this is beyond impressive, the integration of video, 3d model, timeline and other media is seamless and extremely clear. please make another video showing the tech and software - fascinating
Ammonium Nitrate isn't an explosive. It's an oxidizer. It's essentially like putting oxygen tanks in the building. Only AN isn't in gas form and it's much more condensed. It also produces nitrous oxide at 270°F
@@hlcepeda I am Lebanese, this is man-made, man-planned, man-controlled. The fireworks is just smoke and mirrors game. After this genocide, no single government entity stepped int to rescue, to help, to rebuilt, to apologize. In fact the allegedly so called government put more strain on the population by creating power outages, fuel outages, pushing 2 million descant Lebanese population to quit for good, and replacing them with 2 million non-Lebanese
If there's a Nobel price for a forensic team reasearch, this would win by far. Never seen something like this. The future looks good if it wasn't for politics.
Like being good matters to the Nobel clowns. Obama won a peace prize and he literally dropped more bombs than any other US president. A peace dove for sure.
The future looks good in spite of politics. Don't you ever forget, human politics is just a part of being human, and being human is practically NOTHING. So being part of practically nothing, I can't imagine human politics being so important. No, seriously, your comment, and my reply to it, are both unfathomably impertinent. 10 years from now neither of us are going to remember any of this. And what little we do remember will be clouded by everything that had happened since and is happening in that moment.
@@danielduncan6806 Maybe that's true for people living in the west who aren't touched by politics. In other countries this isn't the case. Whether it be wars or sanctions, borders being drawn, lives being lost. None of those things will be 'forgotten'. People won't forget being homeless for years in spite of surplus housing availability. People won't forget being hurt or attacked because of who they are.
Excellent video, very well put together. The footage taken by the firefighters at 5:48 is chilling. They had no idea they were walking into an enormous bomb, and at that point in time they would have been hard-pressed or outright unable to reach a minimum safe distance before it exploded even if they did come to realize it. They should never have been sent in there and the area should have been evacuated, this was a catastrophic failure of both safety protocols ahead of time and of effective communication in an emergency.
that's partly what (in theory) separates the developed world from developing nations - rules, oversight and consequences. Though rather than bringing the developing world up to standard, we're just lowering the developed nations to those less fortunate :(
The editing is - amazing. I’m out of words. Using 3D model overlapped by video truly makes us understand where the camera is situated and everything falls in order. Much much appreciated the way this video was made.
This is some of the most impressive analysis and presentation of immensely complex and technical reporting I've ever seen. You've presented it in a way that anyone can understand and extract the relevant information from. I intend on using this video as an example of how to do presentations and briefings!
i agree. before watching this it was like a chore finding out what happened and why. this told me way more than i even knew we had known in the first place.
Pretty good except he kept calling Ammonium Nitrate itself an explosive. Which it is not. It's an oxidizer that requires a fuel source. The fuel source is the explosive the AN is the source of oxygen or rather Nitrous oxide that makes the explosive a chain reaction not needing a container. Pipe bombs burn the air inside and create a pressure explosion. ANFO for example can be poured into a banana peel and be more dangerous than dynamite. Basically instead of creating pressure that ruptures, HE bombs release an incredible amount of energy at once. More similar to a nuclear bomb than a pipe bomb.
Because is not any special work, it's just a reconstruction. The event was a tragedy, but it's not a tragedy in the western world, and this channel mainly targets the west, and as someone else said, there is no political message attachable here (for now), it will get recommended by YT once there will be any political idea overlapping.
I'm actually amazed that more people weren't injured or killed. This made me think of the Halifax explosion that occured in Canada in 1917. Two ships collided in the harbour. One was loaded with explosives. It was one of the largest human-made explosions prior to the detonation of the first atomic bombs. The north end of Halifax was wiped out by the blast and subsequent tsunami. Nearly 2,000 people died, another 9,000 were maimed or blinded, and more than 25,000 were left without adequate shelter. I see this explosion in Beirut and it looks so huge and I wonder how much larger the one in Halifax must have been.
This is the best, most well documented and detailed 3D representation ever. I'm genuinely impressed by the amount of work that went into this and how advanced technology is these days, this video is a masterpiece.
Being at a car distance of 10 mins from the blast, the house i was in with my family shook, we thought it was an earthquake at first, the balcony glass broke, we huddled together until it ended. I can say that this is more accurate of a representation of the critical zone of the blast, the zaytouna bay area had the most damage, and where i lived (about 5 min away from raochè) there were less casualties , alhamdulilah my family and i survived and my heart goes out to all who suffered❤️ My gratitude goes for this video since it gave me an extensive insight as to what actually happened during the blast, (my knowledge of the incident other than the fact that i was terrified was very limited) its truly impressive how you managed to map out the whole ordeal from just investigation and minimal sources, you have inspired me to dig deep into this incident once more and give it a chance, maybe some closure will become of it, thank you
This video was immensely informative from beginning to end. I hope and pray for the healing of your people and nation of Lebanon 🇱🇧 from the UK 🇬🇧 God bless you and your family and every family and person effected by this disaster.
