Massive explosion reported in Chinese city of Tianjin

Data said:
So now we have to find out how much volume of a particular substance (the ones claimed) will produce 4400 t TNT explosive power -- and see if they fit into one or several standard shipping containers.

A standard large 40 ft shipping container has a volume of about 67 cubic metres. http://www.deploymentessentials.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Shipping-Container-Dimensions-40-Foot-and-20-Foot-Container.png

1 kt of TNT is 605 cubic meters. (Or a cube 8.46 metres on each side - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TNT_equivalent )

So a shipping container full of TNT would have an explosive potential of about 0.11 kt TNT, or 110 t TNT.

The density and potential explosive energy of ammonium nitrate seems to be roughly similar to TNT, i.e. they are not a whole order of magnitude different. For example:
Other estimates claim that the 1995 explosion that collapsed portions of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City contained 4,800 pounds of ammonium nitrate and fuel oil. Later estimates suggested that the bomb had in excess of 6,200 pounds of various energetic materials, including explosives other than ANFO, equivalent to 5,000 pounds of TNT.
- http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/munitions/explosives-anfo.htm

Density of ammonium nitrate: Density: 1 oz/in³ (1.73 g/cm³) http://www.bing.com/search?q=ammonium+nitrate&form=IE10TR&src=IE10TR&pc=MASMJS
Density of TNT: 0.96 oz/in³ (1.65 g/cm³) http://www.bing.com/search?q=tnt%20explosive&qs=n&form=QBRE&pq=tnt%20explosive&sc=8-13&sp=-1&sk=&cvid=0F76336AE40A4B559DC129E0F72F9B84

So I don't think 1 shipping container of ammonium nitrate would make a 4400 t TNT blast, or a 1200 t TNT blast (based on a smaller 66m diameter crater).

Unless there are errors or false assumptions in the above, I think it would take eleven 40 ft shipping containers of TNT, or an approximately similar number of containers of ammonium nitrate, e.g. 13 or 14 containers, to make a 1200t TNT blast, or forty 40 ft containers of TNT, or about 50 containers of ammonium nitrate, to make a 4400 t TNT blast.
 
Yes you're missing the cube root from the equation on page 14 (written as a superscript "1/3").

Aha. Thanks for clarifying!

All the underground fuel tanks that I know off have some sort of ventilation stack or pressure relief valve so perhaps there was a "charge cloud" above the tank creating a conducting path to the ground through the tank itself.

Yes, I was thinking something similar too.
 
BOOM! Another explosion in China: Fires at Shandong chemical plant

http://www.sott.net/article/300535-Another-explosion-in-China-Fires-at-Shandong-chemical-plant

_https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJzrEjtUKq8
 
An update:

China starts cleanup after Tianjin blasts, arrests officials and warehouse managers
http://www.marketinggum.com/news/china-starts-cleanup-after-tianjin-blasts-arrests-officials-and-warehouse-managers/

China has arrested 23 people under criminal charges tied to the Tianjin blasts, state media said.

Among the arrested are the the chairman, vice-chairman and three deputy managers of the warehouse that exploded, as well as officials from various state departments and customs officers, said Xinhua.

The massive explosion on Aug. 12 has so far racked up 139 deaths, with 34 people missing still.

These arrests come a day after the government sacked the chief of the State Administration of Work Safety, Yang Dongliang. Chinese media said Yang is being investigated for a "severe violation of discipline and law" — a euphemism the Communist Party has used in the past for corruption.

While China hasn't said officially that Yang was connected to the warehouse that exploded, it's likely that the disaster is part of the picture. The warehouse owner, Ruihai International Logistics, did not have the license to handle hazardous chemicals until two months before the explosion, but worked with those chemicals for over a year.

The government confirmed that at the time of the blast, the warehouse was carrying 700 tonnes of sodium cyanide — 70 times the legal limit. Days after it blew up, cyanide levels in the water at the port reached 277 times the acceptable standard, as hundreds of thousands of dead fish washed up ashore.
 
