Beirut explosion

[TGS]

From the same article:

Among the sensors cited by Hayoun was an array installed about 70 km (43 miles) off Lebanon’s coast by the international geological project IRIS - which cast doubt on his conclusions.

IRIS said its sensors picked up more than five “small bursts” at intervals of around 11 seconds before the main Beirut explosion, a sequence that continued after the incident.

“I do not believe that they are associated with the large explosion in Beirut,” Jerry Carter, director of IRIS data services, told Reuters.

[Clusterfrack]

From the same article:

I saw that just now. Thanks for pointing it out. I wanted it to be the smoking gun, and my eye skipped right over it. I hate Hezbollah so much it taints my objectivity.

[Chance]

From BBC News:

The blast that devastated large parts of Beirut in August was one of the biggest non-nuclear explosions in history, experts say.

The Sheffield University, UK, team says a best estimate for the yield is 500 tons of TNT equivalent, with a reasonable upper limit of 1.1 kilotons.

This puts it at around one-twentieth of the size of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945.

[Baldanders]

From BBC News:

That needs to go after the FOAB!

[Dog Guy]

https://link.springer.com/article/10...93-020-00970-z links to the cited paper.

[Lex Luthier]

A really neat set of video and 3d modeling visualizations here:

https://forensic-architecture.org/in...port-explosion

(Via the estimable Joe Huffman at www.blog.joehuffman.org)