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"I Could Feel Death" - Massive Explosion Rocks Chinese Port City, Martial Law Declared, 42 Dead (9 Firemen), Over 400 Injured
Update (via Bernama): TIANJIN EXPLOSIONS KILL AT LEAST 42, INJURE OVER 400
Two powerful explosions at a "dangerous materials” warehouse jolted China's northeastern Tianjin on Wednesday night, leaving at least 42 people dead, including nine firefighters, and over 400 wounded.
The incident happened before midnight on Thursday; netizens on China-Twitter such as Weibo posted images of the blasts which resembled a huge mushroom cloud.
More than 1000 firefighters and 143 fire engines were dispatched to the scene since last night and massive rescue efforts were underway, the Tianjin Fire Department said on its official Weibo account.
Chinese President Xi Jinping has called for an all-out effort to save the injured while Premier Li Keqiang vowed a thorough investigation and open and transparent information disclosure to the public, Xinhua news agency reported.
(via AP)...
The official Xinhua News agency says 32 people remain in critical condition and 283 others have been hospitalized following the explosions late Wednesday.
In all, more than 400 people have been injured.
The Beijing News newspaper says on its website that nine firefighters are among the 17 dead.
As is customary during disasters, Chinese authorities are trying to keep a tight control over information.Police are keeping journalists and bystanders away with a cordon as many as a few kilometers (miles) from the site.
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As we explained earlier...
It appears that carry trades are not the only thing blowing up in China. A massive explosion, fireball, and mushroom cloud can be seen at chemical storage facility in the Chinese port town of Tianjin...
- *DEATH TOLL FROM BLAST IN CHINA'S TIANJIN RISES TO 17: DAILY
- *TIANJIN HALTS SUBWAY TO BLAST-HIT BIN HAI NEW AREA ON THURSDAY
- *TIANJIN MAYOR URGES CONTROL OF SECONDARY ACCIDENTS AFTER BLAST
Close-up...
The explosion could be seen from space...
As AP reports,
Huge explosions at a warehouse for dangerous materials in the northeastern Chinese port of Tianjin killed at least 17 people, injured hundreds and sent massive fireballs into the night sky, officials and witnesses said Thursday.
China's state broadcaster, CCTV, said that at least 17 people were killed and that 32 were in critical condition in hospital. Hundreds of others were taken to hospital. The explosions late Wednesday knocked doors off buildings in the area and shattered windows up to several kilometers (miles) away.
"I thought it was an earthquake, so I rushed downstairs without my shoes on," Tianjin resident Zhang Siyu, whose home is several kilometers from the blast site, said in a telephone interview. "Only once I was outside did I realize it was an explosion. There was the huge fireball in the sky with thick clouds. Everybody could see it."
Zhang said she could see wounded people weeping. She said she did not see anyone who had been killed, but "I could feel death."
There was no indication of what caused the blasts, and no immediate sign of any large release of toxic chemicals into the air. Beijing News reported on its website that there was some unidentified yellow foam flowing at the site.
Police in Tianjin said an initial blast took place at shipping containers in a warehouse for hazardous materials owned by Ruihai Logistics, a company that says it's properly approved to handle hazardous materials. State media said senior management of the company had been detained by authorities, and that President Xi Jinping has demanded severe punishment for anyone found responsible for the explosions.
The official Xinhua News agency said an initial explosion triggered other blasts at nearby businesses. The National Earthquake Bureau reported two major blasts before midnight, the first with an equivalent of 3 tons of TNT, and the second with the equivalent of 21 tons.
The explosions took place in a mostly industrial zone, with some apartment buildings in the vicinity. Buildings of a half-dozen other logistics companies were destroyed in the blasts, and more than 1,000 new Renault cars were left charred in nearby parking lot, Beijing News said.
Photos taken by bystanders and circulating on microblogs show a gigantic fireball high in the sky, with a mushroom-cloud. Other photos on state media outlets showed a sea of fire that painted the night sky bright orange, with tall plumes of smoke.
About 2 kilometers (1.2 miles) from the explosion site is the luxury Fifth Avenue apartment complex on a road strewn with broken glass and pieces of charred metal thrown from explosion. Like surrounding buildings, the Mediterranean style complex had all its windows blown out, and some of its surfaces were scorched.
