really just inside of it.. Rest in peace to that guy/women
I keep coming back to this. Something about it sticks so strongly in the memory. More so than 9/11 did in some ways. Though admittedly I was fairly young when that one happened. It's odd how certain events stick with us and others fade quickly into vague fragments. It is both morbidly fascinating and heartbreaking watching things like this. I feel so bad for those who lost their lives or were injured.
"I keep coming back to this. Something about it sticks so strongly in the memory. More so than 9/11 did in some ways. Though admittedly I was fairly young when that one happened." So, to refresh your young memory: ua-cam.com/video/wRfphCLtUUI/v-deo.html&ab_channel=fresnosean379
2:08 the sound must come from the earth and water being shaken and not from the air, as the shockwave hits a few seconds later. That sound is scary. Wow.
In every video you can see that everything shaked before shockwave hit through air. As boss said shockwave goes much, much faster even in water. If you watch video at 2:38 you will start hearing rumbling sound before that shockwave hits... absolutely scary.
The sound hits afterwards because they are far from the source of the noise. Light travels faster than sound, thus you see it before you hear it, unless you're close enough for the senses not to perceive the sound delay.
i think moments like these remind everyone that we might have different cultures, religions, languages etc but we all still share something in common. We're all human AND we react to catastrophic events the same way. We start documenting the event and start screaming "OMG and WTF"
Hearing the screams of the people watching it happen from afar, yelling “Oh my God!”, I can’t help but tear up thinking about all the people who died almost instantly with thousands if not millions of people watching
Just yesterday I saw one of those viral Tik Tok videos where they ask someone if they want free money or if they want to double it and send it along to the next person. The guy being offered money was a severely brain damaged man in a wheelchair who could barely speak. He chose to pass the money along to other people because he wanted to make people smile. When asked how he became disabled, he said he was near ground zero in Beirut. He said he was just happy to be alive because he literally died and was brought back three times. ..and he wanted to share that happiness with others. It really put some things into perspective..
@@ernestkhalimov5371 this is nothing compared to the weakest of nuclear bomb....this is just an equivalent of 0.08 kt of tnt compare that to the bomb dropped on hiroshima which is 15 KT of tnt 150x stronger than this
The footage you see there was the first explosion. Supposedly he was flung away behind concrete and survived the second explosion. I don't know how he would though. The aftermath shows the buildings leveled.
it is building new clouds close behind the shockwave because of compression and a compression follows an expansion which results in a temperature drop and the water vapor in the air condenses for a really short time
It’s crazy that this happened Soo recently still. It’s also insane that with how fast the shockwave is, some people couldn’t even react when looking at it with their phone it was so quick😢
What’s more insane are how utterly stupid and thick the people who stored tons and tons and tons of volatile chemicals next to each other, and then tons and tons and tons of fireworks next to them. They were pretty lucky the explosion wasn’t any bigger.
@@tylermallory2504 yeahhh…. It’s not everyday you get a visual representation of the shit tho so keep that in mind. Of course it’s going at the speed of sound, that’s the whole point of it going fast
Jesus. When I was 7 years old, a natural gas storage plant several miles away from my house blew up. It was the loudest thing I've ever heard. It was probably 1/50th the power of this explosion. That is just enormous amounts of energy being released. Incredible.
@@Pet_Hedgehog what the fuck dude? your seriously laughing over someone literally watching + experiencing a life threatening event which they could have died in, you are actually sick in the mind
@@wolfauuwell anything can become fascinating if you think deep about it, just like how can cameras and our brain record the images(reality) inside a chip. You're literally watching past now
Kudos to everyone who knew enough to turn their phone. Also thanks to the guy who put the red circle on the video; without that I never would have noticed THE BIGGEST EXPLOSION EVER.
300.000 homeless after this explosion? Bro its not like 100.000 houses were destroyed there. Where you get this number from? Maybe there are 300.000 people with broken windows but never ever the explosion destroyed that many houses.
they couldn't grasp the power of what they just saw. most of them didn't expect their windows to get destroyed. some of them couldn't take their eyes of the beauty. others were simply frozen in fear.
Watching this again I can't help but feel so sad for the innocent people who were working and making a living and it being their final day alive because of others' incompetence
Realize this guys, according to some records and personal testimony afterwards, there was WAY more materials there that could have exploded but wasn't in a correct mixture amount. This could have been much much worse.
The shot where you can see an entire bridge of cars being destroyed is REALLY upsetting to watch. I take the bus every day so watching the bus stuck there honestly freaked me the hell out.
The scariest thing about this is the fact of how far some of these people are and they still got blowen around like a rag doll so just thing of people that were even closer so sad to everyone that lost someone that day💔😢
As an American, we did. 22 years ago, but far worse. Even though everyone just wants to make fun of our suffering, I would never joke about this. As a Christian, I was praying for the Lebanese on that day.
@@phaexalTelling someone to "get over it" when they've experienced trauma is very dismissive and ignorant. Please don't tell that to someone who has experienced trauma. "Getting over" such a traumatic experience is not that simple.
I can imagine the kid looking through a window at this wouldn’t be doing too much looking afterwards considering the glass from the window exploding in their face. You wouldn’t want to imagine being any where near an explosion of this magnitude
It's noticeable, that many people do not aware of the impact of blast wave. Many of them have seconds to escape, but they still filming near glass windows.
