Top 5 greatest explosions ever |
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// --> 5. Tunguska The mysterious explosion near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in 1908 flattened some 500,000 acres (2,000 square kilometers) of Siberian forest, an area nearly the size of Tokyo. Scientists think the blast was caused by a cosmic impact from an asteroid or comet perhaps 65 feet (20 meters) in diameter and 185,000 metric tons in mass -- more than seven times that of the Titanic. The resulting explosion could have been roughly as strong as four megatons of TNT -- 250 times more powerful than the atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima. 4. Gerdec Explosion - Albania The 2008 Gërdec explosions occurred at approximately noon local time on Saturday 15 March 2008 at an ex-military ammunition depot in the village of Gërdec in the Vorë Municipality, Albania (14 kilometers from Tirana). The explosions could be heard in the Macedonian capital of Skopje, 170 km away. A large fire caused a series of explosions that continued until 2 a.m. on Sunday. The main explosion, involving more than 400 tons of propellant in containers, destroyed hundreds of houses within a few kilometers from the depot and broke windows in cars on the Tirana-Durrës highway. Thousands of artillery shells, most of them unexploded, littered the area. The blast shattered all the windows of the terminal building at the country's only international airport, and all flights were suspended for some 40 minutes. Some 4,000 inhabitants of the zone were evacuated and offered shelter in state-owned resorts. The Government declared the zone a disaster area. 3. PEPCON Disaster De PEPCON-ramp was een industriële ramp die plaatsvond bij Henderson, Nevada op 4 mei 1988 bij de Pacific Engineering Production Company of Nevada (PEPCON). Het chemische vuur en op elkaar volgende explosies eiste 2 levens, verwondde ongeveer 372 mensen en veroorzaakte een geschatte 100 miljoen (Amerikaanse dollars) aan schade. Een groot deel van het Las Vegas-metropoolgebied (16 km verderweg) werd getroffen en sommige instanties activeerden noodplannen. De fabriek was een grote producent van ammoniumperchloraat, een oxidator in vaste brandstofraketten en vuurwerk. De knal (die in onderstaand filmpje te zien is) werd geregistreerd als een aardbeving van 3.5 op de schaal van richter. 2. The Texas City Disaster A fire onboard the cargo ship SS Grandcamp docked at Texas City in 1947 detonated 2,300 tons of ammonium nitrate, a compound used in fertilizers and high explosives. The explosion blew two planes out of the sky and triggered a chain reaction that detonated nearby refineries as well as a neighboring cargo ship carrying another 1,000 tons of ammonium nitrate. The disaster killed roughly 600 people and injured roughly 3,500, and is generally considered the worst industrial accident in U.S. history. 1. Halifax Explosion In 1917, a French cargo ship fully loaded with explosives for World War I accidentally collided with a Norwegian vessel in the harbor of Halifax, Canada. It exploded with more force than any man-made explosion before it, equivalent to roughly 3 kilotons of TNT. The blast sent a white plume billowing 6,100 meters above the city and provoked a tsunami that washed up as high as 18 meters. For nearly 2 km surrounding the blast center, there was total devastation, and roughly 2,000 people were killed and 9,000 injured. It remains the world's largest artificial accidental explosion. Door de anciënniteit van dit voorval is er helaas geen deftig beeldmateriaal van te vinden. Het meest interessante wat ik erover kon vinden is deze foto van een boot die gestrand is door de tsunami die volgde op de ontploffing: |
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