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That what I was reading, especially how the ship boiled the sea due to the high temperatures, and the propeller found further in-land.
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You should read up on the Halifax explosion. While it wasn't an industrial accident - more a military one as it happened during the First World War and involved a shipment of explosives it was in many ways very similar (including roughly the same explosive yield).
Except that in Halifax the explosion vaporized so much water the harbour floor was briefly exposed, causing an 18 metre high tsunami as water rushed in to take its place. The main gun of the Mont-Blanc, the ship involved, was found three and a half miles away and the shank of its anchor (weighing half a tonne) two miles away. It's hard to get your head around the scale of it...
Fox
The 1947 Texas City disaster sounds ridiculous. Took out a big chunk of the city but some people who were as close as 70 feet from the detonation managed to survive. All but one firecrew (of the entire city) perished.