The thing that you gotta realise about this as well, is the sheer terror of what you must be thinking. To those who didn't see the smoke before or didn't know what it could've been, this could've felt looked like a nuke. Imagine thinking that, and likely not knowing for an hour or two after. I'd be shitting it and making sure I got out of the dangerous radiation zone, just in case. Absolute tragedy and it took 200 lives as well.
What I find impressive about this is how little buildings were actually destroyed or rendered irreparable by that shockwave, modern engineering is amazing.
Ground zero was surrounded by a huge reinforced concrete structure and a LOT of energy went into the ground. Even with THOSE factors buildings were demolished and other buildings were severely damaged. AND this was only estimated at 300 tons to 1.5 kilotons MAX tnt equalivaent. The average US nuke is 300 - 455 KILOTONS. If a 455 kiloton nuke exploded in that same position Beirut would be a smoking crater.
I love how today we can document things that we only could see in movies or in times of war. It's chilling to see and hear the blast as it happens in real life.
I like to look at clouds. I can’t imagine ever looking at clouds and then just seeing them essentially disappear in moments for many square miles. Crazy.
videos like this always make me realise how few people are aware of simple but essential survival advice like staying away from glass windows after an explosion. easiest way to go blind or worse yet dead
Inexcusable for so much volatile, hazardous material to be stored so recklessly. The unfathomably stupid ignorance of the people responsible for this ignorance, maybe arrogance, is not surpassed by this explosion. Peace and prayers to all who've suffered and continue to be traumatized by this disaster.
Some people just pulled out their phone to film a big fire unknowingly it going to explode the very next seconds giving them no time to escape. Absolutely terrifying
2:56 is one of the coolest things I've ever seen captured on camera. I'm not trying to discount tragedy, of course, but just look at the distortion in the clouds...
The resilience of the smartphone is astonishing, survives where people can't
I see you everywhere man
Nokia
@@Astreious 3310
yeah samsung phones are pretty good
@@princeofdarknessxyz1 9:00
It’s so weird but also kind of surreal to see the perspectives of so many people all at the same time during such a massive tragedy.
The wonders of social media.
How is it surreal ?
@@GooseGumlizzard Also ? here. It is (was) real. Like real real. Like in reality. In the real reality. Not the matrix reality.
we wouldve seen so much footage of suicide jumpers on 9/11 if smart phones existed then hell we mightve even gotten live streams from inside the building if they existed. imagine a live stream of someone in the building while it collapsed
@@hinata750 What kind of dumbass would live stream instead of trying to escape?
12:11 is incredibly frightening to see. It must have been horrible to see the remains of the people in the explosion. The corpses are covered in dust and wounds. May those who perished rest in peace.
There were 3 tons of ammonium nitrate in that port, think that in one port in my country 87 tons of ammonium nitrate are stored.
2700 tons*
2:11
2:11 2:12 2:12
The one where it takes 30 seconds for the shockwave to hit, pretty surreal. Amazing. You can see the clouds being affected just before. The blast radius is insane.
Amazing?
Tiny compared to nukes.
Tsar Bomba caused 3rd degree burns at 100 miles, and broke windows at over 600.
@@gundam2jimmy Yes, for a nuke it would be small. But we talk here about some conventional stuff stored in a warehouse. For that it's a really big explosion.
This is one of the dangers of a terrorist nuclear strike. A lot of people will see the light coming from windows while because they're indoors. To find out what's going on, they'll rush to windows to see if they can see what caused the flash. They're far enough away not to have to deal with the tremendous heat and fire caused by the explosion but they will be at the windows when the blast wave arrives and blows those windows out and right into the their faces, necks, and upper bodies.
That is a missile.
It’s been said before, but the amount of people who were completely unaware of how shockwaves work and how unsafe it is to be near windows was astonishing.
Fr every time I’m yelling at the screen at these people
It may seem that way since the people smart enough to understand were not the ones filming the explosion, although its still too many people
i feel like most didnt expect it, or rlly forget that shock waves exist
I know I’m my head the best thing to do if I saw a shockwave coming at me would be to put cover between me and it and cover my ears, but I don’t know if I would be able to remember that in the moment
Tbf the shock of the whole thing will just keep most people standing there frozen and you only have 5 seconds max to actually react
6:03 That maid deserves a medal & a big salary raise. The moment the shockwave hit, she did not flinch but instead flew into superhero mode and grabbed the kid so fast & ran to safety.
That was impressive
It could be her mom
She needs the Family Guy Consuela metal with clusters
Realistically, if you're going to live in a place like Beirut or Derry, you've probably got an emergency action plan idling in the back of your head.
She should take the kid at 6:04 not after all windows shattered... Is is not normal that whole build shakes.
Rip to all those who lost their lives in this horrible event. That it could have been prevented is shameful
Yes same here. To me Is it really upsetting. How the heck there where doing that. Just saddens me so much.
218 people died
heroshima-
@@iampresentinyourlifeiseeyou NO NO NO NO
It split the sky open and the shockwave knocked nearly all of the people filming it to the ground. Absolutely terrifying.
Some of them weren't knocked. The shockwave arrives with the boom. Some of them were diving for cover.
Conquerors halo that's what I'm reminded off
And it wasn’t EVEN close to any weaponized or used nukes thus far 🤦🏾♂️
@@AB-bu9goI swear man, humanity’s gonna kill itself
It didn't split the sky open. I just completely obliterated the ozone layer.
May all those who died that day rest in peace, and may all those who suffered trauma, both physically and mentally from that day, find some peace and joy in their lives. Awful, awful tragedy.
