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[–]cheweh 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (4 children)

I came up with 1kt earlier just by looking at the video and using nuke map. The fireball extends up to the neighboring building without going past it, which matches about the 1kt fireball radius.

[–]FediNetizen[S] 4 insightful - 4 fun4 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 4 fun -  (3 children)

Nice. Given we now know it was 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate, which has a relative effectiveness (coefficient of explosive power relative to same mass of TNT) of 0.42, you have a raw max of 1.155kt equivalent. However, you can assume it wasn't arranged to explode optimally, so about 1kt seems like a pretty reasonable estimate.

Thank god it was in a port with only a couple of industrial buildings in the immediate vicinity. Otherwise instead of thousands of injuries it might have been thousands of deaths.

[–]Zahn 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

This is the nicest thing you've said in a long time.

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