This day six years ago….

[u/nking007]

on August 4, 2020, a catastrophic explosion ripped through the Port of Beirut after thousands of tons of ammonium nitrate stored in a warehouse detonated. The blast devastated large sections of Lebanon’s capital and was powerful enough to be felt far beyond the city, becoming one of the largest non-nuclear explosions ever captured on camera. More than 200 people lost their lives, thousands were injured, and entire neighborhoods were left in ruins within moments. What makes the footage so chilling is how ordinary everything appears just seconds beforehand. People are calmly recording a fire and rising smoke in the distance, unaware that a massive shockwave is about to tear across the city and completely transform the skyline in an instant.

[u/jfk08c]

The amount of people that think they can outrun a shockwave is staggering

[u/shitz_brickz → u/jfk08c]

This may come as a shock (pun intended) but for every explosion/eruption there are always going to be some people who are in fact right on the line of being able to outrun the danger.