re: #86 Varek Raith

It’s hard to judge distance at night, but that blast was fucking huge.

I’d say the first of the videos above was taken from about a mile away (from time the explosion shows until the shock wave hits)

This video was shot from well under a mile - I’d say a few hundred yards to half mile from the looks of it.

Huge doesn’t quite begin to cover it. That reminds me of the big explosion outside Las Vegas years back when a fire set off rocket fuel in a series of huge explosions (Pepcon).

400 reported injured in massive explosion in #China city of #Tianjin. Latest updates: http://t.co/qGv1GIcb5T pic.twitter.com/s0T2M9dxFw

— Jim Roberts (@nycjim) August 12, 2015

Those casualty reports are going to get a whole lot more grim.