5 biggest explosions in history

[@bekaz13]

fun fact: the people of boston were so instrumental in providing aid after the halifax explosion, nova scotia has donated a christmas tree to the city every year since

[@teched3503]

Everyone in Halifax learns about this and we even do a celebration before we send the tree off

[@armaanrashad]

@@teched3503wait I live in Halifax and I’ve never heard of this😅

[@bicivelo]

​​@@teched3503yup! They setup the tree in downtown crossing in Boston 😊 it's always huge and a great display!

[@srice8959]

@@teched3503 This is my favorite types of stories to read. Any story that promotes True Brotherhood are the best ones to me at least. One of my favorites is when 9/11 happened the Manhattan station closest to the Towers were Crushed, and here in New Orleans every fireman donated their entire paychecks for over a month, and any firemen who wasn’t at work were at every major intersection with a firemen’s boot collecting money because even back then one. Ladder truck was well over a million dollars. An the had one custom built for NYC. When Katrina happened here NYC did the same for us. Sorry for the long post I wasn’t trying to hijack ya comments. It’s just that story reminded me of that story

[@goodman4966]

​@@biciveloindeed

[@TheKornfeld]

"5 somewhat randomly selected explosions" is a better title for this.

[@f-106deltadart]

No,a better title is “5 largest explosions on earth that occurred within recorded history”

[@Andriren04]

⁠@@f-106deltadartwell if that would be the title it would just be nuclear bombs and Krakatoa. All the entities before the tzar bomba are just some of the largest conventional explosions that have happened plus a meteorite explosion. There are plenty of nuclear explosions that are bigger than all of those.

[@f-106deltadart]

@@Andriren04 ye

[@brettbrooks5511]

​@@Andriren04it would just be volcanic eruptions. Krakatoa itself was estimated at 100mT. Tambora was much more powerful than that. No bomb has ever even come close to the destructive capabilities of nature.

[@jrmunro111]

​@@brettbrooks5511and they never will. Even if we conquer volcanoes we'll never get to touch even a fraction of a supernova

[@MrLukasboys]

For the Wanggongchang Explosion to be 20 Megatons worth of TNT it would need 20,000,000 tons of TNT. And gunpowder is less powerful of an explosive than TNT, meaning you'd need even more gunpowder. The armory in question was apparently producing 1.5 tons every 5 days. Meaning it would have had to produce gunpowder of TNT equivalence for over 180,000 years to reach this amount. So the explosion was probably much less powerful.

[@knusperkeks98]

Thank you for pointing that out! To me it also seemed way to much. Gunpowder has about 25-40% the power of TNT so it would have needed 50-80 million Tons of gunpowder, which is straight up impossible

[@Nugnugnug]

The Halifax Explosion still stands to this day as the largest man-made explosion before the invention of the atom bomb, so I knew right away that China explosion was horsesh*t.

[@ac1455]

Still a massive explosion assuming several months to a year’s worth was stored, as it’d be several to a dozen times more energy than a MOAB, so I can kinda see where they were exaggerating from in a superstitious era. Edit: I think I found the source of 20 Megatons, being the history channel, so maybe the history channel messed up. Digging further, the impact crater was precisely measured at 6.5 meters, a claim unlikely to be exaggerated, so this would be a good measure for the explosion. There’s another theory that a meteor bursted above and caused the damage and then also set off the armory. About 20k people died, so rn I’m more inclined to believe to meteor theory. If anyone has an estimate/formula for the explosive energy needed to create a 6.5 meter deep crater, do share it. Second edit: rereading the wiki page, it definitely seems like a meteor burst did it

[@someguyfromfinland4239]

Also gunpowder doesn't explode, it burns. It only explodes of you put it into some kind of container. Thats why its classified as a low explosive

[@karlbarnett5863]

When you got squinty eyes, everything looks big.

[@KyleTheBroflovski]

The reason the Tunguska event was so damaging and loud was because the asteroid burned up in the atmosphere, which created the loud sound.

[@haraptenang.3408]

How does the asteroid could clear the trees but leave no crater then?