What's sad about ammonium nitrate incidents is they happen at fairly frequent intervals. Even the smaller incidents cause mass damage and tend to happen after a series of unusual events line up to set up a detonation of bulk AN. You can absolutely bet on the fact this incident will not stop the next. Ammonium nitrate just loves to misbehave when the correct conditions are allowed to stack up.
@@karhukivi I suspect the reason for it being relatively safely stored by quarries is that they're fully aware that you can, and in fact are going to, use this to shatter rock faces. If, on the other hand, you're trying to grow bananas, you'd presumably be more worried about people slipping on it.
Look at that shockwave dude does that seem like that happens by accident to you? Really? Homer Simpson backed his forklift into some fireworks and exploded the entire city, likely story
@@williambarringer6513 Every explosion has a shockwave. Chemical explosions have happened at many locations around the world, one I remember (because I was near there) happened in a fertilizer factory in Toulouse France Sept 2001 killing 31 people and injuring 2,500. Heard 50 miles away. Same problem - mishandling.
That's the roof of the grain elevator mezzanine. He may have been fifty meters or less to the point of detonation of the main blast. He died so quickly he never noticed.
@@_LBH_i highly doubt he got away in time, being able to record this and post it to social media would’ve taken ~4 minutes i’d say + he probably didn’t realize that a giant explosive (ammonium nitrate) would be set off in less than 10 minutes
If you're not familiar with Lebanon, you'd be amazed at the level of ineptitude. The govt, if it can even be called that, is built on corruption, nepotism and crime and while that's been the norm for decades, the addition of the pandemic, this explosion, the recent banking collapse and now, a cholera epidemic has turned Lebanon into essentially a failed state.
WOW !!! When I saw the explosion on the TV News, I was completely dumbfounded with the ferocity of the explosion and, how much damage occurred. This was a complete, easy to follow explanation of the timeline and progression of the incident. I'll bet that the officials of THAT city will be much more cautious in the future relating to the storage of Hazardous Materials amongst resident population. Very well done. TYSVM for the explanation and accompanying diagram.
Einer der besten, wenn nicht die beste forensische Analyse (englisch), die ich je gesehen habe! Danke für die enorme Arbeit und die Veröffentlichung, die Menschen wollen ja die Wahrheit wissen, und Sie haben mit diesem Video großartige Arbeit für die Aufklärung geleistet!
This is SUCH a good production, just absolutely amazing work melding video and photo media with 3d modeling. Stellar work here. It's damned disgusting to me that there was such gross negligence happening there for so many years. Anyone could spend a mere two minutes on Google and turn up incident after incident involving large amounts of AN detonating directly due to extreme negligence. One would think that this sort of thing would be easily prevented, if only those responsible for ensuring the safety of these well known hazardous materials had been doing their jobs.
The fact that detonating cord was stored there should not be a side note - in my opinion, it is a fact of major importance. Det cord uses PETN, a secondary explosive that can easily be brought to full detonation in larger scale just by heat. It is a very poweful explosive, that sureöy has acted as a kind of booster to set of the full AN detonation. Without det cod, the ignition of a pure AN detonation seemed hard to realize, but WITH it the whole story makes way more sense. There is no such thing as a "slow" detonation cord btw.
There are certainly two speeds in military use, I've used them in the Royal Engineers, quite apart from different speeds of fuse. The quirk here is that the percussive effect is central to the line of "rope", and can fail to detonate if it doesn't terminate in the explosive. It can, however, be turned into an improvised primer, which is good to know if you're likely to have them in battle.
@@RandySeverino Not entirely. The question was whether it was an accident or not. The way those cargo bags were dumped speaks to laziness and ignorance. The fireworks? Well, I've been trained in explosives by the military, and there's also a thriving stream of civil thrill-seekers on here, from the dumb-ass suggestions this AI comes up with, some of which are candidates for the Darwin prize for short life-expectancy. That makes it very possible the fireworks were no accident.
@@RandySeverino The problem is, you're in a dream world. Get real. This could have been political. There were plenty of forces motivated to devastate this capital, both inside the country (religious fundamentalists), outside (Syria, Russia, Israel) and international (ISIS, some Civil engineering operations - just an overblown example of "job's almost finished, we'll accidentally leave a blowtorch on so we get paid three times as much to rebuild"). One coincidence I might buy (amol and fireworks). Two (det cord as well, so you've got all three ingredients - primer, explosive and accelerant - for a legendary bomb), that's pushing things.
