According to Fox news
The scale of devastation from Tuesday’s Beirut blast can be seen in new satellite images that provide a sobering perspective of the pair of explosions that killed more than 100 people, injured 4,000 others and leveled several warehouses and buildings in the surrounding area.
The new pictures from ISI Imagesat International show massive damage to the city’s industrial waterfront following the blasts that erupted next to the Beirut Port Silos.
Hospitals were also damaged and windows shattered miles away as the shockwave from the explosion moved from the industrial waterfront to the city’s residential areas and shopping districts. The blast also changed the shoreline in the port, according to local reports.
Initially, President Trump claimed a bomb might have gone off in the city — a statement that was contradicted by U.S. military officials as well as those in Lebanon.
The investigation into the Beirut blast seemed to show years of neglect over the storage of highly explosive materials, an official source familiar with the findings told Reuters.
Boaz Hayoun, owner of the Tamar Group, an Israeli firm that works closely with the Israeli government on safety and certification issues involving explosives, told The Associated Press that before the big explosion, in the center of the fire, “you can see sparks, you can hear sounds like popcorn and you can hear whistles. This is very specific behavior of fireworks, the visuals, the sounds, and the transformation from a slow burn to a massive explosion.”