R.I.P 🙏
@@birgir3399 “at least 218 deaths, 7,000 injuries, and US$15 billion in property damage, as well as leaving an estimated 300,000 people homeless.”
- Wikipedia
5:41 OH BOY!!
@@peterjonston5905 If you're gonna die you better drop a funny one liner
This happens now every day with 10s of thousands of soldiers in Ukraine!🙏
that few seconds before the shockwave hits is absolutely terrifying
bro that smoke thing literally annihilated the buidlings near the explosion its actually terifying...
Even more terrifying when it seems like a nuclear bomb @@skbme50
@@skbme50it left a crater so big right where the chemical reaction/explosion happened, that ocean water filled in the hole of the crater. The universe we live in is so fragile, and so is life.
@@skbme50it wasn’t smoke, that colored ‘smoke’ is chemical fumes, the orange/red color. But the burning before the explosion was smoke, the popping and cracking you can see are small chemical explosions it’s crazy seeing it go from that small to so big in a matter of seconds.
Why do I find this. Entertaining?
a few things i took away from this compilation.
1. its shocking how many people watched the shockwave and stood by their window waiting to hear a boom.
2. its amazing how many people film things like this, one of the shots showing the sky and the clouds moving was completely mind blowing.
3. i hadnt seen any of the aftermath videos, i have seen many of the actual explosion but the aftermath shots really changed my perspective about what actually happened to the people living there. the news really likes to focus on the actual boom and not the aftermath.
4. what does rebuilding from that even look like.
Glad to know you could have reacted better/faster in a second or less, superman.
@@dmaeroqueenfor some of the videos sure. But in one of the first ones the guy easily has 5+ seconds before he shockwave hits. No shot am I staying on a balcony recoding it.
Edit: the person at 4:16 is a perfect example of what to do and he has even less time.
The question is, would you have predicted or consider, that a shockwave that wide range would occur. I'm pretty sure at that time, Most, if not, all people just think of it as a normal fire. In fact, im100% sure that no one even knows, what the cause of the fire is.
So how the hell do you expect a shockwave might gonna happen?
@@Gwaponame sure at first you’d think it’s a fire, but that’s only when it’s a fire. You can clearly see in the example I gave above that the guy recording sees the explosion and starts running away to get behind a wall. There were also people who just stood there recording for up to 10 seconds after the actual explosion. I understand some people not moving but that many just standing there recording is wild
Its easy when you watch on a video. In real life you will shit your pants way before you decide to stay out of windows
It’s terrifying how well documented this event was
The second, MASSIVE explosion with the huge shock wave took place about 30-45 seconds after the first explosion and cloud appeared, just enough time for people all over the city to notice and get their phones out to record it. Pretty much perfect timing for a mass social media event. Peace to the victims and the survivors.
I'm thinking the victims know what this was and who is responsible for it. You never know what they might do at some point.
@@handlenumber707I think it was an explosion at a refinery or something due to bad safety practices.
@@beckyekg Isn't that what you're supposed to think? Of course, clearly that's NOT what it was.
@@beckyekg the explosion was from a port storage facility that stored ammonium nitrate next to firework stuff. the firework started to burn because of someone welding close to it. the explosion of the firework caused the ammonium nitrate to burn and explode aswell. the first explosion is the firework and the second is the ammonium nitrate. If I remember correctly the ammonium nitrate was stored there because the ship that brought it there was abandoned and then no one felt responsible for what happened to the ammonium nitrate. So it stayed in that storage for 7 years
6:24 What a great father, still comforting his son even after the shockwave
What about the black lady who scooped up the fumble and ran for a touchdown.
@@Frip36 Scooped up the fumble and ran for a touchdown??
@@skittlesarenotblue yes, scooped up the fumble and ran for a touchdown
@@Frip36her split second reaction was amazing
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Unbelievable how few people are aware about shockwaves.
Agreed! The moment I would have seen that explosion I would have ducked for cover like reflex.
I believe it's something like the survivor bias. (the recorder bias?) People who know about it (probably a majority) didn't even try to record it.
I think people are aware of it, most were just shocked at the moment and couldn't react in seconds
In that moment? Absolutely not and you could see why. I bet seeing that explosion can make a person just stand there in shock because of what he actually saw
@@phil_5430 Yeah. People either fight, flee, or freeze when presented with danger. It's hard to know which one you are until it happens.
The woman who grabbed the baby immediately has great reflexes. So glad they both survived
@@High-testosterone-human.bro
@@High-testosterone-human. not ok man
@@High-testosterone-human. bro..??
@@High-testosterone-human.Well it wasn’t funny????
@@High-testosterone-human.unfunny joke
The shockwave on these videos are freaking impressive...the ones that get it coming on the water,that really far one at 3:00 is the most impressive...the way it changes the clouds,the time it takes for the shockwave to actually hit that far,the sound...simply impressive power.And that guy at 1:45?...he was mad close to it,I wonder if he survived.Thank you very much for sharing this.
Unlikely he survived considering it devistated places further away than him. But hopefully he had a miracle happen
Shinra Tensei.....
@@lucasheseding9620 cmon not here narutards.. may his soul be at peace
by @naufaldarda193 - "In reality, he survived, but with extremely severe injuries. It's important to note that it was the first explosion, in the second explosion, he was very lucky to be behind concrete that almost pinned him.". I don't know if this information is true, but that's what the guy responded to another comment below.
Doubt if he/she survived
At 2:58 you can literally see the ripple of the pressure wave approaching in the sky just before it hits. Absolutely wild.
