The Ruskies had a big weapons depot go up.

https://nypost.com/2019/08/05/...t-thousands-to-flee/

A few interesting videos on the Twitter page below

https://twitter.com/Liveuamap/.../1158371723970064387

Horry Sheet! I bet that rattled some dishes!

...and it all started with a Big BANG!

Brings this to mind:

“The Tunguska event was a large explosion that occurred near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in Yeniseysk Governorate (now Krasnoyarsk Krai), Russia, on the morning of 30 June 1908 (NS).[1][2] The explosion over the sparsely populated Eastern Siberian Taiga flattened 2,000 square kilometres (770 square miles) of forest, and caused at least three human casualties.[3] The explosion is generally attributed to the air burst of a meteoroid. It is classified as an impact event, even though no impact crater has been found; the object is thought to have disintegrated at an altitude of 5 to 10 kilometres (3 to 6 miles) rather than to have hit the surface of the Earth.[4]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event

Most surprising part after seeing that big blast wave.."one soldier reported dead."

Only 1? That's good at least, yikes, I would have expected a lot more.

Only one serviceman killed? Bet he was killed all over the northern hemisphere.

Color me skeptical of the casualty list.

There's no way anyone nearby survived some of those shock waves.

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Originally posted by asonie:
Only one serviceman killed? Bet he was killed all over the northern hemisphere.

He was probably the one that caused it.

They put no smoking signs up for a reason.

I've been on plenty of military bases. Munitions storage areas are far away from populated areas of the base for obvious reasons. The blast wave looks scary, but the pressure drops fast with distance.

Must have been after hours with no soldiers other than the one poor soul around the depot.

On more useful level. When we are talking blast from grenades, IEDs etc. mere feet can mean the difference between survival or not. Dive away feet pointed towards blast, cover ears and open mouth. Odds are good you'll live.

That is military grade high explosives moving over 20k fps. Something improvised like a pipe bomb etc. would be a lot slower and thus even more survivable. Just have to get down low out of the frag radius. If you don't know it's coming nothing can be done about it, you either got blow'd up or you didn't.

It appears that the fire was well underway. The soldiers may have had plenty of time to hide in their bunker. Hopefully it is a well built bunker.

From the article: Ammunition storage site explosions are not unusual in Russia.

Yikes!

In Soviet Russia...you don't shoot ammunition, ammunition shoots you!

Nice mushroom cloud and pretty impressive shockwave

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A source told TASS that the depot held up to 40,000 artillery shells for tank guns.

It's Russia so the only thing you can be sure of is it did not contain 40,000 artillery shells. Much more likely they fudge by an order of magnitude so it was either 4,000 (i.e. they exaggerated or had already stolen 36,000) or 400,000 (i.e. they downplayed their stockpile)

Ukranian payback? Siberian separatists learning from events in the west? Hope springs eternal.

There's gotta be some crazy dash cam footage with that evacuation

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Originally posted by BBMW:
The Ruskies had a big weapons depot go up.

https://nypost.com/2019/08/05/...t-thousands-to-flee/

A few interesting videos on the Twitter page below

https://twitter.com/Liveuamap/.../1158371723970064387

The sound from the soccer team twitter video.

Russian Defense Minister: "There is no significant damage to the neighboring town."

Twitter: "Hold my beer, I'm goin' in."

I just HOPE that Russian officials are more forthcoming about this event than they were about Chernobyl. To this day the "official" death toll from Chernobyl is 31, according to the Russian government. I hope this doesn't turn into a catastrophe...

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Originally posted by Il Cattivo:
Ukranian payback? Siberian separatists learning from events in the west? Hope springs eternal.

Its a little early to blame this on Siberian Separatists, don't you think?

Kaboomski!