The Veterans Today site posted an interesting analysis of the Tianjin explosion. They are convinced that it was a mini nuke, thus their conclusions are foregone, but this is still the best look at the evidence in the aftermath that I have found.

_http://www.veteranstoday.com/2015/08/25/confirmation-tianjin-was-nuked/
 
Rabelais said:
The Veterans Today site posted an interesting analysis of the Tianjin explosion. They are convinced that it was a mini nuke, thus their conclusions are foregone, but this is still the best look at the evidence in the aftermath that I have found.

_http://www.veteranstoday.com/2015/08/25/confirmation-tianjin-was-nuked/

The article says:

Note the crater is about 400 feet wide as measured by comparison to the standard shipping container sizes of 40 feet.

The two most common containers sizes seem to be 20 ft long by 8 ft wide, and 40ft long by 8 ft wide.

The 20ft containers would have a length to width ratio of 2.5 : 1.
The 40ft containers would have a length to width ratio of 5 : 1.

The ratio (length: width) of what can be seen of the containers near the crater looks more like 2.5 : 1.
So perhaps they are using the wrong container size for their estimate, and the width of the crater is 200 feet rather than 400 feet.
 
Mal7 said:
The ratio (length: width) of what can be seen of the containers near the crater looks more like 2.5 : 1.
So perhaps they are using the wrong container size for their estimate, and the width of the crater is 200 feet rather than 400 feet.

It appears that the diameter of the crater is well established at 400 feet from just about all sources.
 
Niall said:
Kisito said:
The services were about to discover
_http://www.naturalnews.com/050816_Tianjin_explosion_space-based_weapons_military_retaliation.html#

Haha, reading Mike Adams' stuff is like reading the latest 'Sorcha Faal'! Very entertaining stuff from the disinformation services.

He could be right about one thing though: the force of the explosion appears to have come from below ground.

Mike Adams has another article circulating, basically a repeat of his last one but has included this:
_http://www.naturalnews.com/051042_covert_war_China_mysterious_explosions.html

Now, as reported by The Daily Sheeple, a THIRD massive explosion has ripped through China's industrial infrastructure... this time also taking place in the Shandong province.

For full details on this latest explosion, you'll have to read little-known Chinese language websites such as this page from NTDTV.com which explains this latest explosion in great detail and even carries some new video not found elsewhere.

NTDTV.com - _http://www.ntdtv.com/xtr/b5/2015/09/01/a1220924.html

(Sorry - it's in Chinese but has several photo's.)
 
A fourth blast, this time in Zhejiang, has been reported.

Blast reported at chemical plant in eastern China
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/09/07/us-china-blast-idUSKCN0R711Z20150907

Mon Sep 7, 2015 -
An explosion shook a chemical plant in the Chinese province of Zhejiang, state media said on Monday, though there were no immediate reports of casualties in a country on edge after blasts killed more than 160 people last month.

The blast caused a fire and thick smoke to bellow from the plant in Lishui city shortly before midnight, state radio said on its official Weibo microblog.

Firefighters were on the scene and there were no immediate reports of casualties.

Chemical plant blasts are relatively common in China. At least five people died in an explosion at one in Shandong province last week.

On Aug. 12, explosions at a warehouse storing dangerous chemicals devastated an industrial park in the port city of Tianjin, killing more than 160 people.

Tianjin mayor Huang Xingguo said the city would step up controls on hazardous chemicals companies, according to media reports on Monday.

Reviewing new rules on the sector at a weekend meeting, Huang said priority would be given to strict standards on the hazardous chemicals business to "better protect people's lives and property", the Caixin news magazine reported.

The latest incident in Lishui will likely raise more questions about safety standards in China, where industrial accidents are all too common following three decades of fast economic growth. A blast at an auto-parts factory killed 75 people a year ago.


Video:

https://twitter.com/cctvnews/status/640838094300692481/photo/1
 
This one in Zhejiang province was already on SOTT for a while:

http://www.sott.net/article/301237-Another-blast-reported-at-chemical-plant-in-eastern-China
 
More massive explosions!

