Beirut: Look at the damage the car in the second tweet suffers from the shock wave.

[tblue37]

The driver was filming the explosion at a distance, and then the shock wave hit his car:

Link to tweet

[msongs]

1. vid 1 shows the shock wave moving thru the coulds right before the noise nt

[underpants]

2. That was a mile away

😳

[eppur_se_muova]

11. First video shows 26-27 seconds between blast and sound ...

At just under 5 sec/mile, that's 5-6 miles away. Because the initial shock wave can be supersonic, that's probably an overestimate.

[Karadeniz]

3. Jeez. I remember Beirut as such a beautiful, cosmopolitan city...in the 60's. Driving in, I looked o

The window at the Mediterranean coast and saw the most perfect little cove, shiny turquoise water...still on my list of the most beautiful things I've ever seen. That's where I learned how to eat an egg in its shell. Tragic that it's been ruined for decades now. Sickening.

[Karadeniz]

4. Jeez. I remember Beirut as such a beautiful, cosmopolitan city...in the 60's. Driving in, I looked o

The window at the Mediterranean coast and saw the most perfect little cove, shiny turquoise water...still on my list of the most beautiful things I've ever seen. That's where I learned how to eat an egg in its shell. Tragic that it's been ruined for decades now. Sickening.

[Yeehah]

5. Wow -- looks to be about a mile from the blast

How on Earth did that much fireworks get into the middle of a city?

[PTWB]

10. Fireworks?

[herding cats]

12. It started as a fireworks fire.

Then it"s said it burned into a massive amount of sodium nitrate. Some 2000 lbs worth.

[PatSeg]

6. The videos have been extraordinary

I can't even begin to imagine what it must have been like to be there.

[ProfessorGAC]

9. I Thought The Same

That's the 8th angle I've seen now.
Amazing power in that blast.
AmNO is a compound to be treated with massive respect & caution.

[PatSeg]

13. It was one of those images

where you look at it over and over again and each time it is still shocking and hard to believe it is real.

[peacebuzzard]

8. Before this today Beirut was in pandemic crisis

Recession, hyperinflation, Currency devaluation.
And now this.
Incredible video. Thanks for posting.
🌎 Beirut was once the gem of the Mediterranean