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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...
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It's hard to get your head around the scale of it...
That putting it mildly.
It's one of those incident you really want to see what happen at the same time do not wish this scale of destruction on people.
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My great aunt lost an eye in the explosion (so got off relatively lightly, but...). It was pretty horrific from all my relatives accounts.
https://www.historicacanada.ca/content/heritage-minutes/halifax-explosion
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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.