"It's lucky no one had moved in," said a worker on the site, Liu Junwei, 29. "But for us it's a total loss. Two years hard work down the drain."
"It had been all quiet, then the sky just lit up brighter than day and it looked like a fireworks show," said another worker on the site who gave just his surname, Li.
In one neighborhood about 10 to 20 kilometers (6 to 12 miles) from the blast site, some residents were sleeping on the street wearing gas masks, although there was no perceptible problem with the air apart from massive clouds of smoke seen in the distance.
"It was like what we were told a nuclear bomb would be like," said truck driver Zhao Zhencheng, who spent the night in the cab of his truck. "I've never even thought I'd see such a thing. It was terrifying but also beautiful."
At the nearby Taida Hospital as dawn broke, military medical tents were set up. Photos circulating online showed patients in bandages and with cuts.
State broadcaster CCTV said six battalions of firefighters had brought the ensuing fire under control, although it was still burning in the early hours of Thursday.
Images...
A huge and horrible #explosion happened in #tianjin from a dangerous good storage. pic.twitter.com/Gx48GIWEwg
— susu sure (@SuSuSure) August 12, 2015
???? BREAKING: Large explosion in #Tianjin, #China, cause unclear. pic.twitter.com/Bl9eRsnhH5
— News2Share (@news_2_share) August 12, 2015
#Breaking: Massive explosion rocks N China's #Tianjin, cause & casualties unclear yet (web sources) @BreakingNews pic.twitter.com/GOG8Q7OWew
— China Xinhua News (@XHNews) August 12, 2015
#Breaking: Explosion happened in E China's Tianjin City Wed. Huge mushroom cloud seen. Quake felt 10 km away. pic.twitter.com/PkgzFb8kyv
— People's Daily,China (@PDChina) August 12, 2015
tianjin explosion pic.twitter.com/FK5xjCz2Xk
— William Locke (@thelastnext) August 12, 2015
Clips...
@PDChina @NewsOnTheMin: BREAKING VIDEO: Of the Tianjin China explosion pic.twitter.com/HRD5dXxdkD (via @thelastnext)
— Erik de Vlieger (@EWdeVlieger) August 12, 2015
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chinese false flag, perhaps
I didn't know China was launching SpaceX rockets.
You disrupt the forex markets and get the black ops treatment....
Sum Ting Wong
Gou houme faat boi! Bee ah maan!
I predicted a Sum Ting Wong Wednesday on ZH yesterday.
Confusius say "If you live in a glass house, don't devalue your currency first"
PEPCON?
Do they make rocket fuel...thems the best explosions. Ask Henderson NV. They know.
Good point. Anyone who hasn't seen that rocket fuel plant detonate should immediately head over to YouTube. Short of a nuke detonation, I've never seen anything in the same league as that one. Truly awe-inspiring. It's the kind of blast that the word "obliterated" was invented to describe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1kTAX9uWcw
China's chemical explosion is nohting more then them ensuring we don't get ahead of them in the toxic enviroment sector. That Colorado River spill scared the wee wee out of them fearing they'd fall behind USA and Japan in polluting the enviroment.
Does Silverstein own the building?
Pull It!
Rothschild
Never start welding near tubs of perchlorate!
Concussed. Just like the economy.
holy le fuk
Great news! The repairing of these damages will stimulate the economy as replacing all those broken windows won't be cheap.
They should blow up moar stuff and call it WWQE
Chinese New Year??
Should we run down to Wal-Mart and start hoarding?
no , wait a few days
see how much more the yuan is devalued
Just a flesh wound....
On one hand, there's a completely reasonable precedent.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KuGizBjDXo <- PEPCON explosion
On the other hand, everything has been stretched so taut that one's first thought can't be anything less than an unprovoked nuclear attack.
Wow, what the fuck was that? LNG?
Looks like it, Tianjin is the site of a large LNG receiving facility, fairly new.
something tells me they were still working out the kinks.
As soon as I saw the explosion I thought "what a shockwave that's going to be!". It didn't disappoint, that's for sure.
