Beirut has been buried seven times, so it has to resist any earthquake, and that’s why it also resisted the explosion in the port,’’ expresses Lina Ghotmeh in conversation with Louisiana Channel, in regards to the Stone Garden. A building constructed with resilience in mind, in a city ...
A publicly-available blast wave calculator was then used to estimate the size of the explosion in terms of the equivalent quantity of TNT that would produce the same blast wave arrival time at the observers' distance. This work estimates the Beirut explosion to have been equivalent to 637 tons...
In 2020, Lebanon faced one of its most devastating events in modern history: the Beirut port explosion. The massive blast, caused by improperly stored ammonium nitrate, killed over 200 people, injured thousands, and caused widespread destruction in the capital. The explosion intensified already exist...
Beirut Port Explosion: Death Toll Rises to 190 (UN Photo/Pasqual Gorriz) The death toll from this month's Beirut port blast has risen to 190 with more than 6,500 injured and three people missing, Lebanon's caretaker government said in a report dated Sunday. Lebanese authorities are probing ...
On the afternoon of August 4, 2020 in Beirut, copious amounts of ammonium nitrate negligently stored for six years in the city’s port exploded without
After the massive explosion at Beirut’s port a year ago, only a small part of Ibrahim Hoteit’s younger brother was identified: his scalp. Hoteit buried his brother — a large man, a firefighter, a martial arts champion — in a container the size of a shoebox. ...
Because at first no one knew what was going on, everyone thought that I thought that we were only affected. I didn't know the size of this explosion and the size of the damage until I was able to get up and go down to the street. It wasn't until then that ...
Fireworks and ammonium nitrate appear to have been the fuel that ignited a massive explosion that rocked the Lebanese capital of Beirut, experts and videos of the blast suggest. The scale of the damage — from the epicenter of the explosion at the port of Beirut to the windows blown out kil...
People inspect their car that was damaged in Tuesday’s massive explosion in the seaport of Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2020. The explosion flattened much of a port and damaged buildings across Beirut, sending a giant mushroom cloud into the sky. In addition to those who died, more...
taking in relics at the National Museum, or exploring the nearby Phoenician-era ruins of Byblos, travelers aren’t likely to run out of things to do in Beirut. Though scars from civil war and the Port of Beirut explosion remain, the city offers not only a study in contrasts but a lesson...