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| Israel drops 'earthquake bomb': Colossal explosion 'so big it registered on the Richter scale' hits Syria as air strikes target weapons depots after fall of Assad | |
| 2024-12-16 | |
A war monitor group said that Israeli strikes had targeted military sites in Syria's coastal Tartus region. 'Israeli warplanes launched strikes' targeting a series of sites including air defence units and 'surface-to-surface missile depots', said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, in what it said were 'the heaviest strikes in Syria's coastal region since the start of strikes in 2012'. It has been claimed that the explosion was so large, it measured as a magnitude 3.0 on seismic sensors. Tartus has been the location of one of Russia's two military bases in Syria and was used as a naval base, as well as an ammunition depot. The huge explosion, as well as secondary explosions, may indicate the presence of a large volume of stored armaments. Dramatic videos circulating on social media showed a huge bright flash followed by several explosions which sent an enormous mushroom cloud of smoke into the air. Russia's foreign ministry earlier today said it had evacuated some of its diplomatic staff from Syria, a week after the fall of the nation's dictator Bashar al-Assad. | |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #4 Secondaries can be nasty. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2024-12-16 14:15 |
| #3 ...an earth-shattering KABOOM! |
| Posted by: Heavy+G 2024-12-16 11:17 |
| #2 |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2024-12-16 08:58 |
| #1 The earthquake is the consequence of the stored ammo - not IAF bomb. |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2024-12-16 03:43 |