It took over 20 seconds from the explosion to the shock wave arriving. Wild!
And the sound was still LOUD! imagine being just a mile away!
wild
So far
wild
6:13 that motherly instinct is crazy not even a second after the shockwave she took her. I hope for all the families who experienced this tragedy.
It was a maid
@@carnap355bro moms clean too
@@carnap355mom is mom
Thats a maid im sure of it
Well either way if it is a maid or a mom still fast reflexes.
The Shockwave is what's most impressive about these videos. And not a single person recording anticipated the amount of force it brings. If it's moving clouds drop the camera and run .
Why drop the camera? Why not run with camera? Camera is expensive
run where? maybe close you ears and duck.
LMAO yeah ima outrun this shockwave... godspeed
бежать? и далеко ты от волны убежишь?
Yup
What is astonishing is that some people in the buildings right next to the explosion survived. Unbelievable.
it's still in my memory, I can't forget how my ears kept ringing for 5 minutes at least and how the shockwave actually poushed me to ground like a bull slamed into my body.
You alright?
@@MonkeyKingSSBM yeah I'm alright, thank you :), but i was lucky.. Because I was relatively far from it, couple of kilometers.
@@touficjammoul4482KILOMETERS
damn...
You are incredibly lucky for that to be temporary. for some, that ringing never went away.
@@static7985 ive been near a much smaller explosion and suffer from permenent tinnitus ughhhh
i remeber coming back to beirut after this,volunteering where i could and helping families.the hospital where i was born was shatterred,my old school was shattered.
seeing beirut like this truly broke my heart
nice
@@lauriosaurusplayz6028bro wdym by nice lots of people were dead wtf
@@jotaro_kujo_joestarwhat? i was referring to the fact that he came back to help. which was nice of him??? i dont get your problem learn understanding context kid
@@lauriosaurusplayz6028the last thing said was that it broke his heart seeing his childhood place like this. When you say nice without context, you are referring to the last thing they said. It's how conversations work. If you want to say about the first thing then mention it. Like: "It's nice you wanted to help them out after the explosion."
You’re a good person may life treat you with kindness
The fact that nearest buildings were ripped and no one managed to hold the camera steady shows just how strong the shockwave was
Exactly, like 3:03, he was very far and still shook, and there are rumors that say it could be heard from Cyprus.
@@BallsRng Those aren't _just_ rumors, it's a confirmed fact that it was heard all the way here
People really underestimate the sheer power of blastwaves with the only exceptions being nuclear blasts
@@WojtekXD-bx7jb oh, ok.
the fact on how close we were to the explosion at 1:47 is just crazy R.I.P. the person filming.
Yeah, that was scary. Look at the bottom the smokes coming out outside.😨😨😨😨😨😰 1:49
witnessed this when i was 14. im pretty convinced im over it now but can't help but get goosebumps from rewatching now. rest in peace to all those who died.
hope you’re doing a little more okay now, so sorry you had to go through that
Sorry to hear that. Were you close to the explosion and are you still in libanon? If so, how is the city doing?
Bro I am from the other side of the world, from Mexico, and seeing this gives me goose bumps.
I hope the city is ok now
I'm wondering what was the furthest from the epicenter that it killed someone?
that's horrible. i hope you are over it, rip to the innocent lives lost
Being able to see the pressure wave push all the moister out of the area and dissipate the clouds is frighteningly amazing, and watching the sound travel through the clouds that it doesn't destroy is like watching a sonic boom head your way.
I was wondering what that big cloud was that appears all of a sudden. That’s the explosion actually pushing the moisture in the air away? That’s definitely awesomely powerful. Is that also what you see in nuclear explosions, except of course that there’s also a great deal of super heating going on there as well?
putin sie tego boi
moister?
@@ethatsgoodwine5888 Here's what I think it is - it's nearly all to do with pressure, and how it affects the air temperature. The heat from the explosion is not the biggest factor when far away. When the pressure wave is ripping through the sky, it is causing compression of the air in front of it, which causes that air to heat up. When the wave has moved through, the air rapidly decompresses and therefore cools rapidly. Cold air can't hold as much water vapour, so it is forced back to liquid form as tiny droplets forming the visible clouds behind the pressure wave. I think that's what is causing those clouds to disappear and reform as the wave moves through, a phenomenon known as adiabatic cooling
@@ethatsgoodwine5888 It's called wilson cloud and it often happens when an explosion is this big.
2:59 watching the clouds move right before the sound reaches them is so incredibly cool and horrifying.
Yeah
Cool and impressive.
Es increíble
I can't believe how loud that explosion was from that far away from the impact zone
shut up racist
1:45 3:22 most of the videos feel like watching somebody experience a tragedy. But *these ones,* these ones feels like watching the last moments of a doomed man. Someone who may be no different to us, but were unlucky enough to be too close to escape ground zero. Knowing their inevitable doom, they record their final moments for us and their loved ones to hopefully see.
My condolences go to all the families that suffered in this tragedy.
good comment, however, the person recording at 1:45 survived with major injuries.
@@michew5451 I don't believe that, he was in a crater after that explosion
@@michew5451that was the first explosion
the person at 1:45 got himself in a fireball, it is almost impossible he survived without MAJOR MAJOR MAJORRR injuries ( unfortunately he probably didn’t survive since the explosion recorded in that video was only the first one, not the second, so if he was still there, he would probably have been blown to pieces by the 2nd explosion )
Not only the fireball, if you look at pictures taken afterwards he is literally in ground zero of a crater@@z_skafi
2:37 The way the pressure wave moves the clouds is just mind blowing
Must've been powerful
It's beautiful but extremely powerful and loud I wonder how many people lost their hearing to the boom
it's not moving them, it's making them, and also evaporating them. e.g Wilson Cone.
