Beirut port explosion - Escaping death by mere seconds
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 ก.ย. 2020
- CCTV footage 670m away.
Video is not edited, the cut at 00:16 is approximately 15 seconds as CCTV recording stopped due to inactivity, set to record only when motion is detected, more details below:
Following times are in sync with the full video linked below at these moments:
0:07 • Beirut Explosion Angle... (0m17s)
0:23 • Beirut Explosion Angle... (0m48s) - บันเทิง
Those solar panels were really well installed. Props to the installer!
What about the camera ?
@@Pratham40scamera man never dies
goddamn yeah, they were better installed than the walls they were installed on
@@SuperJumper It's a heavy steel structure, we repaired it and replaced the panels, it's still there.
Yup
You know you should run when birds start flying away
Birds fly away every time a human gets close to them
@@dububrowatch the video monkey you can see them flying away when they sense the vibrations from the explosions not when the people leave
@@dububro run! Humans are bad in general (the logic of misanthropic vegans) 😂
You know you should run when you live in Lebanon
@@Riley_Christian 🤣
Good to see that there are still people with enough common sense to know when to run for their lives.
Plot twist... They left their cellphones downstairs and they hurry up to get them so they can record it and post it on social media, but they were unable to come back in time...
Naturally, they’re women. 😉
Maybe the noticed the wave to destruction spreading out. But whatever, it's a good thing they sought shelfter.
@@heirofthenazareen3812 there was a smaller explosion a few seconds before the big blast, they were running from that...
When something is happening like here, and you see animals and birds running or flying away fast AF, do the same thing
For those who don't know, there was a small firework explosion that came about 30 seconds before the giant one. You can tell that they are running away because of the initial explosion.
@@ramysmaha8812 No they did not. It was government incompetence on the part of Lebanon.
firework?
@@InvestInspireHub1The fire started where fireworks were stored, and spread to a warehouse which contained fertilizer ingredients - all highly explosive. Massive incompetence.
@@jcs1025 Wtf bruh why were fireworks being stored anywhere near fertilizer in the first place?
Well I mean you already answered it I guess: incompetence.
@@tacothedank exactly.
Props to the camera and solar panel installers!
Stop copying people's comments
@@JP-jb5di He has my permission.
The original comment is under MIT license which means that anyone can copy it with freedom, it's not a license protected by the US government.
@@JP-jb5diprops to the solar panel installers !
Props to the solar panels, camera and water containers installers
Beirut used 4 kiloton explosion...
Solar Panels: "So anyway, I resumed collecting energy..."
Where are you getting 4 kilotons from?
4 kilotons of TNT or some other explosive?
‘Cause most estimates place the explosion to be anywhere between 0.5 kilotons to 1.2 kilotons of TNT.
@@lf198 i think he was trying to approximate it based off what happend in the video
I read that in Sheldon's Voice lmao
@@lf198 The Numbers are all over the place. The Russian Tsar bomba's numbers are similar. Every person has a different answer. 50, 51,52,58,54, or 60MT,.We just don't know for sure. 50MT is agreed on by most.
@@QuantumNova Bro, lay off the Trinity docs for a night or two.
They judged the situation correctly. If they had stayed there and continued filming with their smartphones, they would have been seriously injured.
Or worse. Hopefully they were deep inside their apartment away from any windows.
That only happens in the west, full of idiots
@@TheAeroAvatar Luckily they didn't make it to the apartment as every room has windows or doors, glass shards were embedded in most brick walls of the apartment.
They barely had the time to make it to the elevator door, they were away from windows.
I honestly can't say everyone would make that same decision.
No they wouldn't, the cameraman never dies 👍🏻
For a moment I thought this was clickbait but damn that was wild. I’m glad to see some people with survival instinct.
😢the vid is sped up from the time the girls leave.. watch the smoke cloud top left
@@islandboy_maxi5746 damn they got me. Lol.
Video is not edited, check description it's explained.
@@islandboy_maxi5746
Look at the clouds in the back Einstein.
This is a near death experience
@@noubarm.4538judging by tthe clothes on the grey yoga pant one I am pretty sure the family is upper middle class. Tell me if I am wrong.
It is crazy how they were moments away from certain injury
*Injoinery 😂😂😂
But probably not death.
@@gblarggi mean they could fall out of the building they were pretty close
Dood look at the building right next door. It blew it to pieces. Those women would have been yeeted off that roof top.
It would have been a very different video.
If only people in horror movies had this much common sense
There would be no movie XD
that would imply that garbage-ass genre is good tho, which is a scientific impossibility.