Bravo to the creators of this video. If only mainstream news went to this level of detail in covering tragedies then they might be trusted. Sadly, its more important to report a story quickly rather than accurately.
this video manages to showcase extreme incompetence (the warehouse) and unbelievable competence (the makers of the 3d model, and this video) at the same time.
Still under 20k... I don't think the majority of people understand how incredibly impressive this video is, especially if you have never worked with CAD programs at all
Holy hell. I was just wondering the other day there are so many "compilation" videos on TH-cam if it is possible to algorithmically stitch them together to create a cohesive map. And apparently my idea was old by about 2 years !! excellent video by Forensic Architecture team.
Most impressive analysis video I have ever seen on TH-cam. Thank you to the algorithm for recommending this to me and kudos for the whole production team!
This is so cool. I mean, the explosion wasnt, but the way you guys made this video is incredibly interesting. I love the half 3d model, half video perspective. Super impressive.
Beautiful 3d visualisation and modelling, kudos to the whole team. However I did not expect a single photograph can reveal the exact coordinates of the photographer by correlating neighbouring buildings, that was very spooky and unnerving to watch. It’s a privacy nightmare.
This was absolutely fascinating on so many levels, I scarcely know where to begin.... so I won't. Kudos to your team and thank you for all you've done. Hopefully this will help those still in need of answers and, especially, compensation, find both.
This is the first clip we've watched from your channel, and we found it very well done. My husband's dad was an architect all his life and my husband has done years in engineering. It was good how everything was shown on a CAD model and patched together from the footage obtained. This whole thing is a prime example of gross negligence and absolutely no regard to safety in the storage of potentially explosive materials. It seems like nobody knew what else was in this warehouse when they just basically dumped it in there and forgot about it.
Very informative, until I viewed this, I was unaware of the actual location of the storage, believing the storage location was the tall silo structures adjacent to the actual location. I was aware of the fireworks stored near, but not the car tires. The people and country of Lebanon have suffered so terribly in the last several decades, this horrible tragedy, that was completely avoidable, is one more awful event to be foisted upon the people of Lebanon.
I saw a video where the man was filming the fire. The woman heard a jet coming and said please let’s go inside now, Not 1 second before the blast. I think the ammonium nitrate was given a helping hand. If you search you should find the video on you tube.
Very interesting video! 👍🏻 I remember when this happened there was a video of a wedding reception just outside the epicentre. The wedding party was fortunately unscathed but the shockwave was filmed barrelling up the street toward them. I wish I could provide a link for the video. The fact the bride was uncommonly beautiful made that particular video stick in my mind. Many other souls were not as fortunate as that group of individuals. Very sad state of affairs.
I was morbidly fascinated by this explosion from the first news of it happening. As soon as I saw the colour of the smoke after the main explosion, I knew it was ammonium nitrate, or, as I've known it in the mining and transport industry, Nitropril. I lived and worked around central Queensland, Australia for many years. It is a major coal mining area in Australia with mostly Open-cut mining being employed. Nitropril transport and storage areas were a common site, and the main manufacturing plant for these explosives was located south of Rockhampton, the main city in the region, and Gladstone, the export hub for the coal, and a chemical manufacturing area. The plant (at Bajool) had entry requirements that were arguably as strict as a high security prison (I've delivered to both). I did Dangerous Goods transport training (for road and air) and was graphically educated about the dangers of Ammonium Nitrate and other potentially explosive chemicals and compounds. Anyway, I wanted to say thanks for this video. It is very comprehensive.
My exact thought when they showed that footage. Way too close. EDIT: Looking at the news reports, the entire fire brigade from the footage at 6:00 was killed. Nine firefighters and a paramedic.
2:27 it's kinda clear from this footage what was going on. Source of the fire: the piles of tires. The fire then spreads to the firework piles right across it. The fireworks detonated, flying all over the place and some reached the ammonium nitrate sacks and kaboom...
A lot of the people recording these videos didn't make it. Could say they literally died for this footage. I'm glad you were able to use it in such a respectful educational way.
partial recorrection - ammonium nitrate does not combust as it is only an oxidizer but it can spontaneously decompose by itself if at a high temperature---- Here is the full reaction of that explosion.--- NH4NO3(s){white powder in bags before} → NO2( g){orange smoke} + H2O( g){water vapour} let me just ay this was a great in depth video
Great work. Let me note that when people upload videos to TH-cam, the videos that appear on TH-cam are not always accurate when compared with "true real time". From my experience, uploading a video can impact the speed of the video (frames per second) by a few percentage points. Did you have to re-synchronize the uploaded videos' speed with each others'? I've had to do that.
