What are the biggest unusual explosions in history?

From the invention of high explosives, there have been numerous strong non -peculiar explosions that killed or injured 1,000 people at a time. Because measurement of the exact size of the explosion is impossible without careful measurement and most of the large unusual explosions are actually accidental, it is not possible to say which of these explosions is the largest. The amount of detonated explosives is often known, but the size of the explosion cannot be directly calculated from the weight of the explosives themselves, so the accurate evaluation scheme is impossible.

There are five main inadequate explosions that many agree are among the largest, if not the largest:

• Halifax explosion (1917, estimated equivalent to 2.9 kilotons (kt) TNT)
• Disaster Texas City (1947, 2 - 4 kt)
• Military Test "British Bang" on Heligoland in the North Sea (1947, 4 kt)
• Military test on a small scale in New Mexico (1985, 4 kt)
• Pordisaster T Chicago (1944, 5 kt)

Halifax explosion that occurred on December 6, 1917, in CanadaHalifax in the new Scotia in Norweg sale. The ship was fully loaded and carried explosives for sending to Europe for use during the First World War. The resulting non -pendant explosion was about a third, the power of the atomic bomb dropped to Hiroshima. About 2,000 people, mostly Canadians, died, and 9,000 were injured. The whole port was destroyed.

"British bang" and a smaller scale of non-jader explosions were military tests that were designed to simulate nuclear explosions. Both included several thousand tons of explosives and had a size similar to an explosion of halifax, but no one was injured. The British bang was made on the island of Heligoland, while Miani was not carried out on the White Sands missile range in New Mexico. During a smaller scale, £ 9.6 million (4,350 tonnes) with high explosive were detonated.

Both the disaster in Texas and the disaster in Port Chicago were the tragic repetition of the same generalRce as a disaster Halifax. Fully loaded ships exploded in the port and killed several hundred people in both incidents. Although these inadequate explosions could seem very extreme to those who were caught in the explosion, they are created by modern nuclear weapons compared to explosions.