I thought the same thing! Holy crap, that was nuclear quality! I think he turned around to check if the pictures were still on the wall! And they were quite a distance away. Imagine the closer buildings! I'm guessing the glaziers will be busy once the fire is out.
LNG storage spheres exploding. One went off and the debris was falling when the cameraman started filming and then the second exploded. The concussion hit his building and he dropped the camera about the time he peed in his pants.
Go long glass.
Go long Chinese laundry.
Hey Chinese phone cam man. When filming something on the horizon TURN YOUR FREAKIN' PHONE SIDEWAYS!
Sorry, just a pet peeve of mine. I'm better now.
I don't know, you'll missed out on the perspective of the mushroom cloud...
The Chinese were like: "Hey EPA, you think you're the only ones who can create an environmental disaster?? We'll show you!"
nobody can match the Japanese tho...
Do they put chemical plants that close to residential areas? A lot of people killed there me thinks.
Dow chem does
Shot across the bow?
Pretty freakin big.
A little Jewish lightning.
Now that's fuckin' funny.
Seriously though, that's some scary shit. Hope nobody was around.
SOMEBODY was around. That was a fucking monster expolsion. No way that resulted in zero casualties.
But they're just Chinese people, so damned many of them, so far away, we'll never hear the body count number over here.
You mean they weren't brown skinned and we still dont care about them being blown to bits? Cool. Hey did you catch last night's Survivor episode?
Silly rabbit. #blaklivesmatter -- but no one else's does.
Please. Their population is 1.3 Billion. Believe me. Somebody was around.
Some unfortunate people got one-way tickets off the planet.
9/11 needs to be rebranded as such
You mean nineteen cave dwelling men weren't responsible for 911? Wow! this changes everything. I may have to rethink some other stuff the teevee told me.
Yes.
No Santa Claus
No Tooth Fairy
Many many things in flux.
Capitalist lashback by Western interests.
langley op ?
hmmm...
no longer just a currency war?
Needs Leslie Nielsen in the foreground..."Nothing to see here!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NNOrp_83RU
They only devalued 3% that was uncalled for!! Do we get a nuke at 10%?
aFTER WATCHING VID, SUM TING WILLY WONG!
That's some rehypothicated DG chemicals that won't be telling any tales.
nice concussion wave
This harkens fond rememberances of what was taking place in that corner of the globe seven years ago when the Chinese were hosting the Olympics in 2008!
What happened right before "the games" in that Southern province again?
Or should we say what happens just as the Chinese PBOC was getting ready to do in 2008 when they were contemplating a bold move to no longer peg their currency to the "Almighty ass paper"!
Deja Vu!
So now we have to worry about both literal and metaphoric explosions in China(everywhere).
Damn ZH is fast.... beat msn and xinhua.
This isnt one of those brilliant russian troll farms hacking twitter accounts is it?
ZH is on top! Beats Sludge Report!!
I cant decide whether I hold my lowest opinion on US or China... meh, beat it China is it.
USA nuking people already?
I am shocked - SHOCKED - that you didn't immediately blame this on Mossad. Isn't that your goto explanation for everything?
That's reserved for his DoucheBoy2015 moniker.
Tactical nuke. Economic warfare.
Will this delay iPhone 6s shipments?
Sure hope not, I've been in line 3 months already.
Broken window fallacy has begun. Now that we can't build more ghost cities it's time to level things in populated areas and rebuild them again.
Krug-man-bear-pig must be drooling.
Looks like a BLEVE to me. Not sure how to insert a link here, search BLEVE, see wikipedia.
"If the substance involved is flammable, it is likely that the resulting cloud of the substance will ignite after the BLEVE has occurred, forming a fireball and possibly a fuel-air explosion, also termed a vapor cloud explosion (VCE)."
Could be LPG, they are spectacular when they go up.
I can't BLEVE it!
shock 'n awe
I can neither confirm nor deny this had anything to do with aliens.
Saying that was a mushroom cloud is a stretch.
Mini nuke? Hmmm, ok, "chemical explosion". Dem are some chemicals you peeps got stored there!
Now we get to watch office furniture and paper burn underground for 11 weeks, melting the granite bedrock.....oh....wait....
http://www.lngworldnews.com/chinas-cnooc-receives-shipment-at-tianjin-ln...