This is perfect. Some days we'll put together all the thousands of pieces of video into a 3D simulation and you'll be able to walk the holodeck inside this.
In India, Chennai...the day when the Beirut explosion happened, many local news channels also reported the presence of Ammonium nitrate chemical storage in the Chennai port ! Which meant that Ammonium nitrate is a very common chemical substance....and it could possibly be present in many places and ports . This just sends chills through my spine. 🥶
It amazes me just how much valuable information was collected to allow such an impressively accurate and detailed mapping. Documentation ovetall is becoming much more detailed and precise thanks to how accessibile good quality cameras have become. The 2020 explosion is possibly the best documented large scale detonation incident of all time.
It's stunning, the level of carelessness with storing ammonium nitrate in such a way, it was only a matter of time before this was going to happen... and fireworks in the same building!!
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this is beyond impressive, the integration of video, 3d model, timeline and other media is seamless and extremely clear. please make another video showing the tech and software - fascinating
I came to make that very comment. Its extremely impressive !
Agree. Very comprehensive, gives the big picture in a short period of time too.
And a great narrator with a cool voice.
Agree ! 👌
I know right. This is the most detailed and comprehensive video I’m ever likely to see on the topic.
"where should we put this explosive ammonium nitrate?"
"Uh idk how about in between the fireworks and the detonating cord?"
Mr funny guy over here
It was the opposite order of events but point taken
Ammonium Nitrate isn't an explosive. It's an oxidizer.
It's essentially like putting oxygen tanks in the building. Only AN isn't in gas form and it's much more condensed.
It also produces nitrous oxide at 270°F
This sums up this video and the whole event pretty well. You expressed the absurdity vividly.
Real
The negligence which preceded this disaster is absolutely unbelievable.
Great video
As a former journalist and current part time 3D/VFX artist, I stand in awe of the amount of work and dedication you put into this. Just bananas.
The fact that it only killed 200 is remarkable when you see the magnitude of that blast.
Injure ..1, 000 more..
Read Wikipedia...russian own fronted to Others..
15 billion damage ..
Many officials resigned..
Several on Legal charges..
In all, it makes clear what can happen when safety regulations are lax and are not even enforced.
Mainly because it was already burning prior to the blast, which means enough people would have kept away from the area
@@hlcepeda the only reason it was there was because of corruption doing a shake down of the transport company
@@hlcepeda I am Lebanese, this is man-made, man-planned, man-controlled. The fireworks is just smoke and mirrors game. After this genocide, no single government entity stepped int to rescue, to help, to rebuilt, to apologize. In fact the allegedly so called government put more strain on the population by creating power outages, fuel outages, pushing 2 million descant Lebanese population to quit for good, and replacing them with 2 million non-Lebanese
If there's a Nobel price for a forensic team reasearch, this would win by far. Never seen something like this. The future looks good if it wasn't for politics.
They were nominated for the UK Turner Prize but didn't win it unfortunately.
Like being good matters to the Nobel clowns. Obama won a peace prize and he literally dropped more bombs than any other US president. A peace dove for sure.
The future looks good in spite of politics. Don't you ever forget, human politics is just a part of being human, and being human is practically NOTHING. So being part of practically nothing, I can't imagine human politics being so important. No, seriously, your comment, and my reply to it, are both unfathomably impertinent. 10 years from now neither of us are going to remember any of this. And what little we do remember will be clouded by everything that had happened since and is happening in that moment.
@@danielduncan6806thats true in an objective sense, but we don't live objective lives
@@danielduncan6806 Maybe that's true for people living in the west who aren't touched by politics. In other countries this isn't the case. Whether it be wars or sanctions, borders being drawn, lives being lost. None of those things will be 'forgotten'. People won't forget being homeless for years in spite of surplus housing availability. People won't forget being hurt or attacked because of who they are.
Amazing work. The team should be commended!
Excellent video, very well put together. The footage taken by the firefighters at 5:48 is chilling. They had no idea they were walking into an enormous bomb, and at that point in time they would have been hard-pressed or outright unable to reach a minimum safe distance before it exploded even if they did come to realize it. They should never have been sent in there and the area should have been evacuated, this was a catastrophic failure of both safety protocols ahead of time and of effective communication in an emergency.
Absolutely
Corruption at all levels with the man in the street to take the hit.@@ServantProfessional
I don't think they had ANY idea that there was explosives in there, they were sent to put the fire out.
that's partly what (in theory) separates the developed world from developing nations - rules, oversight and consequences. Though rather than bringing the developing world up to standard, we're just lowering the developed nations to those less fortunate :(
The editing is - amazing. I’m out of words. Using 3D model overlapped by video truly makes us understand where the camera is situated and everything falls in order. Much much appreciated the way this video was made.
