no that's just what some dude calculated based on population density and the force of the blast
Glad to see everyone in China holds their damn phone vertically while filming too![]()
11pm at night? Good time to minimize casualties from outdoor exposure to it.
New agencies are not reporting (thus far) anything close to 7K-70K thousand. They are talking 100 or so patients thus far. Those mostly from the shockwave -- can't believe there were 1,000s near the site.
The first explosion was followed by another 30 seconds later.
An official Chinese seismic agency said the force of the first explosion was equivalent to three tons of TNT, the second was 21 tons
Cnn reporting 50 people might have been killed?
That's from the "official government" figure. Know them chicom always lower the bad numbers and jack up the good numbers.
From the video and the map, I expect the final tally would be a lot higher because of the population density and the power of the multiple blasts.
The blasts were not really near the population density of the city, they were out in the harbor.
AFAIK there were quite a few skyscraper apartment buildings nearby.
The blasts were not really near the population density of the city, they were out in the harbor.
The city's population is over 7 million people. I haven't been to china yet but have been to numerous cities in Asia (developed and developing) and let me tell you, the population density of those cities are a lot higher than anywhere in the US, even NYC.
We will wait and see. If and when the chicom government would release the correct numbers.
Yeah, I did not realize how densely populated Tianjin is. Over 14 million according to Wiki.![]()
This reminds me of the Texas City disaster where two ships with about 3000 tons of ammonium nitrate fertilizer blew up in 1947.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_City_disaster
That disaster killed over 500 people and threw a 2 ton anchor over 1.5 miles.
This explosion in China looks to be similar. There could easily be hundreds dead. The only hope is since it was night maybe most people were home.
And that disaster had a TNT equivalent of ~3 kT. If this is indeed a 21 kT (TNT equiv.) explosion - it's going to be very bad news.
Why are some news services reporting just 7 dead? That's extremely distasteful when its clear hundreds if not thousands have lost there lives at minimum, its better to report nothing and wait until you can make a proper estimate.