The figure on the left also shows the Grain Silos-one of the monumental landmarks of Beirut-moments before it was defaced. It has been speculated that a smaller explosion occurred at an adjacent warehouse storing fireworks that caused a larger fire that triggered a second much larger blast. The white smoke billowing in the left figure was due to an earlier fire that burned out of control in Warehouse No. Figure 2 shows the site of the explosion at the Port of Beirut moments before the explosion and at the onset of the explosion resulting in a reddish-black smoke shown in the figure on the right. 12 within the port of Beirut during the preceding six years after having been confiscated by the Lebanese authorities from the abandoned Russian-owned cargo ship MV Rhosus. The blast was caused by an unexplained detonation of 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate-approximately 1.1 kilotons of TNT, which had been stored unsafely in Warehouse No. A mushroom cloud created in the air (Top) with a supersonic blast-wave (Bottom) radiating throughout the city. Minutes after the explosion, the Lebanese government declared Beirut in a state of emergency for two weeks. Beirut’s blast resulted in at least 180 deaths, over 6000 injured, some 30-40 missing, and over 300,000 homeless moreover, it was accounted for 10-15 Billion USD in property damage. It created a seismic tremor the equivalent of a 3.3 earthquake magnitude on the Richter scale according to seismologists at the United States Geological Survey, and has been considered as one of the most powerful non-nuclear explosions in history. The blast was felt in many neighboring countries, including Turkey, Syria, and Israel, and was heard in Cyprus, 234 km away from the epicenter of the explosion. In the evening of Tuesday August 4, 2020, precisely at 18:08 EEST, a massive explosion erupted in the Port of Beirut creating a mushroom cloud in the air with a supersonic blast-wave of compressed air radiating throughout the city, literally shaking the whole country and devastating everything in its path, Figure 1. Should the building safety standards that emerged after the Oklahoma City attack have been ubiquitously used in contemporary cities, many lives and injuries that fell in the Beirut’s blast would have been spared. The article then addresses the resulting safety measures and construction codes that emerged after the Oklahoma City bombing with a recommendation to the Lebanese authorities and other authorities within volatile regions so as to incorporate safety glass in the reconstruction process and or the (re)design of old and new buildings.
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Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States, on April 19, 1995, that claimed the lives of 167 people and numerous injuries most of which were due to glass shards flying and falling from broken windows causing severe lacerations and abrasions. It then recapitulates on the terrorist attack on the Alfred P. It allegedly blames shattered glass from building facades and interiors to be the leading cause of most of the 180+ deaths and 6000+ injuries that resulted from this tragic blast as has been witnessed in the emergency wards of treating hospitals.
Synopsis: This article discusses the massive blast of Beirut that took place in the evening of Augand the devastation it has caused to the country and its citizens. Keywords: Beirut, Blast, Bombing, Explosion, Laminated Glass, Lebanon, Non-Shattering Glass, Oklahoma City, Safety, Shattered Glass. Abu-Faraj, Ph.D., Professor of Biomedical Engineering As far as the staff is concerned, anyway.By: Ziad O. Still, I can't see any reason to bother wasting upgrades on a staff of regrowth.Įdit: No, Corruption and Blast Wave are not even worth mentioning. I haven't tried Regrowth or Venom lately - back when the wand overhaul first came out, they were meh, but I think they might have been tweaked since then. I like the wand, but I'd rather just use it as a wand, in combo with a MM staff to keep it charged. But the crippling effect is only useful if you are hitting and running, which is only a good tactic if you have a good ranged offense, which PL is not. Prismatic Light might be good at high levels I haven't tried it lately. Lightning is terrible you damage yourself as much as the enemy. Frost is terrible, breaking potions everywhere. I haven't had much luck with anything else for Battlemage. Magic Missile is actually surprisingly good if you have a variety of wands you can use, since they'll stay charged up. Just be careful about aiming it on shop levels. Disintegration, because it won't destroy anything important (like scrolls or, you know, you), and has better range.
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