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.

The IDF launched a "large scale" attack on Beirut on Tuesday afternoon, the military announced, hours before a ceasefire is expected to be announced. The IDF struck 20 targets across Beirut ...

Nearly 3,000 tonnes of ammonium nitrate - taken from a ship off the coast of Beirut six years ago and then stored in a warehouse - has been blamed for the explosion that ripped through the port ...

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 ...