FUEL DEPOT EXPLOSIONS HEART FROM MILES AWAY
12 FIREFIGHTERS now killed trying to save people hurt within the blast radius
Specific cause unknown as of yet. Large and serial explosions melt steel beams in the compound.
Many volatile chemicals were over safety limits.
The country's National Earthquake Bureau said the first blast had a force equivalent to three tons of TNT, and the second had the equivalent of 21 tons.
Police said an initial blast took place in shipping containers at a warehouse for hazardous materials owned by Ruihai Logistics.
State media said senior management of the company had been detained by authorities, and that President Xi Jinping has demanded severe punishment for anyone found responsible for the explosions.
"At first I felt quakes on the bed and then I heard wind rushing into my room, my windows exploded. The door was shaking," Wendy Zhou, a 26-year-old primary school teacher, told NBC News. She was more than six miles away.
Surrounding area heat damage.
>Several thousand imported cars stored at the site were burned or destroyed, state media reported. They included more than 2,700 Volkswagens, 1,500 Renaults and 4,000 Hyundai and KIA vehicles.
So by keynesianism we know that thousands of jobs got created amirite?
>As often during disasters, Chinese authorities tried to keep a tight control over information. Users on China's Twitter-like Weibo complained that their posts about the blasts were deleted, and the number of searchable posts on the disaster fluctuated, in a sign that authorities were manipulating or placing limits on the number of posts.
This is what USA wants with their citizens eventually.
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/daylight-shows-scenes-devastation-tianjin-least-17-dead-n408946
SUPER COMPUTER SEVERAL KILOMETRES DISTANT UNDAMAGED
shut down as a safety precaution