[@generaleerelativity9524]

​@@haraptenang.3408because it broke up and exploded above the ground similar to the most recent one about 10 years ago.

[@haraptenang.3408]

@@generaleerelativity9524 what asteroid do you meant?

[@esje4438]

@@haraptenang.3408what happened was that the asteroid while entering the atmosphere began heating up as it does when you got something like that entering the atmosphere from space, and a bit above the ground the heat was great enough that the it exploded in the air, which is why it cleared the trees and did all the things a usual explosion does, but left no crater. you can still locate about where the explosion must have occurred in the air by finding the centre of the trees laid down though.

[@Fadzi2342]

If you have Krakatoa, Tambora should be here as well. Tambora literally precipitated “The Year Without Summer”.

[@Theseriousguy.]

Mount toba be like indonesia fun fact indonesia : all of the deadliest volcanoes come from indonesia like krakatoa , tambora , rinjani , toba.

[@George.Coleman]

Chixulub crater: "Am I a joke to you?"

[@jeffhamilton8907]

Chixalub: hold my beer

[@penguino1235]

History not prehistory 😄

[@George.Coleman]

@@penguino1235 oh in that case the biggest explosion is me in ur mom

[@Dandyovo]

*Big Bang joins the chat*

[@George.Coleman]

@@Dandyovo never happened

[@peacenueve11]

When i was younger I thought Krakatoa was just from SpongeBob😬

[@deviratmeliya]

I thought it was from bikini bottom horror

[@aguywithahelmet]

Oopsie 😹

[@ethanmac639]

Krakatoa had the explosive energy of 200 megatons, which is equal to 4 x Tsar Bomba's, which itself was 50 megatons, well 58 megatons to be precise, but you get my point and math!😉👍😎🍻

[@Sprocket720]

Thought it was 61

[@ethanmac639]

@@Sprocket720 not quite sure myself, i have heard 58 but i may be wrong

[@VOLITIONSPARK]

Thank you for precise measurements

[@ethanmac639]

@@VOLITIONSPARK you're welcome!

[@garymericano]

Nukes aren't real.

[@shuhratkessikbayev8886]

Unrelated but related: Everytime I hear Krakatoa I bust my ass off thinking about the meme where a guy can be heard pushing as hard as he can then simply says "Krakatoa" then explodes into a violent ungodly explosion of shit rumbling the tile walls of the public restroom

[@JerryCuberton]

The story of the Halifax explosion does have a bit of an interesting but to it A guy who knew what was going to happen when he saw the 2 ships collide ran into the Morse code house and held back a train of 300 people at the expense of his own life

[@gesundheitlicht2054]

„The Big Bang has entered the chat.”

[@duncanbryson1167]

Not an explosion, an expansion.

[@afj810]

that's the smallest

[@ragnard0967]

It’s just a theory

[@duncanbryson1167]

@@ragnard0967 A SCIENTIFIC THEORY‼️ 🙄 Learn what things mean.

[@ragnard0967]

@@duncanbryson1167 yeah? Why did you feel the need to point that out?

[@otavainen222]

Kinda surprised that the second launch of the N1 is not on the list

[@Surfliner450]

Only 15%of the fuel exploded. Imagine if all of it did

[@theEWDSDS]

​@@Surfliner450really? Oh no

[@Local-Of-The-Mitten-State]

I know about the Halifax explosion. One ship that was almost caught in it was the legendary RMS Olympic, sister to the ill fated RMS Titanic.

[@karlbarnett5863]

All insurance fraud.

[@jamesbob9235]

The Krakatoa eruption is also considered the loudest sound in human history

[@benthomas2232]

As long as we’re taking about Krakatoa there were at least 2 other volcanic eruptions that were far bigger. Mount Tambora and Mount Toba.

[@MMMeteor192]

The tsar bomba was at only half it’s maximum power when detonated due to safety concerns

[@frostyvr9805]

Just to give a sense of scale. The Halifax explosion was larger than the one that happened in Beirut a few years back

[@breadstix-]

The asteroid that killed the dinosaurs: am i a joke to you?