Why mind blowing? That's just how physic works
@@nbgforlive physic are important stay in school kids
The one that scared me the most was the starting at 2:37, the amount of time from blast to audible sound, the ripples in the clouds, then how loud the sound was once it finally reached the camera. I couldn't imagine what the person filming was thinking.
It was the largest non-nuclear blast in the last 50 years, and was the equivalent of the blast at Hiroshima just non-nuclear, though, it must’ve been absolutely terrifying
i dont understand why she is laughing all the time at 10:15 ?!?? Can someone explain this? I would love to know what was so funny about that? o.O
@@doctorjawline7608 bruh she's crying- it's just in arabic
@@BigMac4459 What? Arabic crying is english laughing?
@@doctorjawline7608 you a lil slow but its igh
As someone who lives next to a power plant that did explode on a smaller scale, this is insanely horrifying to think that we live so close to these places that could explode at any moment. My heart goes out to all the victims of this tragedy.
Agreed😢
I understand, I live next to a volcano mate the best I can do is just living.
7:07 did she said allahabar?
@@CarlosAlbertoGarcíaJiménez yup i live in an ag town w a lot of that ammonium nitrate. There are risks everywhere when you start thinking about it.
@@I_have_nothing1-1yes?
that few seconds before the shockwave hits is absolutely terrifying. The resilience of the smartphone is astonishing, survives where people can't.
Bro just stole 2 comments and merged them
@@GuiDuckzfrrr
The person driving the car on the bridge has some very telling footage of this destructive blast. Shattering auto glass from more than a thousand feet away is impressive. Also, it shows how little time there is to even shield your face or that of a loved one when a blast wave is ripping through.
one of the most chilling parts of explosions (in my opinion) is if your on the water you can actually see the shockwave head towards you before your boat is tipped over (depending on how close and how heavy the boat is)
With this explosion some people saw the ground cave in and collapse like a wave before being fcking evaporated it's terrifying.
I wonder if the hit would have been avoidable if you were underwater. Would it have had the same impact?
@@purple66666a little below the surface and it'll pass over you. Shockwaves don't really transfer between water and air very much
@@TrickMirror however if the explosion does impact the water is the last place you wanna be
*you're
Even now, almost three years later and sitting snuggly by my computer on another continent, that blast SCARES THE F-CK OUT OF ME.
Came here to say the exact-same thing.
Росия сила👌
As terrible as it was, the Beirut blast was less than 2% the size of the Hiroshima bomb, which had the explosive power of 15,000 tons of TNT. The B83 nuclear warhead, the largest in the current U.S. arsenal, has 80 times the explosive power of Hiroshima's Little Boy, at 1.2 million tons of TNT equivalent.
@@nsagoogle9581the Beirut explosion was the largest non nuclear explosion in the world.
@@Celixir my point is that explosion was an accident due to negligence of safety. The nukes that were 98%+ times bigger, were no accident. And there are 13000+ nuclear warheads pointed at major cities.
Its only to put into perspective, the precarious position we are constantly in, due to nuclear weapons.
i can imagine the shock wave feels like the force trying to snap you in every direction in a split second and if you're close enough it actually does
I can't believe this event happened three years ago, it still feels strangely recent... like a year ago, and to see that this is recorded, it's seriously terrifying.
Wait, THREE years? Ok ._.
my family and i physically escaped it, we are traumatized for life. these events don't function on a timeline base. they never truly leave you...
6:42 an excellent demonstration of how intense explosions like that (technically any explosion) work.
A brief sudden hit of air pressure, followed by a sudden loss of pressure in the opposite direction.
You can see similar occurances in nuclear explosion test videos.
HAHA the boss man got up like he was finna go out there and fight the explosion for fucking up his door
the over/under pressure cycle in the shock is milliseconds, must less than a frame. You're talking about the blast wind, which also cycles, but on timescales phones can see.
12:06 shocked me, I just wanted to see the explosion but this really put into perspective how awful it really was.
Hits worse seeing the dead bodys , messed up realising how much people made fun of this back whenit happened
Yeah, I have seen a lot of angles of the explosion but never the aftermath videos. It is extremely surreal
I still can’t comprehend the fact that those are people
I thought it was some sort of dummy… I hope it was dummy….
@@Skjsjwndidolf8173 nope, real dead people
There is no way the cameraman at 1:49 survived
Highly doubtful.
Ikr
It almost looks like the person taking the video was on the roof of the adjacent building looking down at the fire 😳😳😳
Id never seen that footage before. Definitely the closest to ground zero that I've seen
He prove that cameraman never dies😂
@@Hubert127"In reality, he survived, but with extremely severe injuries. It's important to note that it was the first explosion, in the second explosion, he was very lucky to be behind concrete that almost pinned him."
You're right. He's ghost probably uploaded it
The shot at 2:06 is just insane. How parts of the building are flying off due to the shockwave,
sadly someone who was filming that is died most likely
@@pauliusdrusys9866 No the fatality rate was extremel low for such an event
@@pauliusdrusys9866 how did they post it if they died bro ☠. their family would never release the footage of them dying
@@thebirdfromtwitter1249probably livestream on social media or the phone is found by someone else
@@thebirdfromtwitter1249 it is a live stream clip...