😅
god this was so horrible im so glad you all got inside. i also noticed how all the birds were flying away before the huge explosion its like they knew it was about to happen.
There were serious fireworks going off 10 seconds before the main blast...
yeah, the first explosion scared them
The fireworks explosion probably spooked them that happened right before the big one.
@@tf727430 seconds actually
@@tf7274 Probably saved their lives too
Smart girls! Most people would take out their phones and start recording. I'm glad you're alive and well!
crazy how just the pressure of air going very fast causes so much destruction, insane
E=m.c2
Not sure if this equation is the proper one to use here?@@JamaisOfGt
Finally, People value their lives higher than a Video or Picture to share!
Bruh why am I being recommended this NOW? It's been 3 YEARS.
Stop watching them or they'll keep showing up from time to time lol
From this distance (600 m) and the damage (severe damage to roof) I can tell that the building experienced a blast wave with a peak overpressure of 2 to 3 psi.
This means that:
Maximum blast wind speed= 102mph (approx)
Effect on Structures= Moderate effect on houses (windows and doors blown in and severe damage to roofs) Some weaker buildings may have collapsed
Effect on people= Serious injuries caused from flying debris, eardrums ruptured, fatalities could occur
Wind Speed:
I would disagree on 102mph max wind speed, the 20m2 PV structure you see damaged in the video is massive, held in place with 32pcs of M24 anchors which failed (risen up by 2cm each from the floor, approx. 30kN rating each). I would estimate wind speed in excess of 500mph, you can calculate wind load on a 20sqm 30 degree structure....
Structure:
Some brick walls collapsed, you can see a house disappear in the video background, windows and doors were totally destroyed, all furniture and appliances inside were destroyed by flying glass and debris, elevator metal doors were blown out and destroyed.
All cars in the area were destroyed, metal surfaces vacuumed in by the pressure wave, engine seals blown out, brake servo blown....
People:
Unfortunately lots of fatalities, even people with mild injuries died due to total destruction of nearby hospitals...
No report of ruptured eardrums i was aware of around where i was standing (500-600m)
@@noubarm.4538 I think 2-3 psi would probably be a minimum estimate, it's very possible it was about 5 to 10 psi at that distance, where many buildings would have been destroyed and fatalities would have been widespread. 20 psi overpressure occurred very close to the source,
well at a distance around 600-800m, people in their apartments reported to be flung until around 2 meters due to the shockwave
there is non youtube videos where dead victims looks like burned completely
@@noubarm.4538 a thermobaric dirty bomb....
Like many other videos of the Beirut explosion, you can see that the ground shock arrives first and causes significant shaking, but the air blast moments later is more destructive.
Right, you can also see a smaller ground shock while they are leaving, that's when the birds also fly away, this blast was registered as a M3.3 quake by USGS, it was felt by many surrounding countries...
Thanks for posting this. Best footage of the explosion’s aftermath I’ve seen.
Ill never forget how insane this explosion was. Rip to all those who didnt make it
It’s really terrible to think about 😢
Have watched many different videos of this accident and the sound of that shockwave and the incredible power of the impact, never fails to take my breath away. Just gut wrenching that it happened! Those women were so very, very lucky!
0:19 you can see people in the roof of the building in the left in the explosion. i hope they are ok
It looked like one got inside and the other got caught outside, really unfortunate hopefully he lived but RIP if he didn't.
@@wanttocommentify Darwin Award nominee that stayed outside
I can't see any
I think I see at least one person out there. He doesn't get inside in time, and would have taken the full force of the blast unprotected. Injuries would have been somewhere between "serious" and "fatal".
@@memphisdaniels3218 somebody quite possibly died because of something that they had no role in. Are you 12 years old or were you dropped on your head as a baby?
Just a reference. When you see birds flying away from the incident, duck somewhere safe. After all they are far more aware in all surroundings than any other species.
I know it's crazy but I think the fact you can see the wave move is amazing
Damn, this is one of the only videos where you could see both the outward force followed immediately by the inward force of the explosion! Crazy!
When you see the birds flying away you know somethings up.
well said
i thought about it for a bit,, but i think they were running away because the building that contains the dangerous goods were already exploding inside a bit by bit. thats why there were few more (still) flying away from the area . not only because they (still) feeling the huge danger they're in but also that its (still) happening which by any animal would feel the unsafe situation.
LOOK AT THE SKY. THE PRESSURE OF THE EXPLOSION PUSHESING THE CLOUDS AWAY FROM THAT AREA.
