Posted on 08/15/2015 9:58:19 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Death Toll in Tianjin Explosions Rises to 112, With 95 Missing
by Phil Helsel and The Associated Press
More bodies were found in the aftermath of Wednesday's powerful explosions in the Chinese port city of Tianjin, bringing the death toll to 112, state media reported Sunday local time.
State media agency Xinhua reported that 95 people remain missing, including 85 firefighters. More than 770 people remained hospitalized.
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Well aware of that. Design yield was 100 MT. The Soviets dialed it down to 50, because as much as they liked pissing off the rest of the world, a huge radioactive plume of irradiated soil drifting across Europe was more than they could get away with.
The idea of something like that going off in a densly-populated city makes me want to go all Grizzly Adams.
It looks like they detonated it in extreme northern Russia, on a large island.
You're thinking Manhattan (70K per sq mile), but the actual densities of most Chinese cities is more like Houston (~4K per sq mile). The only Chinese city that approaches Manhattan's density is Hong Kong.
#21 is an impressive shot. 500-600’ diameter crater I’d guess.
People used to travel to Las Vegas and get hotels rooms high up to watch the detonations in the test area.
Btw what happened to the 700 tons of cyanide in this explosions?
Probably the same thing that happened to the cyanide planted in the truck that blew up to cause the first WTC attack. It burned up really well, contributing little or nothing to the deaths there.
Actually I think that Manhatten may approach Hong Kong
Hong Kong is the most densely populated place on Earth. Only 17% of the territory can be lived on because it is too steep to build on. I’ve been to Eeeeew Yuck several times and lived in HK for 15 years before coming to Guam. Hong Kong is exponentially more crowded
Sorry to be petulant but I hate NYC with such a passion I can’t let that pass
If it had affects on people in this event, we’d probably never be told anyway.
Novaya Zemlya.
Horsemuffins, I’m estimating upwards of 1,000 just by the blasted out office buildings themselves. Keep in mind they are not safe past the second floors to check out.
A city of 15 million people and such low death and casualty numbers - Chinese Government PR Control ... it will turn out to be — IF we ever get to know - to be in the thousands if not tens of thousands of dead...not to mention wounded...
I have watched the video dozens of time on the Asian news - extreme shock wave 15 miles away ,.. this thing was equal to one of the ATOM bombs dropped on Japan in blast effect... not heat nor radiation obviously but blast - threw shipping containers like legos...
Sodium cyanide dust thrown around.
The original first blast may have been aggravated by fire fighters dumping water on tons of Calcium Carbide which equals a flash wave of acetylene gas pouring off. The huge second explosion was probably tons of fertilizer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCc0fEJsPms
Wow! I hope China does not run out of people! They could be down to about 1.357 billion!
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