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According to Chinese media, the blast occurred in a warehouse containing “dangerous chemical goods”. There was an initial blast that immediately sent the place to flames and then it instigated a massive one later on that rocked the locality for miles. It is rare that an explosion of this magnitude (apart from nuclear tests) is caught on camera, and it created mass-level panic and destruction in the surroundings.

Horrendous pictures of the disaster have since surfaced the internet that have shown the level of damage faced by the port city. Such was the blast that the fire was spread by a large radius and efforts to contain them may have lost more lives than ones lost in the immediate aftermath. The potential damage from this catastrophe is believed to be in hundreds of millions of dollars. This shows a dark aspect of the lax safety regulations in the world’s most heavily industrialized nation. The explosive might have been TNT itself, but there are no confirmed reports.






















Experts believe that the blast’s intensity indicated that the first explosion was worth around 2 tonnes of explosive while the second mega blast will be close to 21 tonnes (BBC). Such was the enormity of the explosions that they were observable from the space stations too. See more these images and let’s try to learn what happens if engineering safety procedures aren’t applied rigorously.

 

 

 More than a hundred fire engines have reached the place yet it still has some fires raging on. As a result of the blast, the buildings shook furiously, and many residents are now afraid to go back due to the large cracks that have appeared in their walls and roofs. Tianjin is a big city home to more than 15 million people. It is a major port and industrial area of China, and now a large percentage of the population is now affected by the deadly blasts.