You know you should run when “press shift to sprint” appears
There was a team of first responders on the other side of that grain silo when the explosion went off. They had no chance.
Pretty sure they would have been blown clean off that roof. Don't be too curious people. You can always read all about it later
Smartest people I've seen in YEARS!!!
Man, these vids are wild.
Finally a video that means whag the thumbnail portarys
You can really see the smoke riding along with the shockwave.
Firstly, my apologies for being so analytical about this tragic incident, and my sympathies to the folk of Beirut who died, were injured or suffered loss as a result of this awful incident.
But it does provide the opportunity for some very interesting analysis, and I have reviewed this video frame by frame to get some timing for the various phases of the blastwave.
The shock font arrives (when the chimney in the centre fails), just 42 frames after the flash. That's 1.4 seconds (at a frame rate of 30 fps). If the shock front was travelling at Mach 1 (340 m/sec), that puts the camera 476m from the initial position of the shock front. You state the camera was exactly 650m from the blast site, so, maybe the shock front was created at around 170 metres from the site.
The flash of the detonation was captured in a single frame, so was probably less than 33 ms, so as Ammonium Nitrate has a detonation velocity of 3 to 5 km/sec, the detonation radius would be somewhere between 70 and 300 metres.
I wonder if this 170 metres is an approximation to the actual radius of the detonation?
Indeed it was a tragic incident, thank you for your comment.
I'm not an expert but below are some facts that could help:
The camera was exactly 675m away from the explosion site.
The warehouse that exploded is around 40mx100m (approx 2750kg of AN/ANFO) and there was a reinforced concrete grain silo just behind that warehouse that still partially stands in place.
I think the blast wave was traveling at less than Mach 1 (from reports i have read about this explosion).
One more thing to consider is the reflected wave from the grain silo that reached this area which might also alter your measurements.
Warehouse Location: maps.app.goo.gl/x827x58M4kq8QeJP9
Camera: maps.app.goo.gl/h5EEVC3WRE8rN7on8
@@noubarm.4538 Thanks for that. I am pretty certain that the front of the blast wave travels at Mach 1. After all, by definition, Mach 1 is the speed that any disturbance of pressure or density travels through the medium. In this case, the medium is the atmosphere at the time - normal pressure around 1013 hPa and temp around 300°K. I am doing some analysis of the images, which have spherical distortion from your wide-angle lens. Do you have the focal length of the lens please?
@@RationalDiscourse
Below are the details of this camera:
Hikvision DS-2CV1021G0-IDW1 2.8mm lens.
Isn't the speed of the disturbance also related to the amount (or speed) of the energy released by the explosives and limited to Mach 1 by our atmospheric conditions?
According to an article I've read earlier there are two types of explosives, HE and LE (high/low order explosives) which create different blast waves, LE creating a subsonic wave.
One more thing that might help you, as i was watching seconds before the big blast, from my angle of view, i could see, hear and feel a huge roaring blase seconds before the big explosion. I think it looked like it was a deflagration-to-detonation transition.
I might be wrong here just trying to share my ideas...
There are multiple other videos on YT showing this same explosion that might also help, one is linked in my description.
@@noubarm.4538 Lots to unpack there.
Thanks for the info on the camera.
Unlike a water wave which is a transverse wave whose speed is related to its amplitude, a blast wave is a longitudinal wave, like light, radio, and sound, whose propagation rate is independent of its amplitude and frequency. I'm pretty sure blast waves propagate at Mach 1. The actual speed of Mach 1 depends on atmospheric conditions: 340 m/sec at NTP but faster in hot air, and in less dense air.
It depends on whether you're talking about the speed of detonation or the speed of the blast wave.
I'm no explosives expert, but this is what I understand as a scientist:
HE detonates at supersonic speeds, meaning the chemical reaction propagates through the material faster than the speed of sound. But only during the reaction, creating the fireball. Once the reaction is complete, the fireball stops expanding supersonically and the blastwave detaches and propagates at Mach 1.
LE deflagrate, which means they burn or propagate their reaction at subsonic speeds. This results in a slower and less powerful reaction compared to high explosives.
I am spending many hours viewing and analysing the many YT videos. It must have been the most recorded blast in history!
@@RationalDiscourse
Thank you for taking your time to explain, my background is electronics so i'm also far from being an expert here.
What i'm comparing with other waves is not the blast wave itself which is longitudinal, but the amplitude of pressure vs space/time which should be a sinewave and would explain the rise and fall of the pressure before returning to normal NTP conditions.