China uses a lot of natural gas.
sure do. and this: Davy Process Technology Limited (DPT), a Johnson Matthey company, and The Dow Chemical Company announced that the Tianjin Soda Plant, a subsidiary of Tianjin Bohai Chemical Industry Co Ltd, has selected the LP OxoSM Technology for the second time to be used in its new Butanol/2-ethylhexanol plant in the Harbour Economic Area, Binhai New Area, Tianjin, China. http://www.worldofchemicals.com/media/dow-davy-license-technology-to-tia...
LNG,
Coming to a port near you!
Sounds like a solution to some inventory problems...
You can see a small fire or explosion in the video before the actual big bang.
Looks like a munitions explosion by my experience, but what the heck...
The smoke plume detonated, like the one in Texas a couple years ago...they make Ammonia Nitate out of LNG you know.
Naptha explosion?
Shit's getting real
So this wasn't filmed on the set of the Bladerunner remake?
So this is bullish right? Moar money pumped in to rebuild
Hopium Wars III
Damn.
Hurt by high pork prices, hundreds of hungry citizens who were drawn to the explosion, turned angrily away after the Chinese government informed them that the giant mushroom was not edible.
it took a month or so but the muslims finally responded to china restricting muslim practices
Too bad that wasn't Capitol Hill. Oh wait......they are all on vacation. Carry on
Well, I was going to make a smart-ass joke about empty warehouses getting 'splodie but then I saw the casualty report.
Chemical plant run by former Union Carbide employees
It was an explosives shipment that blew up...
http://news.yahoo.com/huge-explosion-rocks-tianjin-northern-china-182420...
Take that for shorting your maoze-dollar!
Tomorrow there will be no short.
With best regards, NWO
Workers put lot wong stuff in container. Make big boom. http://en.people.cn/n/2015/0813/c90000-8935123.html
PRAYERS for everyone involved.
That is a huge mushroom cloud. Quake felt 10 km away??!! The amount of energy released is phenomenal.
There are going to be major casualties from this incident.
Shipping container filled with chemistry sets. Someone tested the do not mix these chemicals together warning.
no wonder our school children get it all wrong; those sets are as dumb as the children.
Play with explosives, you get exploded.
The Chinese sure love their fireworks.
Here, hold my beer and watch this.
lol and drudge report used to be first to the punch. i know i know i know that's been like 10 years at least. but damn guys! i have not seen this anywhere on the interwebs yet besides here
Merely fixing a discrepancy.
I know about things such as "scrubbers"....the coal industry in the U.S. does a good job of clean stuff. But obama's handlers do not want it here so they give it to China that has no regulations etc. Its a small world and that shit will come here. This is why I know that obamas handlers do not care about the environmment, just total control.....
American retaliation for the yuan devaluation?
That was nuts. Whew! The shockwave is insane.
Which wire do I cut first?...
Not that one.
Pity the politburo was on vacation. They like to be applauded at each fireworks.
This time they will have to round up the usual suspects !
China's built cities are empty. Surprised 100 bought it. Thought it would be more like 1 or 2.
Peasants and farms in rural areas are being sent to these cities. NY Times has 3 articles addressing this. Article stated those who refused to give up their land and move, were evicted by gun point. Govt gave them 5 grand I believe. Very unhappy people. The cities are slap shod and there is no work, meaning hours of commute. The old people are lost of what to do, some are commiting suicide. "Stymied to Death"
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/16/world/asia/chinas-great-uprooting-movi...
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/09/world/asia/as-chinese-farmers-fight-fo...
"Besides the self-immolations, farmers have killed themselves by other means to protest land expropriation. One Chinese nongovernmental organization, the Civil Rights and Livelihood Watch, reported that in addition to 6 self-immolations last year, 15 other farmers killed themselves. Others die when they refuse to leave their property: last year, a farmer in the southern city of Changsha who would not yield was run over by a steamroller, and last month, a 4-year-old girl in Fujian Province was struck and killed by a bulldozer while her family tried to stop an attempt to take their land."