This is some of the most impressive analysis and presentation of immensely complex and technical reporting I've ever seen. You've presented it in a way that anyone can understand and extract the relevant information from. I intend on using this video as an example of how to do presentations and briefings!
i agree. before watching this it was like a chore finding out what happened and why. this told me way more than i even knew we had known in the first place.
Pretty good except he kept calling Ammonium Nitrate itself an explosive. Which it is not.
It's an oxidizer that requires a fuel source. The fuel source is the explosive the AN is the source of oxygen or rather Nitrous oxide that makes the explosive a chain reaction not needing a container.
Pipe bombs burn the air inside and create a pressure explosion.
ANFO for example can be poured into a banana peel and be more dangerous than dynamite.
Basically instead of creating pressure that ruptures, HE bombs release an incredible amount of energy at once.
More similar to a nuclear bomb than a pipe bomb.
i dont understand who this video has ONLY 109k views ... the amount of work and detail here is on next level.
thanks
theres a different language version which has 5 million (?) views iirc
Because there's no outrage or pollitics attached to it.
Because is not any special work, it's just a reconstruction. The event was a tragedy, but it's not a tragedy in the western world, and this channel mainly targets the west, and as someone else said, there is no political message attachable here (for now), it will get recommended by YT once there will be any political idea overlapping.
because true knowledge has no value in today's world
My boy doing FBI statistic at 0:47 like a boss
I'm actually amazed that more people weren't injured or killed. This made me think of the Halifax explosion that occured in Canada in 1917. Two ships collided in the harbour. One was loaded with explosives. It was one of the largest human-made explosions prior to the detonation of the first atomic bombs. The north end of Halifax was wiped out by the blast and subsequent tsunami. Nearly 2,000 people died, another 9,000 were maimed or blinded, and more than 25,000 were left without adequate shelter. I see this explosion in Beirut and it looks so huge and I wonder how much larger the one in Halifax must have been.
It was between 3 to 4 times stronger than beirut. They found one the ships anchor 4 km~ away from the port. Or 2.5 miles~
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WOW!!! 😱
The work carried out to get this level of detail is amazing!
This is possibly the coolest breakdown I have ever seen. Please do more stuff in this exact format.
This is the best, most well documented and detailed 3D representation ever. I'm genuinely impressed by the amount of work that went into this and how advanced technology is these days, this video is a masterpiece.
Being at a car distance of 10 mins from the blast, the house i was in with my family shook, we thought it was an earthquake at first, the balcony glass broke, we huddled together until it ended. I can say that this is more accurate of a representation of the critical zone of the blast, the zaytouna bay area had the most damage, and where i lived (about 5 min away from raochè) there were less casualties , alhamdulilah my family and i survived and my heart goes out to all who suffered❤️
My gratitude goes for this video since it gave me an extensive insight as to what actually happened during the blast, (my knowledge of the incident other than the fact that i was terrified was very limited) its truly impressive how you managed to map out the whole ordeal from just investigation and minimal sources, you have inspired me to dig deep into this incident once more and give it a chance, maybe some closure will become of it, thank you
May you get your answers and justice 🙏🏾.Please don't lose sight of yourself or your family in the process. Much love and strength from the R.S.A.🙏🏾
This video was immensely informative from beginning to end. I hope and pray for the healing of your people and nation of Lebanon 🇱🇧 from the UK 🇬🇧 God bless you and your family and every family and person effected by this disaster.
yo why does people speak english in most of the videos? im pretty sure yall speak arabic nromally
@@matteo_italiaroblox Wow man are you really not able to comprehend why he´s speaking english in YT comments/videos? That´s straight up sad.
@@KokosNaSnehu2 mf im talking about the people in the collection of videos of the exposion, anyone who doesnt have a mental disability can understand
What's sad about ammonium nitrate incidents is they happen at fairly frequent intervals. Even the smaller incidents cause mass damage and tend to happen after a series of unusual events line up to set up a detonation of bulk AN. You can absolutely bet on the fact this incident will not stop the next. Ammonium nitrate just loves to misbehave when the correct conditions are allowed to stack up.
It is regularly used in quarry blasting all over the world with hardly any incidents. The problem is storage in unsuitable locations.
@@karhukivi I suspect the reason for it being relatively safely stored by quarries is that they're fully aware that you can, and in fact are going to, use this to shatter rock faces. If, on the other hand, you're trying to grow bananas, you'd presumably be more worried about people slipping on it.
Liars!!!
Look at that shockwave dude does that seem like that happens by accident to you? Really? Homer Simpson backed his forklift into some fireworks and exploded the entire city, likely story
@@williambarringer6513 Every explosion has a shockwave. Chemical explosions have happened at many locations around the world, one I remember (because I was near there) happened in a fertilizer factory in Toulouse France Sept 2001 killing 31 people and injuring 2,500. Heard 50 miles away. Same problem - mishandling.
