[Red Badger]

Check this Twitter video and see the sparkles in the fire and smoke at the bottom just seconds before the blast. You must look closely............

https://twitter.com/borzou/status/1290675854767513600?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1290675854767513600%7Ctwgr%5E&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.usatoday.com%2Fstory%2Fnews%2Fworld%2F2020%2F08%2F05%2Fbeirut-blast-7-different-angles-widely-filmed-due-prior-smoke%2F3297518001%2F

[metmom]

Somehow, watching that blast never gets old.

It’s amazing how FAST it went.

[CedarDave]

This view from the Mediterranean is the best view of the blast and it looks very much like a small nuclear explosion.

https://videos.dailymail.co.uk/video/mol/2020/08/04/8781040954312798854/640x360_MP4_8781040954312798854.mp4

[blueplum]

Fireworks?

[House Atreides]

There’s another video “out there” that was taken closer to the fire. Before the “big” explosion there were a whole series of small explosions in that fire that sounded and looked very much, from my experience, like Ordnance “cooking off”.