My understanding was that the speed of detonation is what would be driving the blast wave, if detonation is subsonic the blast wave would be traveling at subsonic speed, i guess i was wrong.
It was indeed the most recorded blast in history.
One more thing to mention, it was recorded as a M3.3 quake, you can also see that ground traveling wave at 00:24 just after the flash. It felt much more than M3.3 from where i was standing though, i remember wondering how the concrete was still holding up before the blast wave reached me....
you see ,those people did not fck around to find out ! hope they are doing well
Look at smoke between 17 and 19 seconds. Its like 10 minutes speedup
15 second speed up read desc.
The explosion seems extremly powerfull, i'm happy they entered inside just before.
Ammonium nitrate: don't fuck around with it.
When you are looking at something dangerous and your gut instinct says run, you should run.
I think one of the scariest parts of an explosion, especially when you see the recording after it, is the unstoppable sound force, it's not as fast as light but it makes me feel eerie.
When the explosion happens you can see two people on an ever worse rooftop of the building all the way to the left of the camera. I hoped they survived because they were right there we no barriers stopping them from falling...
I knew it was going to be strong, but i still was not expecting it to bring several walls down...
This was around 600m away from the warehouse that exploded, all doors, cars, appliances were totally destroyed.
Wow. Thank God those women got out of there before the explosion. Scary.
They ran away when they saw the initial explosion. My dumbass would’ve been like “Oh damn” and kept watching
Im noticing that a lot of people didn't notice the quick little fast forward moment before the big explosion. The title is basically click bait. Should be minutes, not seconds.
Sidenote: Watch the black smoke on the left and you'll see what I'm talking about.
Check the description, some people are also missing that it seems...
@@noubarm.4538 Good to note. Thanks.
Hey wait. I see there was some cutting before explosion. Seems like minutes or so. So there was more time between.
Yes there is a few seconds of cut, it's explained in the description.
I admire the women for sensing the danger of a massive explosion just seconds before it happened and escaping.
I experienced the explosion and even though I lived across beirut from the port I still felt I giant explosion and my house shook sooo much
You can see the ground motion was faster than the pressure wave.
The speed of sound in the ground is much faster than in the air.
@Noubar M. Hamdillah, all your family members are safe. Did your house survive the blast? I hope your situation gets better. I really want to know if they saw any planes before the explosion or rockets falling in the sky. Your daughters were high enough to see something. Some online videos have been faked to show rockets falling on Beirut port. Unbelievable footage. Thanks for the upload!
The house structure survived the blast, but nearly everything in it and all windows & doors got totally damaged... They filmed a video and i was also watching from another spot, there was no planes or rockets, it all started with a small blast followed by a fire approximately 20minutes before the big explosion happened. Some people have confused the sound of the big flames seconds before the explosion with warplane engine sounds, i was there watching everything 600m away and that's when we took cover before the big explosion happened.
@@noubarm.4538 Thank you for confirming that. Are local NGO's like "Lebanon of Tomorrow" or
"فرح العطاء"
helping your family?
@@dinahu.s.a.2663 Note that i personally still think this was a carefully planned attack that would look like an accident, storing fuel and explosives near 2750T of ammonium nitrate is not negligence or coincidence.
Currently "فرح العطاء" are renovating external structural damage, repairing broken windows and external doors for our buildings. They are doing a great job!
@@noubarm.4538 It could also be sabotage, and of course it is great negligence from government officials not following up on the many warning notices they received on the storage of dangerous merchandise in Hanggar 12.
@@dinahu.s.a.2663 I still don't think it was negligence, they must have been in the loop with whoever was planning this attack or they were threatened to stay silent.
There is an old video of Michel Hayek on TH-cam describing this event with some weird details that truly happened.
Correction. Given the time elapsed, between the flash and the shockwave, this is about 500 meters from the explosion.
Its 2024 and we almost forgot how crazy was the year 2020
I hope you and your family are all well!
We got lucky we're fine, thank you!
Mere seconds lasted so long into hours, that the video editor had to cut it out to the blast in order to prevent viewers falling asleep waiting.
Not edited, check the description
Bro got things mixed up
Its crazy how someone made a channel dedicated on the explosion
In different camera angles..
I refuse to believe this explosion was an accident.
Many similar accidents happened around the world caused by incorrect storage of AN, either way accident or not, i doubt the scale of the explosion and damage it did was predicted by whoever did it.
Those lucky ladies followed their instincts and lived to see the next day.
I am so glad for them.
Grey one had a great cake. So it would be waste otherwise.