4:40 poor person had no idea they were about to be evaporated. God bless all those who were hurt or lost to the explosion.
That's the roof of the grain elevator mezzanine. He may have been fifty meters or less to the point of detonation of the main blast. He died so quickly he never noticed.
He still had about 12 minutes to get away from the explosion, so he might've survived
@@_LBH_i highly doubt he got away in time, being able to record this and post it to social media would’ve taken ~4 minutes i’d say + he probably didn’t realize that a giant explosive (ammonium nitrate) would be set off in less than 10 minutes
When people complain about regulations, this is why we have them and why the should be enforced.
The people who complain about regulations will watch this and still not care in the slightest.
Great presentation, wow. I can't believe they stored that stuff with the *fireworks.*
Literal ignition cable
If you're not familiar with Lebanon, you'd be amazed at the level of ineptitude. The govt, if it can even be called that, is built on corruption, nepotism and crime and while that's been the norm for decades, the addition of the pandemic, this explosion, the recent banking collapse and now, a cholera epidemic has turned Lebanon into essentially a failed state.
This video is criminally underrated and masterfully overproduced. I wish this extremely talented computer animation got the appreciation it deserves.
That work is definitely underrated
Well, this is exceptional work!
The infuriating nature of the issue and the tragedy aside, this is an incredible reconstruction.
Stupid dumb corrupt humans.
it is so cool to watch and know that some people analyze this stuff to make the world a safer place
Incredibly interesting, thanks for putting this together!
WOW !!! When I saw the explosion on the TV News, I was completely dumbfounded with the ferocity of the explosion and, how much damage occurred. This was a complete, easy to follow explanation of the timeline and progression of the incident.
I'll bet that the officials of THAT city will be much more cautious in the future relating to the storage of Hazardous Materials amongst resident population. Very well done. TYSVM for the explanation and accompanying diagram.
Thank you. It is so refreshing to have content of this quality on TH-cam.
Einer der besten, wenn nicht die beste forensische Analyse (englisch), die ich je gesehen habe! Danke für die enorme Arbeit und die Veröffentlichung, die Menschen wollen ja die Wahrheit wissen, und Sie haben mit diesem Video großartige Arbeit für die Aufklärung geleistet!
this is probably the most well put together youtube video I've ever seen, so fascinating, I love ur 3d models
This reconstruction is incredibly impressive.
This is SUCH a good production, just absolutely amazing work melding video and photo media with 3d modeling. Stellar work here. It's damned disgusting to me that there was such gross negligence happening there for so many years. Anyone could spend a mere two minutes on Google and turn up incident after incident involving large amounts of AN detonating directly due to extreme negligence. One would think that this sort of thing would be easily prevented, if only those responsible for ensuring the safety of these well known hazardous materials had been doing their jobs.
The fact that detonating cord was stored there should not be a side note - in my opinion, it is a fact of major importance. Det cord uses PETN, a secondary explosive that can easily be brought to full detonation in larger scale just by heat. It is a very poweful explosive, that sureöy has acted as a kind of booster to set of the full AN detonation. Without det cod, the ignition of a pure AN detonation seemed hard to realize, but WITH it the whole story makes way more sense.
There is no such thing as a "slow" detonation cord btw.
There are certainly two speeds in military use, I've used them in the Royal Engineers, quite apart from different speeds of fuse. The quirk here is that the percussive effect is central to the line of "rope", and can fail to detonate if it doesn't terminate in the explosive. It can, however, be turned into an improvised primer, which is good to know if you're likely to have them in battle.
They basically should admit, that a massive ammonium Nitrate Bomb making factory, caught fire and exploded.
@@barryjames3747 Not really, the major accelerant is absent.
@@RandySeverino Not entirely. The question was whether it was an accident or not. The way those cargo bags were dumped speaks to laziness and ignorance. The fireworks? Well, I've been trained in explosives by the military, and there's also a thriving stream of civil thrill-seekers on here, from the dumb-ass suggestions this AI comes up with, some of which are candidates for the Darwin prize for short life-expectancy. That makes it very possible the fireworks were no accident.
@@RandySeverino The problem is, you're in a dream world. Get real. This could have been political. There were plenty of forces motivated to devastate this capital, both inside the country (religious fundamentalists), outside (Syria, Russia, Israel) and international (ISIS, some Civil engineering operations - just an overblown example of "job's almost finished, we'll accidentally leave a blowtorch on so we get paid three times as much to rebuild"). One coincidence I might buy (amol and fireworks). Two (det cord as well, so you've got all three ingredients - primer, explosive and accelerant - for a legendary bomb), that's pushing things.
this is the kind of videos i want to get recommended for real, so damn clean legendary tier edit skills here
Bravo to the creators of this video. If only mainstream news went to this level of detail in covering tragedies then they might be trusted. Sadly, its more important to report a story quickly rather than accurately.