15 massive blasts in Guangxi, China: At least 6 killed, 13 injured, police blame explosive parcels
http://www.rt.com/news/317030-china-massive-blasts-liuzhou/

At least six people were killed and dozens injured after parcels containing explosives caused massive explosions in Liucheng county and Liuzhou city, in China's north-central Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, CCTV reported. A suspect has been identified.

Up to 15 explosions were heard across the city between 3.15pm and 5pm.

The locations included a shopping mall, a prison, a county government office, a supermarket, a transport station, a hospital, a staff dormitory of animal husbandry, a vegetable market, and a disease control center.


Massive blasts in Guangxi, China: At least 3 killed, 13 injured, police blame explosive parcels
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2015-09/30/c_134675883.htm


Liuzhou, China, Rocked by 'Massive' Explosions; 7 Dead, 50 Injured
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/china/liuzhou-china-rocked-massive-explosions-7-dead-50-injured-n436041
 
Another Report of a blast in Liucheng, southern China.

Another blast rocks China’s Liucheng County after series of deadly explosions
https://www.rt.com/news/317144-china-blast-liucheng-explosions/

Another explosion has rocked Liucheng County in southern China, damaging a six-story building on Thursday – less than a day after a series of more than a dozen blasts killed seven people and injured more than 50.

The Thursday blast targeted a civilian building near the highway administration bureau in Liucheng, according to Xinhua. It was not immediately clear whether there were any casualties.

Local police are expected to hold a press conference later on Thursday regarding the latest explosion and the series of 17 blasts which hit the region on Wednesday afternoon.


Could the "Uyghur Terror Network" be behind the latest blasts in China?

From Syria To Asia To Russia – Terror Network Organized By NATO and Turkey
http://www.activistpost.com/2015/10/from-syria-to-asia-to-russia-terror-network-organized-by-nato-and-turkey.html

Uyghur Terror Networks Span Continents, Have Root In Turkey and NATO.

With the possible entrance of China into the Syrian crisis, a spate of recent articles has appeared in various media outlets discussing the importance of Uyghur terrorism in China and the effect those acts may have on its decision whether or not to truly commit troops or other means of assistance to the Syrian government. These discussions, however, have typically been superfluous and tangential, rarely attributing the importance of the connections between the Syrian crisis and the Xinjang Uyghur separatist movement.

While many might suspect at first glance that the two crises are unrelated, the fact is that the same powers that control the savages raping and beheading their way across Syria also control the Uyghur “separatists” wreaking havoc in Xinjang China.

The reality is that the expansive network of Uyghur terror networks are by no means merely organic and spontaneous. They are a product of the same Western, NATO, and, specifically, Turkish intelligence networks that have created and directed al-Qaeda, al-Nusra, and ISIS.

The Power Behind The Uyghur Terror Networks

The most obvious culprit behind the Uyghur separatist movement in Xinjang if, for no other reason than its past history and current involvement in destabilizations all across the world, is, of course, the United States. After all, the United States has a vested geopolitical interest in the destabilization of China and has been involved with a number of other color revolutions and separatist movements in the past, including the ongoing “Umbrella Revolution” and the Tibet separatist movement in China alone.

The destabilization in Xinjang is yet another Western-backed movement designed to keep the Chinese economic powerhouse under control. For instance, the World Uyghur Congress, an international organization of “exiled Uyghur groups” that allegedly represents the “collective will” of the Uyghur people is nothing more than a Western/NATO front group. The WUC is directly funded by the US State Department through the National Endowment For Democracy (NED). On record, the NED provides the WUC with over a quarter of a million dollars every year.

The NED is responsible for organizing the WUC events and for most of the cost of doing so. Their annual meetings involve a number of Uyghur groups who come together with a host of Western officials, businessmen, and influence peddlers who attend to reaffirm their solidarity with the WUC Uyghur cause.

The fact that the United States is heavily involved in the promotion of Uyghur terrorism – while not widely known amongst the general public – is rather widely known amongst geopolitical analysts. However, what is rarely, if ever, discussed, is the connection between Uyghur terrorism and Turkey.