[@Meggimagine]

Too old for this video, I think

[@dominiquecharriere1285]

The blast of the Krakatoa circumvented the Earth 2 times and the blast was heard in Hong Kong.

[@bjornragnarsson8692]

The shockwave of Tsar Bomba circumvented the Earth six times before receding to an ordinary acoustic wave at the speed of sound.

[@kylezdancewicz7346]

@@bjornragnarsson8692Both of you are flat out wrong, Tsar bomba was 3 times and Krakatoa 3+ times

[@bjornragnarsson8692]

@@kylezdancewicz7346 you are right, I stand corrected. I was surprised to see that I wrote six because I feel like I had always heard three. Oh well. I’m not perfect.

[@kylezdancewicz7346]

@@bjornragnarsson8692 its alright

[@IDestroyPlaneHangarsForFun]

Tsar Bomba: Nature: I'm nothing like yall 🗣️🗣️🗣️

[@victorvanbuuren4864]

Meteor from 66 mil years ago rn : are you challaning me???

[@ethanallan1254]

I was of the belief that the Tambora eruption of 1914 was bigger than Krakatoa, to the point where the following year was known as the year without a summer and the intense rains directly led to the creation of Frankenstein, the foundation of modern science fiction, and may have indirectly led to the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo. The eruption also killed 90,000 people and sent tsunamis across the South Pacific killing thousands more. Not to mention the famine caused by the crop failure as a result of the heavy and continuous rains.😊

[@prepareid4909]

Please come n visit tambora and krakatau located in Indonesia , ring of fire

[@clifffaceledge]

How did an eruption in 1914 affect Napoleon at Waterloo?

[@ethanallan1254]

@@clifffaceledge it’s not an absolute correlation but the really bad weather affected the battle because there was way more mud than expected. At least that’s what I can remember about it

[@prepareid4909]

@@clifffaceledge very devestating, crop are failing, impacting army soldier , napoleon loss in battle

[@clifffaceledge]

@@ethanallan1254 Just looked it up and saw that the eruption happened in 1815, not 1914. I was confused as to how you thought an eruption could affect a battle that happened almost a century before it lol

[@YoursUntruly]

Halifax explosion hits close to home for me.. Thank you to everyone who helped out my province, especially the United States.

[@gummeryt2902]

In number 4, your mom probably had a skydiving accident

[@christianeaster2776]

Many scientists are trying to say the Tunguska event was caused by a meteor. Most every one used to say it was a comet. I've read a number of articles on this and as far as I can tell there is no justification for saying it's a meteor. Meteorites have one major characteristic when they impact the atmosphere. They leave debris. That is pieces of the meteorite it's self land on earth whether a crater is produced or not. Pictures of ground zero at Tunguska show a pattern very much like an air blast of a nuclear bomb, but no debris has been found. Scientists have attempted over and over to find debris, but found nothing beyond some small sperules formed by the heat of the explosion. To me that means it was a comet that exploded in air.

[@BigBlockEpicSong]

“Your mom in the bathroom” left the chat

[@Nickb9292]

😐

[@johnnywick2460]

damn fam, you got the whole audience laughing😐

[@LandonOslo]

This two☝️ just doesn't like Your Mom jokes. These two says it's unfunny but why does it have 50 likes?

[@Leez-ur7nm]

😐

[@kylezdancewicz7346]

@@LandonOsloThese, this is singular.

[@sa25-svredemption98]

Mt Tambora was the largest RECORDED eruption in earth's history, making Krakatoa look insignificant in comparison. The reason Krakatoa is so famous is that, in the 80 or so years between the two explosions, the telegraph had been invented and rolled out across the planet, so the reports of Krakatoa, and the global impacts, were both received and annotated within a few hours, meaning many people were receiving near real time information about the event. Mt Tambora only became known to the Americas and Europe a month or so after the event, even though it was by far a bigger and more destructive event.