It's crazy how much research and work has gone into this video.
Also, these animations are next-level! Keep the good work up!!
this video manages to showcase extreme incompetence (the warehouse) and unbelievable competence (the makers of the 3d model, and this video) at the same time.
jesus the work that must have gone into this. why are you not famous?
It’s scary seeing some of the videos being recorded so close while knowing what’s about to come
Congratulations for your ilustration! This is exceptional work!
It's chilling to see those footage that are filmed in the epicenter of the explosion.
...and to think that all that was done with a simple 80286, 5-25Mhz turbo speed button PC.... absolutely amazing...
The only thing more astonishing than this video is how this channel has fewer than 10k subscribers. Incredible work!
2 years and still under 10k.
Still under 20k... I don't think the majority of people understand how incredibly impressive this video is, especially if you have never worked with CAD programs at all
Holy hell. I was just wondering the other day there are so many "compilation" videos on TH-cam if it is possible to algorithmically stitch them together to create a cohesive map. And apparently my idea was old by about 2 years !! excellent video by Forensic Architecture team.
That shockwave is incredible!
Most impressive analysis video I have ever seen on TH-cam. Thank you to the algorithm for recommending this to me and kudos for the whole production team!
This level of detail and cohesion should be standard in any investigation. I am so impressed
¡Gracias! Impresionante 👏🏾 Después de 4 años nos siguen afectando. Gracias por la explicación tan clara y profesional. Saludos 🇵🇷
Such a tragedy but the way you broke this down was really amazing. Very cool 3d tech
This is one of the coolest videos I’ve ever seen, it’s like the Visual Investigations I enjoy but for an explosion... keep it up
Great analysis! Forensic Architecture should collaborate with Bellingcat, there is a lot in common in the work of these two groups.
They already have. Look at their videos.
Seeing the frozen frame of the initial fireball that instantly appeared shows how massive it was, larger than the building.
To think this could’ve been avoided if the people responsible weren’t so negligent boils my blood.
What a professional, amazing and remarkable video, your talent, sir, is inmense.
This is so cool. I mean, the explosion wasnt, but the way you guys made this video is incredibly interesting. I love the half 3d model, half video perspective. Super impressive.
I have to say, this is probably the best reconstruction of the events and storage area I have ever seen.
Unbelievable analysis. Job well done!
Beautiful 3d visualisation and modelling, kudos to the whole team. However I did not expect a single photograph can reveal the exact coordinates of the photographer by correlating neighbouring buildings, that was very spooky and unnerving to watch. It’s a privacy nightmare.
Wow this is really impressive also RIP to the guy filming at 4:57
Yeah saw that and wondered if he is still alive. They did get his footage
@@deadspeedv there was a lot of firefighters that died unfortunately So it wouldn't surprise me if the cameraman died which sucks
This was absolutely fascinating on so many levels, I scarcely know where to begin.... so I won't. Kudos to your team and thank you for all you've done. Hopefully this will help those still in need of answers and, especially, compensation, find both.
wow !! the amount of work that you guys did is mind-blowing! and I thought building a resource block model was something complicated 🙄
This is the first clip we've watched from your channel, and we found it very well done. My husband's dad was an architect all his life and my husband has done years in engineering. It was good how everything was shown on a CAD model and patched together from the footage obtained.
This whole thing is a prime example of gross negligence and absolutely no regard to safety in the storage of potentially explosive materials. It seems like nobody knew what else was in this warehouse when they just basically dumped it in there and forgot about it.
Very informative, until I viewed this, I was unaware of the actual location of the storage, believing the storage location was the tall silo structures adjacent to the actual location. I was aware of the fireworks stored near, but not the car tires. The people and country of Lebanon have suffered so terribly in the last several decades, this horrible tragedy, that was completely avoidable, is one more awful event to be foisted upon the people of Lebanon.
Have you never seen a grain silo? I grew up in St Louis Missouri
and I learned, early, what a grain silo is.
@@zapa1pntobviously not🤓
I saw a video where the man was filming the fire. The woman heard a jet coming and said please let’s go inside now, Not 1 second before the blast. I think the ammonium nitrate was given a helping hand. If you search you should find the video on you tube.
Very interesting video! 👍🏻
I remember when this happened there was a video of a wedding reception just outside the epicentre. The wedding party was fortunately unscathed but the shockwave was filmed barrelling up the street toward them. I wish I could provide a link for the video. The fact the bride was uncommonly beautiful made that particular video stick in my mind. Many other souls were not as fortunate as that group of individuals. Very sad state of affairs.