The history of the Uyghur people, shrouded as it may be in terms of historical research, traces itself back to Turkish ancestors. Hence, the connection between Turkey and Chinese Uyghurs that Turkish intelligence is able to grasp onto in order to create, maintain, and direct Uyghur terrorist organizations.

Operation Gladio, a NATO plan that was allegedly drafted in order to deal with a potential Soviet invasion of Europe, involved the creation of terrorist “stay behind” networks in order to create a guerrilla style resistance to Soviet invasion and occupation. While the guise of the creation of these networks revolved around potential Russian invasion, the reality was that these networks were turned against the domestic populations of the host European nations, used as false flag terror organizations, as well as operations to silence, intimidate, and kill political rivals.

Turkey was no exception to this rule and, out of Gladio, the terrorist network known as the “Grey Wolves” appeared, with the aid, supervision, and direction of NATO.


Even despite the fact that the Grey Wolves have inspired terror in the hearts of many Turks, the organization still has a potent effect on Turkish politics since it functions as the paramilitary wing of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), a party that currently holds the third largest number of seats in the Turkish parliament.

Although the Grey Wolves are ultra-Nationalist, described by some as neo-Nazi, the organization has branched out much further that simple “nationalist” cover.

Indeed, as Tony Cartalucci writes, “In essence, NATO’s stay-behind networks had become NATO’s “go-abroad” networks, projecting the same sort of violence, terrorism, and political coercion abroad after the Cold War that these networks carried out domestically during the Cold War.” This is because Turkish intelligence not only maintained their operations in Turkey but extended them to China’s Xinjang amongst other locations in Eurasia. The Grey Wolves “pan-Asian” movement represents both a cooperative attempt with the rest of NATO intelligence to subjugate all other potential rivals (China, Russia, etc.) as well as a feeble and futile attempt on the part of the Turkish elite to re-establish the Ottoman Empire.

Essentially, the use of the Grey Wolves as an international NATO-oriented terror organization for destabilization purposes acts as the unofficial military wing of the Uyghur-centric terror apparatus while the WUC represents the political wing.

Where Is Uyghur Terror Used?

As mentioned above, the use of Uyghur terror organizations has largely been confined to Xinjang province in China. This is, after all, the center of Uyghur destabilization. Over the course of the Syrian crisis, however, as jihadist forces organized by NATO, GCC, Israel, and Turkey have begun flooding into Syria from locations all across the world, the Uyghur contingent was not far behind.

Numerous reports of Uyghur terrorists operating in Syria began early on, with subsequent confirmation via photographs, witness testimony, and eventually video corroboration. Now, Syria is victim to Uyghur terrorist groups such as the Turkistan Islamic Party (TIP).
The TIP is active in China, Afghanistan, and Pakistan.

This information corroborates that provided by Afraa Dagher who reports that Uyghur terrorists were not only being used to fight the Syrian army and wage a war of terror against Syrian civilians but also that families were being moved into Idlib, particularly Jisr al-Shughour, in order to colonize the land. In this regard, Turkey’s fingerprints are all over the plan since Uyghurs have an ancestral link to Turkey and planting “Turks” in Syria would thus be a logical extension of the NATO/Neo-Ottoman plan. Thus, the colonization of a people more in line with jihadist elements of Turkish society in an area that borders Turkey is a logical progression of both the goal of the destabilization of the Syrian government, the erasure of Syrian culture, and the creation of a jihadist caliphate that will ultimately be a part of the new Ottoman Empire exemplifies the logic of Turkish oligarchs, intelligence communities, and megalomaniacs like Erdogan.

Thailand has also experienced a series of bombings related to the Grey Wolves and Uyghur terrorist networks. As Tony Cartalucci writes,

The Turkish-Uyghur terror network, in addition to fomenting violence across China, has more recently been trafficking terrorists from Xinjiang, through Southeast Asia, and onward to Turkey where they are staged, armed, trained, and then sent to fight NATO’s proxy war in Syria. This trafficking network apparently snaked its way through Thailand – exposed when Thailand detained over 100 Uyghurs which it then deported upon Beijing’s request back to China in July.