[@annfay6543]

The Tunguska explosion was a meteor exploding above the ground sending out an enormous pressure wave, knocking down trees in a radial pattern with the center directly below the point of the explosion.

[@KalebPerkins-u1i]

Squidward: KRAKATOWAAA

[@bukanIqbal375]

Unfunny ngl

[@ElliotsLegoCreations]

My friend and i did a research project for the halifax explosion (he needed my help lol we don't even have the same history class)

[@PintuMahakul]

👍 An excellent and amazing video. We greatly value it. Thank you very much for sharing your wonderful work.

[@stan2703]

It's amazing how little this taught me

[@mamapetillo8675]

Hold up; what about “Beatle Mania”? That rocked the word, man! 🙃👍

[@canadaballplayz9999]

The Tunguska Event was probably similar to what happened in Chelyabinsk where a meteorite exploded over the city

[@arushah6421]

I thought the meteor that killed the dinosaurs would've been on this list.

[@MinmiGamer]

Chixulub: wipes out 90% of life on earth This guy: Exploding building better

[@MK-dv6ut]

And I always thought, the Ming dinasty was overthrown by Flash Gordon, at least on planet Mongo 😂😂😂

[@countzero2712]

"Wangonchang" LMAOOO😭😭😭

[@poil8351]

well krakatoa was small fry compared to mount tambora in 1815 which massive the largest volcanic explosion in recorded history.

[@boncuanakganteng6251]

Toba mountain explosion is the biggest

[@poil8351]

@@boncuanakganteng6251 well most likely but not many people were around back then so that is kind of almost prehistory. so one could make the argument that it doesn't count.

[@-AyushSaha]

#4 reminds me of that one episode in Love Death + Robots

[@matthewrolfe23]

honestly the Dante inferno would be devastating

[@Vexarax]

The eruption of Thera, which led to the downfall of the Minoan civilisation, was four to five times larger than Krakatoa :o it led to nuclear winter, plagues all the way in Egypt, and the sky went dark for months as far away as China! The entire world endured nuclear winter for years afterwards. The main part of their civilisation lived ON Thera so was evaporated in seconds, but there were many more living in Crete who endured tsunamis like 100 feet high, and Earthquakes and tsunamis spread all around the Mediterranean!! The most powerful civilisation in the world at the time pretty much evaporated over night.

[@kitkatd1]

What about the Chernobyl disaster! That was one biggest of the biggest devastating radioactive event in history. So many people lost their lives, still to this day it’s affecting victims of it. A whole land space, full of homes, schools and hospitals. You name it was there. It’s just destroyed and still radioactive. Families still not able to go back to their home towns 😢

[@EggDude2]

fun fact: tsar bomba should be in #1, because kratakoa doesnt count as a nuke, its a volcano eruption

[@mystery62668]

completely forgot the cambrian explosion

[@thela255]

Was it really an explosion though

[@chloeholmes4641]

Fun fact. The Halifax explosion is still the largest man-made non nuclear explosion ever. Beruit back in 2019 (i think?) Was about a third of the size, and that video will give you a terrofying idea of how that explosion was!

[@Croydon387]

Krakatoa: hey there need some winter?

[@Meggimagine]

And art! Give me a Scream by Munch

[@GlitchedBlox]

The Tambora Eruption:

[@Theseriousguy.]

How about lake toba

[@GlitchedBlox]

@Theseriousguy. The big bang:

[@viewtubetheultimatechannel]

Everyone's reaction when they know that tsar Bomba is the 2nd largest explosion: WAIT WHAT?! 😱🤯😵

[@Biorunner44]

Fun fact: the tsar bomba was so powerful it sent a shockwave around the world 3 times

[@N1gh7L0rd]

fun fact: the tsar bomba blew a hole in the ozone layer

[@abriannaaguilera2123]

And left basically no Fallout despite being 386% larger than Castle Bravo.

