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Old 08-05-2020, 07:33 PM
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Interesting reading about other, similar explosions for those who fall down wikiholes:

Halifax Explosion: French ship carrying high explosives collides with another ship outside Halifax, Nova Scotia, and explodes, killing 2,000, injuring 9,000, and wiping out part of the city. The explosion also caused a tsunami that wiped out a nearby First Nation settlement.

Port Chicago Disaster: Not far outside San Francisco, 1944, US Navy taskmasters supervise mostly black, untrained enlistedmen in loading munitions into ships to go blow up Japanese and Germans. Units have speed-loading competitions and bets with each other, literally resulting in loading crews chucking live munitions into hatches. Eventually somebody drops something too hard and everything explodes, killing 320 and wounding 390. Pieces of the ship's anchor were flung 12,000 feet into the air, landing high on the slopes of nearby Mt. Diablo.
 


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