On the same day the deportations occurred WUC and NATO’s Grey Wolves organized violent protests in Turkey both in Ankara and at the Thai consulate in Istanbul during which the consulate was invaded and destroyed.

A month later, a devastating bomb would detonate in the heart of Bangkok, killing 20 mostly Chinese tourists and injuring over 100 more. In addition to the BBC already being on site before the blast, the British network would conclude even before bodies were cleared from the site that Uyghurs were likely behind the blast. This was done specifically to deflect blame from another US proxy, Thaksin Shinawatra, who has been attempting for years to regain power in Thailand.

In reality, Shinawatra and the Uyghur terrorists are both functions of the same Westesrn agenda to encircle and contain China by building up a “wall” of proxy states around Beijing, and if nothing else, to create chaos in which Beijing finds it nearly impossible to prosper.

What is perhaps most concerning regarding these two Western proxies is the fact that many past bombings associated with Shinawatra’s terrorist networks – networks which are extensive – match the methods used by Turkish-Uyghur terrorists making it likely that NATO’s extraterritorial networks New American Media reported on in 2009 being set up in China, are likely now dotting Uyghur trafficking routes throughout Southeast Asia as well.

The blast in Bangkok likely took place for a number of reasons. Not only did Thailand ignore US demands to release the detained Uyghurs to Turkey, as well as oust a long-cultivated US proxy – Thaksin Shinawatra – but it has been cultivating unmistakably closer ties to Beijing including the signing of major joint-infrastructure development projects, closer military cooperation, and even the potential procurement of 3 Chinese-made submarines – all of which US policymakers have been decrying with increasing indignation.

Yet while the “snake line” may traverse China, Southeast Asia, Turkey, and Syria, there is ample evidence this same terror network will soon be exported to target Russia inside Russian territory, particularly Crimea, this time using Tatars in the same method as Uyghurs are being used in China. In areas where Russia borders China, it is likely that the Uyghur outfit will be donned once again.

[...] It appears that Vladmir Putin is already well aware of the attempts by NATO and Turkey in particular to use terrorism against Russia inside the Russian borders. According to a report by Press TV, in recent visit to the Crimea, Putin stated “It’s obvious that a risk remains from outside forces to destabilize the situation on the [Crimean] peninsula in one way or another. In certain capitals they talk openly about … the need to carry out subversive activities. Personnel are being recruited and trained to carry out subversion, acts of sabotage to conduct radical propaganda.”
 
New explosion in Tianjin reported today (Oct 12th, 10:30 pm local time):

https://www.hongkongfp.com/2015/10/13/warehouse-explosion-rocks-tianjin-2-months-after-deadly-blasts/ said:
Warehouse explosion rocks Tianjin, 2 months after deadly blasts

The fireball from another chemical explosion rose over Tianjin Monday evening, just two months after massive explosions shook the north China port city.

No casualties have been reported from the fire, which broke out at a chemical warehouse in Xititou county, Beichen district at 10:30pm. The blaze has since been brought under control, according to local media reports.

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The 500-square-meter chemical warehouse involved in the fire is reported to have been unlicensed and had been illegally rented from a local resident. The fire was reportedly started due to “leaking alcohol materials” stored within.


State news agency Xinhua reported that 3,000 kilograms of alcohol and 1,000 kilograms of acetic acid were held in the facility. The materials are commonly used in the production of plastics and pharmaceuticals.

tianjinexplosion.jpg


This latest incident comes just two months after a series of blasts killed 173 and injured closed to 800 in the city of eight million.

In the aftermath of the deadly August explosions, it emerged that the warehouse where the blasts occurred contained many times the legally allowed amount of hazardous materials, and was located dangerously close to residential buildings.

Another article with little bit more "meat": http://www.ibtimes.com/tianjin-explosion-blast-warehouse-illegally-storing-chemicals-2-months-after-deadly-2138571
and better YT video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDX38Y4jh5s
 
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