[@bjornragnarsson8692]

@@abriannaaguilera2123because a) the Tsar Bomba was detonated 4.1 miles above ground; b) the Tsar Bomba was a three stage thermonuclear test which was designed with a tertiary stage pusher/tamper manufactured out of lead to capture and he majority of fast neutrons and prevent further dirty fission unlike most thermonuclear bombs before it. Castle Bravo was a two stage thermonuclear test detonated in a garage over the surface of the etoll where the second stage thermonuclear fusion neutrons fissioned 50% of the fissionable, but not fissile depleted uranium (U-238) tamper due to the fast 14.1 MeV neutron’s from D-T fusion…ultimately unleashing 50% of the bomb’s energy from the very dirty U-238 fast fissioning of the tamper over the ground at 667,000,000 degrees Fahrenheit - vaporizing the etoll, coral, salt water, sea life, and soil to rise 30’000 + kilometers into the sky and rain down radioactive fallout white ash (snow) up to 120-30 miles from the test site via the upper atmospheric wind speed.

[@cornixdemetrius7883]

​@@abriannaaguilera2123No fallout that you know of, comrade

[@chloeholmes4641]

The Bomba detonated about 1k above the ground which created that huge scorch mark which also changed the rotation of the earth by about 2 degrees (I could be wrong tho) which made the world time longer by a few milliseconds ever year

[@kylezdancewicz7346]

@@abriannaaguilera2123Ah yes a nuke, that explodes with radioactive substance, causing a fallout, magically doesn’t; of course the only data we have on this is the very trustworthy Soviets whose main objective was intimidating the west

[@patrick3168]

The Tunguska event was more powerful than Krakatoa because it was a meteor

[@opheliamediola3955]

the siberian explosion was probably a gas explosion that were under the soil and exploded i don't know just that some explosion had an gas explosion but tell me if im wrong

[@FebruaryHas30Days]

Can someone tell me what happened to Jose Rizal during the Krakatoa eruption?

[@ThatIsALakeSir]

random fact : the tsar bomba has an explosion of 50 megatons, but the original amount of megatons was 100 megatons (i think a lot know this)

[@Notactuallynerd_the_Avgeek_5]

You forgot Mount Toba eruption which almost caused human extinction

[@Meggimagine]

I was waiting for Krakatoa! Loudest sound heard in human history. Apparently, people could hear the collapse of the volcanic chamber all the way in Australia

[@TheoneBraincel]

I think you made a mistake there. Mount Tambora was the largest explosion ever recorded in human history, not Krakatoa.

[@vincentwood2280]

The meteor that took out the dinosaurs must be number 1 instead

[@iamthepole723]

Krakatoa eruption also made the loudest noise in the world

[@lambent-the]

Tunguska was a meteor exploding upon entering the atmosphere. At least that’s what I’ve heard.

[@betamiNusDecayLol]

The fricking asteroid from 65million years ago and wiped like 75% of life on earth: am I a joke to you?

[@IWTNM]

Sound recorders were invented in 1870's and krakatoa was in 1883, and thats why we have the sound of it

[@vendettx8837]

i like how the trees get more and more damaged the bigger the explosives

[@Stoic_quotes1]

N1 Soviet moon rocket : do i look like a joke to you

[@Panssaroitu]

The big bang left the chat

[@sandrablanchette2239]

I guessed the biggest would be Krakatoa. Funny, tho, I learned about it from the TV show Time Tunnell.

[@georgekidwell9409]

That is a very old television show from way back in the day.

[@RewindOGTeeHee]

Any explosion in space: am I a joke to you?

[@arandomguyiguessidontevenknow]

the Toba explosion:🗿 u rlly summoned an Indonesian huh?

[@TheSpectacularSpider_Man]

Part of why the tsar bomba was so big is because it was tested in water. If it was texted on land it wouldn’t appear as big. Dong get me wrong, it’s still huge.

[@gremlinman9724]

i feel like the big bang at least deserves an honorary mention

[@theadoumit4673]

Beirut port explosions was considered one of the largest too iirc

[@imaspecofdust3913]

Ngl I thought that one supernova that was visible in the sky during the daytime a few hundred years ago would be in this list

[@Respectfully_Shut]

The asteroid that killed dinosaurs has left the chat:

[@TheSMR1969]

Moon Crashing to earth: am i joke to you ?

