if that is a real photo then that is a deep crater. Look at the mound of earth built up around it. It looks like the top of a volcano.
More likely burn residue, I’d think, but yes, it probably makes it look deeper than it is. Even looking at the edges, though, suggests that it’s pretty damn deep.
I don’t know how this area was built, but I’ve seen a lot of other buildings under construction in China, so I’ll just offer this: it’s typical for them to excavate all the way down to bedrock and then build from there. In big cities, it often seems that most of China is actually underground.
I just saw that Periodic Videos has one on Calcium Carbide, one of the chemicals that apparently was behind the explosion.
The scary part would be if it did and still made a crater like that.
• cyanide levels near Tianjin explosion site are between 200 and 300 times higher than acceptable standards;
• 700 tons of sodium cyanide were reportedly stored at the blast site;
• large numbers of dead fish are washing up on the shores of a lake four miles from the blast site;
• local officials say the waters are safe.
One of these four things is not like the other…
And here we go again. At least this time the loss of life was just one. Of course, that’s no solace for the poor sod who died nor his family.
This happened a few days ago, but I didn’t see it mentioned here, so I decided to post it.
The first consequences appear to have begun to take place.
Tianjin official commits suicide by jumping off a window - 23 others arrested. (Hong Kong Free Press).
The deceased, Dong Yongcung, was the Director of the Administrative Examination and Approval Department for the Tianjin Transportation Committee. Likely he was one of the people responsible for permits in the port area.
Too bad they didn’t let the other 23 jump.
One does need to encourage the others.
The death sentence will probably be commuted to life in prison.
Wow. It certainly appears as if they do not fuck around when they catch someone violating safety laws in China. I wish the US had the same sort of zeal when it comes to safety and willful violations.
No. They violate safety laws in China all the time. It’s the death of 165 people which caused the reaction.
It’s the publicity of the death of 165 people that caused the reaction.
so you wish in the USA you would systematically ignore the regulations and the codes based on the corrupt internal party politics, but then when something goes hugely wrong due to this systematic attitude, you would hold the political show trials and make the huge deal out of the show punishments that likely later become quietly waived away?
interesting.
Yes. Yes, that is exactly what I meant.
:rolleyes:
I wonder how effective it is. Not much in this case.
I can tell you China “catches” people violating safety laws all the time but rarely does anything abut it. If it brought about heavy negative publicity, it wouldn’t surprise me if they’d execute jaywalkers.
Indeed, as you wrote
so that is the same sort of zeal…
Does the villain give the authorities a gift?