3:00 amazing how you can see the shockwave moving the clouds
I feel horrible for those who were visibly close to the docks. I hope they’re alive.
When watching something like that, you can always tell when they're too close...
Sorry to break it to you but they’re fucking corpses, not people anymore
Same
But they don't
12:08
This has to be one of the most terrifying things I’ve ever seen. The way that mushroom cloud looked blows my mind.
6:01 what a strong and smart woman. She acted so quick to save that child.
Females only care about children
Men are simply something they take advantage of to get by or provide for them and children
Not really. She should have reacted when the building was shaking but instead she went on vacuuming as if shaking buildings were the most normal thing ever.
@@vomm stop with the hatting, she could not know what's going on
@@vomm "Erm... Actually, she could've been faster" 🤓👆
@@vomm You rn: 🤡
1:46 was for sure the worst.. there is no way that person survived. How did they get that footage?!?! he was infront of the explosion he was really just inside of it.. Rest in peace to that guy/women
phone memory probably found in the debris
@@j134679 It might have been streaming the whole thing at that moment.
it was a livestream
There lots of app that upload at the same time once you start recording. You hold the button and it will upload at the same time
Yeah
The videos taken at the site and the apartment building across the street are just heart-wrenching knowing they likely didn't survive.
yes, the one closest to the burning! RIP I'm surprised the camera even survived that one.
Cameraman never die.
A lot of people which where extremly close actually survived
It's alright really, I'm pretty sure they survived if they/ someone was able to retrieve and post the footage...
we can hear the voice after the explosion but this man si idiot if he is not fireman
5:39 oh, boyyyyyy famous last words
I keep coming back to this. Something about it sticks so strongly in the memory. More so than 9/11 did in some ways. Though admittedly I was fairly young when that one happened. It's odd how certain events stick with us and others fade quickly into vague fragments. It is both morbidly fascinating and heartbreaking watching things like this. I feel so bad for those who lost their lives or were injured.
RIGHT I always end up back here
Same
Oh hi
@chaosauce Might depend somewhat on where you are and who's doing the reporting? Where I live it was on the news fairly often for a few days.
"I keep coming back to this. Something about it sticks so strongly in the memory. More so than 9/11 did in some ways. Though admittedly I was fairly young when that one happened." So, to refresh your young memory:
ua-cam.com/video/wRfphCLtUUI/v-deo.html&ab_channel=fresnosean379
That was just insane. I am so sorry. What a tragedy.
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@@Poopenfarden Kentucky fried chicken
2:08 the sound must come from the earth and water being shaken and not from the air, as the shockwave hits a few seconds later.
That sound is scary. Wow.
It's true as waves travel a lot faster in solid and liquid mediums compared to gaseous ones
In every video you can see that everything shaked before shockwave hit through air. As boss said shockwave goes much, much faster even in water.
If you watch video at 2:38 you will start hearing rumbling sound before that shockwave hits... absolutely scary.
@@gelo1238 At 6:02 you can see the whole building is shaking seconds before the shockwave hit
The sound hits afterwards because they are far from the source of the noise. Light travels faster than sound, thus you see it before you hear it, unless you're close enough for the senses not to perceive the sound delay.
Exactly, the sheer size of the visible Shockwave is mostly water too
once my dad told me that sound goes slower than the speed of light
1:32 Took me a second before I realised how close he was. I hope they survived, many who were that close didn't.
You are watching the perspective of a dead man. Nobody that close without hardened shelter survived.
What about 1:49? He’s literally right outside!! Did you miss that?
@@bort6414 if the video got uploaded he obviously survived ffs
@@Josh-wu7kzhe is the real cameraman never dies
@@bort6414this guy could’ve very well survived.
i think moments like these remind everyone that we might have different cultures, religions, languages etc but we all still share something in common. We're all human AND we react to catastrophic events the same way.
We start documenting the event and start screaming "OMG and WTF"
True words
fax
fax
7:17 most realistic reaction to be honest.
just what i was thinking xD
All of these are real because it happened to them and not you. You are ignorant and think you know everything which is a bad combo but funny to watch.
I live in Lebanon 🇱🇧 and i still remember this 3 years later i am still traumatized
Hearing the screams of the people watching it happen from afar, yelling “Oh my God!”, I can’t help but tear up thinking about all the people who died almost instantly with thousands if not millions of people watching
Just yesterday I saw one of those viral Tik Tok videos where they ask someone if they want free money or if they want to double it and send it along to the next person. The guy being offered money was a severely brain damaged man in a wheelchair who could barely speak. He chose to pass the money along to other people because he wanted to make people smile.
When asked how he became disabled, he said he was near ground zero in Beirut. He said he was just happy to be alive because he literally died and was brought back three times. ..and he wanted to share that happiness with others.
It really put some things into perspective..
Instantly is better than slowly
I remember seeing this on the news the day it happened and I couldn’t believe it at first . I’ve never seen anything like that before .
Now imagine a nuclear bomb… thats the true horror
@@ernestkhalimov5371 this is nothing compared to the weakest of nuclear bomb....this is just an equivalent of 0.08 kt of tnt compare that to the bomb dropped on hiroshima which is 15 KT of tnt 150x stronger than this
Praying for that one dude that was literally at ground zero. I hope he's alright.
The footage you see there was the first explosion. Supposedly he was flung away behind concrete and survived the second explosion. I don't know how he would though. The aftermath shows the buildings leveled.
