Holy crap! Almost looks like a mini tactical nuke. MOAB?
Ammo dump or fireworks container
I thought the same.
I wonder how many people died?
What a tragedy.
Someone lighting farts.
Seems to be a fire first, with small, low order explosives going off that you can see from some angles. This is what people are saying was “fireworks storage”. That big explosion looks very much like a fuel-air explosion though.
MOAB and bombs like that create that kind of explosion, with this type of huge shockwave that happens afterwards. However, that kind of explosion can also happen more “naturally” as well. You just need some flammable material that is aerosolized, and then to have an explosion, or perhaps even just a spark, in that environment to create this effect.
Normally you would have a small explosion to aerosolize liquid fuel into the surroundings, then another explosion to detonate it. However, if you have a grain silo, where flammable material is already floating in the air everywhere, you don’t really need that first step to get this kind of explosion. If this were a fireworks production or storage facility, I could see some situation where the fire and the smaller explosions aerosolized either flash powder or some other flammable ingredient, and then it would just take one more small explosion for this to be the result.