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[–] [Deleted] 1 points (+1|-0)

a former British Army bomb disposal expert says the Beirut blast was the equivalent of 1-2 kilotons of TNT

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[–] jobes 1 points (+1|-0)

I'll have to try and dig up and see if I can find the link that was saying 3-5, but not sure if I saved it. I think what I saw was just estimating based on the Richter scale where a 5 kiloton nuclear bomb caused a 4.5 quake to register, so they were estimating based on the seismological data and previous explosions