Ho Lee Fuk
never gets old
Speed of sound = 340 m/s
Time between flash and bang 7 s
Approximative distance from the plant to the observer is 2.4 kms
So huge blast at 2.4 kms OMG !
HAARP staying pretty busy.
No worry, warheads of missiles for North Korea won't do anthing if dropped into hold of ship.
Thats gonna leave a mark...
Thats how it started out in that movie Cloverdale, and then before you know it, you have aliens flying out of your anus...
Tape?
Thankfully, China has a lot of excess capacity or was someone worried about the figures that the stocktake would reveal?
"Pull it"
Chinese ports are their WTC buildings.
Apple factory blown... ooh shit
and two billion copper security accounts just went bye-bye.....well that is an easy way to get rid of the over security coppered loans they have....Hung To Low can say he lost it all in that explosion....
heard a lot about boating accidents here,
a girl in germany found something while swiming.
wonder if it was faked
http://www.n-tv.de/panorama/Badende-entdeckt-Goldbarren-article15709871....
some kind of reverse boating accident
Interesting. All of these Chinese ports:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ports_in_China
and this explosion happens at the one used by Bejing. It's the closest port, about 100 miles east southeast of Bejing.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Xin+Gang+Er+Hao+Dong+Lu,+Binhai+Xinqu,...!4m2!3m1!1s0x35ed844eb3c5a80d:0xd1bd5015d5d99218
yes but isn't the port of Shanghai moar better?
And the Port of Shanghai is right in Shanghai, China's most populous city, not 100 miles away on the freeway.
Aren't they developing a financial center they as well?
Edit- it is interesting - http://www.ejinsight.com/20150724-tianjin-ghost-town-to-quadruple-gdp-by...
They will have it repaired soon, next Monday it will look like new.
off topic http://freebeacon.com/issues/obama-clinton-foundation-donors-sold-green-...
War, Corruption, Schemes, Fraud.
I wonder what the Chinese phrase is for "shithappens"??
Wushithappenswu.
CIA/Mossad retaliation for China's voluntary devaluation of the Yuan?
At a major port, as to be certain the Chinese "got the message"..
Just what I was thinking. They've lost the art of subtlety, which probably means they're getting desperate.
SHAKERS! LIGHTNING! PLAGUE! DEATH!
Brothers, we are living in the end of days!
This is much more like the beginning of the end of days.
This is minor league shit.
We haven't heard the trumpets yet.
Oh, and the horsesmen. Haven't seen the 4 horsemen yet.
If you do, then you are not among the elect...yet.
$10 says it's fertilizer galveston fertilizer explosion
Samson Option for $200.00 Alex
1997: Israel Shahak writes: "Israel clearly prepares itself to seek overtly a hegemony over the entire Middle East ... without hesitating to use for the purpose all means available, including nuclear ones."
Alan Hart of the BBC, Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir.
“Prime Minister, I want to be sure I understand what you’re saying … You are saying that if Israel was ever in danger of being defeated on the battlefield, it would be prepared to take the region and the whole world down with it?"
Meir "without the shortest of pauses for reflection, and in the gravel voice that could charm or intimidate American Presidents according to need" replied: “Yes, that’s exactly what I’m saying.”
http://www.thehypertexts.com/Nakba%20Holocaust%20Palestinians%20Samson%2...
What does it have to do with anything? This was not a nuclear explosion and Israel has excellent relations with China, motivated due to the worsening of its relations with the US.
Nothing to be done.
Except make a lot of popcorn and see if an equally terrible event befalls the US/EU.
That's not cool.
The shockwave was bitchin
yep
http://www.breakingnews.com/topic/explosion-reported-in-tianjin-china/
video of some poor bastard and the shock wave
Hopefully it was quick and painless
Chinese are still poor...didn't hear one car alarm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oppau_explosion
fertilizer silos, 1921
"Martial law declared", China's Reichstag fire?
Anything can happen (and probably will) in the Great Chinese Mercan "currenc¥ war$!
bubble bursting
You do not devalue your moneys two days in a row... Feel bad for the people, as that was a massive blast. My first reaction was, oh, there's a chink in their armor but I realized that was truly bad taste and we should all pray for the peoples suffering with this loss. Yes, shipping of goods around the world will be AFFECTED by this.