5 biggest explosions in history

#AbsoluteHistory

[bekaz]

fun fact: the people of boston were so instrumental in providing aid after the halifax explosion, nova scotia has donated a christmas tree to the city every year since

[TheKornfeld]

"5 somewhat randomly selected explosions" is a better title for this.

[MrLukasboys]

For the Wanggongchang Explosion to be 20 Megatons worth of TNT it would need 20, 000, 000 tons of TNT.
And gunpowder is less powerful of an explosive than TNT, meaning you'd need even more gunpowder.

The armory in question was apparently producing 1.5 tons every 5 days. Meaning it would have had to produce gunpowder of TNT equivalence for over 180, 000 years to reach this amount.
So the explosion was probably much less powerful.

[Fadzi]

If you have Krakatoa, Tambora should be here as well. Tambora literally precipitated “The Year Without Summer”.

[KyleTheBroflovski]

The reason the Tunguska event was so damaging and loud was because the asteroid burned up in the atmosphere, which created the loud sound.

[George.Coleman]

Chixulub crater: "Am I a joke to you?"

[peacenueve]

When i was younger I thought Krakatoa was just from SpongeBob😬

[ethanmac]

Krakatoa had the explosive energy of 200 megatons, which is equal to 4 x Tsar Bomba's, which itself was 50 megatons, well 58 megatons to be precise, but you get my point and math!😉👍😎🍻

[JerryCuberton]

The story of the Halifax explosion does have a bit of an interesting but to it
A guy who knew what was going to happen when he saw the 2 ships collide ran into the Morse code house and held back a train of 300 people at the expense of his own life

[otavainen]

Kinda surprised that the second launch of the N1 is not on the list

[shuhratkessikbayev]

Unrelated but related: Everytime I hear Krakatoa I bust my ass off thinking about the meme where a guy can be heard pushing as hard as he can then simply says "Krakatoa" then explodes into a violent ungodly explosion of shit rumbling the tile walls of the public restroom

[Local-Of-The-Mitten-State]

I know about the Halifax explosion. One ship that was almost caught in it was the legendary RMS Olympic, sister to the ill fated RMS Titanic.

[jamesbob]

The Krakatoa eruption is also considered the loudest sound in human history

[ethanallan]

I was of the belief that the Tambora eruption of 1914 was bigger than Krakatoa, to the point where the following year was known as the year without a summer and the intense rains directly led to the creation of Frankenstein, the foundation of modern science fiction, and may have indirectly led to the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo. The eruption also killed 90, 000 people and sent tsunamis across the South Pacific killing thousands more. Not to mention the famine caused by the crop failure as a result of the heavy and continuous rains.😊

[MMMeteor]

The tsar bomba was at only half it’s maximum power when detonated due to safety concerns

[benthomas]

As long as we’re taking about Krakatoa there were at least 2 other volcanic eruptions that were far bigger. Mount Tambora and Mount Toba.

[victorvanbuuren]

Meteor from 66 mil years ago rn : are you challaning me???

[dominiquecharriere]

The blast of the Krakatoa circumvented the Earth 2 times and the blast was heard in Hong Kong.

[frostyvr]

Just to give a sense of scale. The Halifax explosion was larger than the one that happened in Beirut a few years back

[YoursUntruly]

Halifax explosion hits close to home for me.. Thank you to everyone who helped out my province, especially the United States.