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[LadyStanley]

Luckily only 2 people died, but yeah lots of structure damage. I lived on the other side of the valley at the time. Biggest non-nuclear explosion in US soil ever.

Port Chicago disaster - Wikipedia
What about Port Chicago aka Richmond shipyard explosion during WWII? Killed 320, injured 390.

Fireball of explosion estimated at three miles in diameter.

 

[ChanceVegas]

Port Chicago disaster - Wikipedia
What about Port Chicago aka Richmond shipyard explosion during WWII? Killed 320, injured 390.

Fireball of explosion estimated at three miles in diameter.

Could be. I've just heard that fact quoted but not sure where it came from. I'm guessing it is based on the force of it. I think it measured like a 6 on the Richter scale in LA. But again, I don't know what that is based on.

ETA: found it 30 years ago, massive PEPCON explosion rocked Las Vegas Valley

The event that shook the Las Vegas Valley would later be described — in a 2012 NASA case study — as the largest domestic, non-nuclear explosion in recorded history.​

And it was 3.0 on the Richter in CA and CO.

 

[LadyStanley]

Hate explosions. So why the perverse nature of myth busters fans to enjoy those?