@@AK-tf3fcyou cant see women has human beings but only walking meats are you serious 🙄
Props to the cameraman for not running and staying on the rooftop to film the whole thing
@@Choppop11you just made it clear
thank you for you job genius
@@Choppop11mega woooooosh
Dude I agree, that guy rocks.
I mean, they knew they wouldn’t die no matter what so why not stay.
@@queerthing3028 🐑
The birds knew there was trouble brewing
it's insane that the wall that supported the solar panels got stripped away by the blast, but those are well installed solar panels
observe the reaction of the birds
This is the best view I’ve seen so far, and the blast wasn’t even in the shot
Resistio más el panel solar y la cámara que el edificio...
😥😥😥💕💕💕
Anyone observed the birds flying away too before the blasts?
Moments before the big blast there was smaller exposions and a big flame, lots of noise, i think this saved a lot of lives and scared birds and cats causing them to seek shelter...
@@noubarm.4538 yeah. Animals and birds do have natural intuition better than humans
The cameraman never dies.
A rare moment where people run away before the explosion happens, instead of staring at the fire and smoke.
Beiroet the perfect country for a boeming holiday! Always the sun!🎉😊
Glad those girls got out of there.
That's my family, they were very lucky to check the roof. At home they would have been hit.
Thank u dear
If you look closely at left center part of this video you will notice that there were people on distant roof just as explosion happened.
Keen eye. I never would have noticed, and would not have believed you if not for the ability to zoom in. But they are there.
Omg that's horrific 😢
Even the birds new to get the hell out a dodge! 😂
I hope they are okay too as they didn't have much cover
no sh*t.... birds have more survival instincts than humans fyi
just another example of the camera man never dies
Not funny
Very funny indeed
I think your dark humor is at overlimit
@@baconsoldier3876 No, Its at the right limit
Its not dark humour it's generic copy paste that wasn't even funny originally yet thousands still spam it thinking it makes them funny
Now that's some sharp security camera.. Usually those vid look horribles
It's an old saying "THE CAMERAMAN NEVER DIES" but if there is no one recording and the camera is just installed somewhere...."THE CAMERA WILL NEVER DIE" that was insane 🤯🤯
It's crazy how the cameraman was unmoved despite what was happening.
It was Chuck Norris.😊
@@marcheathrow8930 Nah, Chuck would've frightened the pressure wave so it would've avoided the roof entirely.
He knew he would survive
Give a oscar to the camera for surviving
They way that roof just got ripped off is crazy to me
Hey Noubar, is it possible to contact you somehow (e.g. via mail) by any chance to discuss obtaining a license for using your video? Best regards, Felix
Hi, sure you can contact me. My email is my name @live.com
The waves sound arrived less than 2 seconds which mean’s the distance between apartment and the explosions point is something around 400 to maximum 600 meter
That's right. It's around 550m
Insane to think how many people just stood and watched.
Smart, the initial explosion doesn't look that threating but they knew it was dangerous.
Incredible footage, but there's a *very* obvious edit around 17/18 seconds. Maybe made to make it seem like less time passed between the women leaving and the big explosion, to make the video more "exciting"?
cut is explained in description not an edit
よく見ると 衝撃波とどいた瞬間爆風が前後してますね 実際にこの現象を見ることになるとは
the birds was like: i am out of here
That was only 1500 pounds of tnt? That was absolutely massive. I cant imagine a nuke that has millions of pounds of tnt
2750 tons (around 6M pounds) of ammonium nitrate. I'm not sure how it compares to TNT though.
This explosion was crazy from every angle filmed
0:06 the birds were like “yeah we’re out too”
The birds also got the hell out of there.
Curiosity kills good thing these people know it.
As I was watching this, I was like “what do you mean? It didn’t look that bad” then the explosion happened and my jaw fell open 😮
Not mere secodns there is a cut in thr video. Cool video
read the description
u know it's going VERY BAD when u see flocks of birds to run as hell is following them...
lmao
Camera man never dies
"Mere seconds" has cut jump of like a minute
Baiting fear, danger and whatnot
All I can say. Devastating.😢😢
by 30 seconds, to be exact.
last woman enters the arch around 00:10 and explosion reaches the building around 00:25. if you add the 15 seconds video cut, the result is the timeframe distance between life and death.
you are welcome.
Considering how big that explosion was, in a crowded area, death toll was ‘fortunately’ low.
The birds knew. The birds always know.
Very smart move to get inside !!!
Question is HOW TF did that camera survive
Takes cameraman never dies to a whole new level fr