2:05 this guy is confirmed dead.
3:00 look at the clouds, you can literally see the shockwave distorting the air as it gets closer. The boom is so loud and this guy is miles away
it is building new clouds close behind the shockwave because of compression and a compression follows an expansion which results in a temperature drop and the water vapor in the air condenses for a really short time
@@Soulleey But how do magnets work?
That first video was insane, the way the cloud expands that fast
It’s crazy that this happened Soo recently still. It’s also insane that with how fast the shockwave is, some people couldn’t even react when looking at it with their phone it was so quick😢
What’s more insane are how utterly stupid and thick the people who stored tons and tons and tons of volatile chemicals next to each other, and then tons and tons and tons of fireworks next to them. They were pretty lucky the explosion wasn’t any bigger.
the shockwave travels at minimum Mach 1, faster closer to the blast.
yeah it's almost like the shockwave is going the speed of sound...
@@tylermallory2504 yeahhh…. It’s not everyday you get a visual representation of the shit tho so keep that in mind. Of course it’s going at the speed of sound, that’s the whole point of it going fast
5:37 im probably gonna go to hell laughing at this one
OOOOOOH BOIIII
Also that and 7:16 literally got me laughing
Jesus. When I was 7 years old, a natural gas storage plant several miles away from my house blew up. It was the loudest thing I've ever heard. It was probably 1/50th the power of this explosion. That is just enormous amounts of energy being released. Incredible.
Jesus has nothing to do with this
@@totallylegityoutubeperson4170 It's just an expression you smooth brain
@@totallylegityoutubeperson4170 Why? Jesus died in a Gas explosion.
@@Mao_Dedong Jesus died for our propane and propane accessories.
And this explosion has just 0.2% the power of the nukes that were released in Japan. Meaning they were 500 times more devastating.
4:50, this was absolutely dreadful, hearing the screams at the end sent shivers down my spine. I feel so bad
i kinda hated that one the most, like the screaming for that long isnt necessary, dude was funny tho with the ah my leg line lol
@SamuelLapinski if youre an idiot, if you are calm and collected you know to better get the fuck out rather than scream and stand in place
@@Pet_Hedgehog psycho
@@Pet_Hedgehog what the fuck dude? your seriously laughing over someone literally watching + experiencing a life threatening event which they could have died in, you are actually sick in the mind
@SamuelLapinskiexcept for everyone else in this compilation that didn't
It's crazy how in those shots from super far off, you can see the shockwave in the clouds.
3:00 you can see the shockwave as it darkens the clouds on its approach and being so far away still is loud and scary.
It’s fascinating to know that these people witnessed the same explosion at different places at the same time. Wild
What is fascinating about that? They are different people looking at the same shit from a different location. Normal stuff..
@@wolfauu nice opinion
@@wolfauuthe amazing part is we get to see said perspectives, dick.
@@wolfauuwell anything can become fascinating if you think deep about it, just like how can cameras and our brain record the images(reality) inside a chip. You're literally watching past now
wyld!
Kudos to everyone who knew enough to turn their phone. Also thanks to the guy who put the red circle on the video; without that I never would have noticed THE BIGGEST EXPLOSION EVER.
😂
Not quite the biggest. 1/6 Hiroshima.
@@221b-l3t Tsar Bomba
The circle was to show a little bird that met its demise. RIP birdie.
True😅
7:01 thanks for adding that red circle on the screen. I wouldn't be able to see the explosion without it.
He's pointing out the foreign object that flies straight into the flames a half second before it all goes boom.
This was set off on purpose.
He's pointing out a bird lad@@contraband1543
1:47 you can see the windows literally shattering, letting more smoke come out before the explosion hits, absolutely terrifying
0:42 I can’t believe there was people that didn’t believe it was real because the cranes near the blast disappeared.
Глупости пишите, не куда они не исчезли. Потрепало сильно, это да.
@@straylucifer4049 даже если бы вы написали это на английском Я бы все равно понял что вы из СНГ
Такой специфический тон
do people not understand how explosions work?
@@INKVISITOR666 Пожалуй Вы правы, мы при первой встрече чрезмерно грубы.
@@oliverbaker8575 How does magnets work? I mean really: How do they work?
Over 212 people died,and 7,000 injuries and 300,000 homeless 😭
That was scary!
Can’t believe way more people didn’t die with an explosion like that in a populated area. Very sad.
@@woodsmaneh952it’s a miracle
That's very sad. I hope that they can rest in peace. Why was there a nuclear bomb in a freight container?
300.000 homeless after this explosion? Bro its not like 100.000 houses were destroyed there. Where you get this number from? Maybe there are 300.000 people with broken windows but never ever the explosion destroyed that many houses.
its amazing the amount of people who can see the shockwave coming right at them and refuse to move away from the window.
they couldn't grasp the power of what they just saw.
most of them didn't expect their windows to get destroyed.
some of them couldn't take their eyes of the beauty.
others were simply frozen in fear.
exactly they were in shock
There's fight, flight, and freeze. They're the freezers.
What’s exactly the issue with that? Ig broken glass could be damaging or it could damage your hearing but not much beyond that
@@Vindisk
the human body doesn't do well with shockwaves.
but more importantly, human EYES don't do well with glass.
I'm so sorry, Beirut.
May your heart become filled with so much love that it heals every part of your soul. 💗
Watching this again I can't help but feel so sad for the innocent people who were working and making a living and it being their final day alive because of others' incompetence
Quien lo diría, ganar más, tener trabajadores incompetentes y no seeuor las órdenes si que da consecuencias.
