On 8/10/05, Josh Coates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Truck was carrying 58,000 lbs of explosives. Crater is 60ft wide by 10 ft > deep. > > remember the beirut attack on us marines in 1983? > > could this be a new record for the largest non-nuclear explosion? probably > not, but then again, iirc, the beruit explosion was 400lbs of C4 (or chech > semtex) and it was estimated to be equiv of 15K-21K of tnt (see below.)
Do a google search for +halifax +explosion. A ship full of explosives exploded (several hudred thousand pounds of TNT). Reports were that windows shattered 50 miles away. And this was in 1917. http://www.halifax.ca/community/explode.html Gary. .-----------------------------------. | This has been a P.L.U.G. mailing. | | Don't Fear the Penguin. | | IRC: #utah at irc.freenode.net | `-----------------------------------'
