Massive Explosion in China

[rockmanj]

https://www.reddit.com/live/veh2e41lp0he

There was a huge explosion in Tianjin today...the news is pretty crazy around it.

[Munsu]

That's nuts.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Unt92HotOOw

[Edort4]

They say the explosion created an "earthquake" of 3 points in the Ritcher scale. Dunno what the hell they were storing there to create such an explosion. I read that they evacuated due to the fire that started it all so with a bit of luck casualties will be lower than what the explosion could cause. They said that is was as if 21 tons of TNT exploded.

I wonder how will this affect their economy. Stocks were having a bad time and they recently devalued.

[Animeniax]

I heard it was a facility that "specializes" in hazardous and dangerous material storage. In China that means a warehouse where they stacked leaky boxes of dangerous materials and left them to rot. Only a matter of time before some crazy sh*t happens.

[shinta|hikari]

What doesn't explode in China anyway?