That was nearly 3 kilotons of TNT equivalent, so again Beirut was around a third this size, give or take. More recently, the 2015 explosion in Tianjin (China) was only around half the yield of Beirut.

Beirut Governor Marwan Abboud said as many as ... "Whatever the precise charge size, this is unquestionably one of the largest non-nuclear explosions in history, far bigger than any conventional ...

The Port of Beirut and customs office are notorious for ... radius will allow a TNT equivalent estimate to be made of the size of the detonation... but it looks initially that only a small ...