5 of the biggest explosions in the universe
Fire cargo ship SS.Grandcamp when docked in Texas in 1947, detonated 2,300 tons of ammonium nitrate, which is a compound used in fertilizers and high explosives. The explosion even blew two planes in flight and trigger a chain reaction to blow up oil refineries and other cargo ships in the vicinity which are carrying 1,000 tons of ammonium nitrate. Disaster killed about 600 people and injured about 3,500, and is generally regarded as the worst industrial accident in US history.
4. The Halifax Explosion.
In 1917, a French cargo ship laden explosives for World War I collided with a Belgian vessel in the port of Halifax, Kanada.Kapal It exploded with more force than man-made bomb explosion before it, that is the equivalent of about 3 kilotons of TNT , The explosion made a white smoke billowing high as 20,000 feet (6,100 meters) above the city and triggered a tsunami reached as high as 60 feet (18 meters). For nearly 1.2 miles (2 km) surrounding the blast center, total destruction, and about 2,000 people were killed and 9,000 injured. Blows of broken glass from the explosion that reverberated in the cities around it has blinded thousands, even tens of anchors thrown twenty miles from the point of beginning.
3. Chernobyl explosion.
In 1986, a nuclear reactor at Chernobyl in Ukraine (soviet) exploded. It was the worst nuclear accident in history. The blast, which blew the 2,000-ton lid off the reactor, sent out 400 times more radioactive fallout than the Hiroshima bomb, contaminating more than 77,000 square miles (200,000 sq km) in Europe. Roughly 600,000 people were exposed to high doses of radiation, and more than 350,000 people had to be evacuated from contaminated areas. Also accidental explosion've discussed this in my blog.
2. The Trinity Blast.
The first atomic bomb in history, dubbed "the gadget," was detonated at the Trinity Site near Alamogordo, NM, in 1945, exploded with a force of about 20 kilotons of TNT. Nuclear weapons later ended the World War II era and ushered in decades of fear of nuclear annihilation (Hiroshima Nagasaki bombing). Scientists have recently found that civilians in New Mexico may have been exposed to thousands of times higher due to radiation from the recommended limit.
1. Tunguska explosion.
Podkamennaya mysterious explosion near the Tunguska River in 1908 flattened some 500,000 hectares (2,000 square kilometers) of Siberian forest, an area nearly the size of Tokyo. Scientists think the blast was caused by a cosmic impact from an asteroid or comet perhaps 65 feet (20 meters) in diameter and 185,000 metric tons in mass - more than seven times that of the Titanic. The resulting explosion could have been as strong as four megatons of TNT - 250 times more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
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