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Hokkaido University: Blast That Shook the Ionosphere
March 19, 2021
HOKKAIDO, Japan, March 19 (TNSJou) -- Hokkaido University issued the following news release:

A 2020 explosion in Lebanon's port city of Beirut led to a southward-bound, high-velocity atmospheric wave that rivaled ones generated by volcanic eruptions.

Just after 6 p.m. local time (15.00 UTC) on August 4, 2020, more than 2,750 tons worth of unsafely stored ammonium nitrate exploded in Lebanon's port city of Beirut, killing around 200 people, making more than 300 . . .

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