Wedding berute
I did see the video that you mentioned shortly after the explosion.
@@davidgold5961 She is very beautiful though!!
That was tragically brilliant and gorgeous work.
THAT is forensic artwork.
Very well done in your research and an excellent job in communicating clearly what happened.
If schools taught with this kind of perfection, everyone would be a professor. This video is A M A Z I N G!!
I'm still into minute 1:20 and man, I'm astonished with that job. Let's see what more things you have there. +sub here.
EDIT: This is a masterpiece.
I am impressed by your effort to visualise and explain everything. It was truly interesting, thank you!
Very good job!
I was morbidly fascinated by this explosion from the first news of it happening. As soon as I saw the colour of the smoke after the main explosion, I knew it was ammonium nitrate, or, as I've known it in the mining and transport industry, Nitropril.
I lived and worked around central Queensland, Australia for many years. It is a major coal mining area in Australia with mostly Open-cut mining being employed. Nitropril transport and storage areas were a common site, and the main manufacturing plant for these explosives was located south of Rockhampton, the main city in the region, and Gladstone, the export hub for the coal, and a chemical manufacturing area. The plant (at Bajool) had entry requirements that were arguably as strict as a high security prison (I've delivered to both).
I did Dangerous Goods transport training (for road and air) and was graphically educated about the dangers of Ammonium Nitrate and other potentially explosive chemicals and compounds. Anyway, I wanted to say thanks for this video. It is very comprehensive.
RIP whoever is filming at 5:01
My exact thought when they showed that footage. Way too close.
EDIT: Looking at the news reports, the entire fire brigade from the footage at 6:00 was killed. Nine firefighters and a paramedic.
Mu mu mu multikilllllll
This analysis is amazing and I hope that in 100+ years it used as a very accurate detailed account of events for future generations.
Excelente trabajo Post explosión, saludos desde Colombia.
2:27 it's kinda clear from this footage what was going on. Source of the fire: the piles of tires. The fire then spreads to the firework piles right across it. The fireworks detonated, flying all over the place and some reached the ammonium nitrate sacks and kaboom...
A lot of the people recording these videos didn't make it. Could say they literally died for this footage. I'm glad you were able to use it in such a respectful educational way.
10/10 for the quality of the presentation
Quality video 👍
I wish you could do this for the World Trade Center or Chernobyl
partial recorrection - ammonium nitrate does not combust as it is only an oxidizer but it can spontaneously decompose by itself if at a high temperature----
Here is the full reaction of that explosion.--- NH4NO3(s){white powder in bags before} → NO2( g){orange smoke} + H2O( g){water vapour}
let me just ay this was a great in depth video
Great work. Let me note that when people upload videos to TH-cam, the videos that appear on TH-cam are not always accurate when compared with "true real time". From my experience, uploading a video can impact the speed of the video (frames per second) by a few percentage points. Did you have to re-synchronize the uploaded videos' speed with each others'? I've had to do that.
This is honestly one of the best videos in terms of quality on youtube in general.
well, can we do the same forensic research to 9/11 case?
It's been done, just not this fancy.
wait a few more years... may be the us govt will release even the planning of 911 and how it went exactly according to plan.
Ngl... from a Datascience and -visualisation perspective this channel is extremely impressive.
Amazing work! And I have never seen a video this popular with zero down votes :)
This is perfect. Some days we'll put together all the thousands of pieces of video into a 3D simulation and you'll be able to walk the holodeck inside this.
In India, Chennai...the day when the Beirut explosion happened, many local news channels also reported the presence of Ammonium nitrate chemical storage in the Chennai port ! Which meant that Ammonium nitrate is a very common chemical substance....and it could possibly be present in many places and ports . This just sends chills through my spine. 🥶
Which presents no problem by itself as long as its stored correctly
It amazes me just how much valuable information was collected to allow such an impressively accurate and detailed mapping. Documentation ovetall is becoming much more detailed and precise thanks to how accessibile good quality cameras have become. The 2020 explosion is possibly the best documented large scale detonation incident of all time.
Can the team have a look at the events of September 11th by any chance?
Wow This is some really cool stuff! The way you put things together is insane.
this some nerd sh*t but in a good way! really interesting
**removes cigar to speak** So THAT’S where I left my tires, fireworks, and ammonium nitrate. Oh well.
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Perhaps the coolest analysis video I've ever seen. This is better than all the CGI in Mission Impossible type movies.
This is such an incredible video with so much work put into it. Much love
It's stunning, the level of carelessness with storing ammonium nitrate in such a way, it was only a matter of time before this was going to happen... and fireworks in the same building!!
It’s crazy how different the explosion sounds in English.
Excellent quality assessment and presentation. All for public use. Great job.
that immense detailed work that was put into this video 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