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Originally Posted by SwampYankee
Plenty of coverage here, time of day might have delayed it a bit. What a devastating explosion! Thoughts and prayers for those affected. 
Lots of natural gas and ammonia gas used in production as well as ammonium nitrate. Add a spark or small fire and...well...this. |
Its the lead story on the tv news here in Australia.
Ammonium Nitrate & Urea plant I would think.
You basically have all the ingredients for a high explosive. The fire just made sure all was mixed well.
They reported that the explosion registered as a 2.1 magnitude earth quake!! Easy to understand why not many initial reports ~ any one covering the story of the fire would have not survived the explosion to report on it !! 
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