[@VCampell-p5p]

I’m not sure if it qualifies, but did you consider the Texas City explosion after WWll?

[@1graham273]

Texas city explosion has joined the chat

[@florians9949]

Tunguska explosion: someone opened a Nether portal and placed a bed.

[@thetrashmaster1352]

Just want to point out that the dinosaurs been real quiet since the sky dropped.

[@greggersonny]

imagine the one in siberia was the US testing an ICBM that travels through the earth, underground to remain undetected by radars

[@creeperboytutorials]

What about the explosion/ meteor ☄️ that killed the dinosaurs

[@conradogoodwin8077]

"You knew it was coming: the nuc-ular bomb!"

[@castleanthrax1833]

It's annoying how so many people say nuclear like that.

[@hollieBlu303]

I love how mother nature makes us look stupid... I'm just praying she can recover from the damage we've been causing and make us look stupid again without (us) ultimately killing us all.

[@ariesleo7396]

Tsar bomba was only half yield to let the pilot escape with a 50-50 chance

[@hollieBlu303]

I know....at least the Russians didn't get it wrong like ...think it qas Castle Bravo? Yeah....2.5 times the expected yield at 15 megatonnes a load of.dwad Japanese fishermen and the contamination of a huge area around Bikini Atoll. BIG mistake 😔 ....it that any of these tests were a good thing. Let's hope that we can avoid another 'mine is bigger than yours' contest. Insanity.

[@AugmentedGravity]

Ok so i was about to say non nuclear explosions but then you pull up with the TSAR bomba and then this list absolutely does not make sense.

[@Cat-lin]

Toba: oh hi brother Krakatoa: hi nice boom2 that's you have toba :) Toba: thx, you too man

[@NguyenLyubyuStrana]

i swear i would lost my mind if some 3yrs old comes and say “big bang”

[@dalimillazan2877]

Eh, this ranking is so absolutely wrong it pains me, there were tons of way stronger volcanic eruptions between tsar bomba and krakatoa, tons of other "man made" explosions between the rest and there even have been stronger eruptions than krakatoa in human history, so this video has no merit and is totally wrong.

[@tonypringles2285]

Name one

[@AnarexicSumo]

@@tonypringles2285 KT impact which literally created the Gulf of Mexico Mount Tambora Vredefort Impact

[@tonypringles2285]

@@AnarexicSumo so just dumb asteroids?

[@znk753]

​@@tonypringles2285what makes an asteroid dumb lmao

[@castleanthrax1833]

"Tons of way stonger"?!? That sentence makes my brain hurt.

[@Classica_1750]

Tunguska is an airblast of meteoric origin, possibly a comet, like Chelyabinsk bolide, but, big

[@laffi]

Seeing the Tsar bomb as the 2nd highest position on this list, and REALLY wondering what is coming next!!! Edit: That went fast, but I barely saw that it was a volcano eruption!

[@nosiebangchan]

Krakatoa was around the Tara wētā eruption which was pretty big at the time ngl

[@tomthumb5445]

He left out Ripple Rock in Campbell River British Columbia Canada. Considered the largest non nuclear blast ever.

[@Deoxyribonucleicacid1]

Underrated asf

[@julianaalcantara3595]

I love.... Even tough might not had got exactly

[@Luninx]

Toba Catastrophe: whos gonna tell them Chixiclub Impact: Nah let em talk shit

[@VyyDaaVyy]

What about Tambora? And ... Toba??

[@xinfamousbullet9513]

#1: Any person after a White Castle crave case.

[@grimace4257]

Remember Splodey the mascot of Halifax

[@hachau497]

“The supernova joins the chat” Tsar bomba: wtf Supernova:bai

[@Cc8tv2]

might aswell have the theia and earth explosion with how random this is selected

[@liamosterhout6538]

I got a bigger one: shoemaker-levy 9 colliding with jupiter. It left a dark cloud larger then earth