@@transitcombine9057 Si.
5:37 The shockwave being seen on the water. Terrifying
Realize this guys, according to some records and personal testimony afterwards, there was WAY more materials there that could have exploded but wasn't in a correct mixture amount. This could have been much much worse.
Amid the human tragedy, the one guy just going "WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK" had me rolling
(7:17)
thats not really nice, imagine being in that situation.
The shot where you can see an entire bridge of cars being destroyed is REALLY upsetting to watch. I take the bus every day so watching the bus stuck there honestly freaked me the hell out.
The scariest thing about this is the fact of how far some of these people are and they still got blowen around like a rag doll so just thing of people that were even closer so sad to everyone that lost someone that day💔😢
5:28 so so lucky not to get a face full of glass. Feel so bad for people who were closer.
I am surprised how the car got no damage. I was expecting the car to explode
2:57 this part scared me so bad tho (rest in peace to the people that died) and love to the people that lost loved ones or are injured
As a Lebanese watching this over and over again makes me feel so awful and gives me really scary and sad flashbacks that I hope no one experience’s it
I read "As a Lesbian"
As an American, we did. 22 years ago, but far worse. Even though everyone just wants to make fun of our suffering, I would never joke about this. As a Christian, I was praying for the Lebanese on that day.
@@kidfox3971 It wasn't far worse. You need to get over it. What your nazi army did to Iraq was far worse.
@@phaexal Concuerdo y antes de ir a Irak vinieron a Panamá a probar armamento militar con personas civiles.
@@phaexalTelling someone to "get over it" when they've experienced trauma is very dismissive and ignorant. Please don't tell that to someone who has experienced trauma. "Getting over" such a traumatic experience is not that simple.
Imagine being a kid looking through the window and you see a massive explosion, that would be terrifying. and may the people who died rest in peace.
I can imagine the kid looking through a window at this wouldn’t be doing too much looking afterwards considering the glass from the window exploding in their face. You wouldn’t want to imagine being any where near an explosion of this magnitude
The US did pretty much same shit during invade Iraq
Seeing the parent's protective instincts kick in is heart-warming
It's noticeable, that many people do not aware of the impact of blast wave. Many of them have seconds to escape, but they still filming near glass windows.
I would probably freeze and not know what's happening even if I knew beforehand how it works
The thing that you gotta realise about this as well, is the sheer terror of what you must be thinking. To those who didn't see the smoke before or didn't know what it could've been, this could've felt looked like a nuke. Imagine thinking that, and likely not knowing for an hour or two after. I'd be shitting it and making sure I got out of the dangerous radiation zone, just in case. Absolute tragedy and it took 200 lives as well.
1:44 That guy was incredibly close to the factory.. incredible that he actually survived with the footage.
Some people say it was a livestream
My face was WOW he was sooo close!
Same!@@LukaszKopeiro
Facts. I've never seen any footage that close.
I wonder if he avoided the shock wave somehow. It was at just the right angle that the air pressure just cascaded right over him.
What I find impressive about this is how little buildings were actually destroyed or rendered irreparable by that shockwave, modern engineering is amazing.
Ground zero was surrounded by a huge reinforced concrete structure and a LOT of energy went into the ground. Even with THOSE factors buildings were demolished and other buildings were severely damaged.
AND this was only estimated at 300 tons to 1.5 kilotons MAX tnt equalivaent. The average US nuke is 300 - 455 KILOTONS. If a 455 kiloton nuke exploded in that same position Beirut would be a smoking crater.
it's scary how you can see the shockwave moving and coming at your direction
I love how today we can document things that we only could see in movies or in times of war. It's chilling to see and hear the blast as it happens in real life.
I like to look at clouds. I can’t imagine ever looking at clouds and then just seeing them essentially disappear in moments for many square miles. Crazy.
That would be a nightmare
After you see the cloud you have five seconds to hide and pray.
videos like this always make me realise how few people are aware of simple but essential survival advice like staying away from glass windows after an explosion. easiest way to go blind or worse yet dead
The fact that nobody gave a fuck about an explosion more worser than 9/11 is just so sad
The thing it’s that because hundreds but not thousand people died the news rapidly forgot about it, it is sad but that’s the reason
Inexcusable for so much volatile, hazardous material to be stored so recklessly. The unfathomably stupid ignorance of the people responsible for this ignorance, maybe arrogance, is not surpassed by this explosion. Peace and prayers to all who've suffered and continue to be traumatized by this disaster.
I'm disturbed by how many people didn't seem to know that shockwaves are a thing...
Welcome to lebanon
Congrats you know lots of big words.
Some people just pulled out their phone to film a big fire unknowingly it going to explode the very next seconds giving them no time to escape. Absolutely terrifying
@@xplatypus516I think you need to pick up a book or 10
whats scary is this is just a very small sample of what even a actual low yield tactical nuke can do
2:56 is one of the coolest things I've ever seen captured on camera. I'm not trying to discount tragedy, of course, but just look at the distortion in the clouds...
I don't think I ever knew until now the actual insane scale and power of this explosion. Humans can create amazing things and terrifying accidents...
This ain't shit on even a moderate volcanic explosion.
@@Soniti1324 ???
@@joj5150 Volcanos explode with far more force than this, so fearing man's power is foolish compared to that of nature.
@@Soniti1324robert oppenheimer wants to know your location
@@Soniti1324actually no you are correct volcano more powerful than nukes