China explosions: Fires still burning after Tianji

I'd be laughing as well... But out of fear.

There's a cover up. This a terrorist attack. (If this happened in the US lol)

any casualties reported?

early today reuters report is over 80 deaths and 750 injured :/

which to me is shockingly little with this type of explosion in a city of 11million

it does seem very little, I'd have expected thousands of people to be dead or something

unreal

Wow, devastating. Here's some food for thought about the size of the explosion:

On August 15 2015 11:09 Liquid`Drone wrote: I think laughter is a really common initial response to this type of happening and there's no point in criticizing that.

On August 15 2015 17:18 Liquid`Drone wrote: which to me is shockingly little with this type of explosion in a city of 11million

I was happening to reddit just as it was happening, so I sat and read about it for some hours. I think it started with an incident at a gas station, and two trucks. So people were already concerned, the police and fire department was already called in. Warning was out, people nearby was already panicking.

I also remember reading something about traffic was heavy, a lot of people trying to get away from the area. And the explosion was near the dock, a chemical plant. So not as heavy as a residential area. These things combined probably made the casualties a lot lower. (But I did read that the initial blast vaporized all the nearby first on the scene people).

On August 16 2015 09:38 Mariuslol wrote: But I did read that the initial blast vaporized all the nearby first on the scene people.

Before the first explosion you can actually see fire truck lights at the impending blast site. At least it was quick.....i hope..

holy shit

Is the government supposed to cover diaster costs in such cases? Who pays for the damage? Do you just get fucked if it blows your home up?

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In before...

it was Russia

On August 18 2015 03:18 Rapoza wrote: Still very hard to buy an "accident" could cause an explosion of this magnitude. But again, its China, anything is possible.

Facepalm..

Actually quite the opposite it would be very difficult NOT to be accident, this explosion was too big to be a bomb, not even MOAB has that kind of energy, apparently tons of chemicals reacted in the presence of water from the firemen

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@ Rapoza - how you worded it, it made it sound like it was some kind of conspiracy act.

As for it being an accident vs negligence, it's pretty common knowledge that China skirts the rules on damn near everything.

https://www.liquidpoker.net/poker-for...68/China_gives_zero_fucks_thread.html

china zero fucks policy in play

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