The Halifax Explosion: 100 Years Ago
Автор: Protection Engineering Consultants
Загружено: 2017-12-08
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A massive explosion killed 2,000 people in the Canadian port of Halifax on 6 December 1917, injuring thousands more and leaving many homeless.
The simulation shows the propagation of the shock front generated by the detonation, which released the equivalent energy of approximately 2.9 kilotons of TNT. The extent and severity of building damage from the explosion is indicated on the model of the modern city of Halifax.
The disaster resulted from a collision between two ships - SS Mont Blanc, loaded with high explosives bound for France, and the SS Imo, a Norwegian vessel chartered to pick up famine relief supplies for civilians in occupied Belgium.
Fire broke out on the Mont Blanc, detonating its cargo and causing the most powerful man-made explosion in history until the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in 1945.
The force of the blast wrecked much of Halifax, the damage compounded by a tsunami. Nine thousand people were injured. Many were blinded by flying glass. A dense plume of smoke rose more than 3,600 meters above the stricken city.
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