‘Colossal’ explosions have filled the skies in Syria as Israeli strikes are said to have targeted military sites with the ‘the heaviest strikes’ in the area for more than a decade – with blasts which registered on earthquake sensors, measuring as a magnitude 3.0 on seismic sensors.
Daily Mail (h/t Nita) ‘Israeli warplanes launched strikes’ targeting a series of sites including air defence units and ‘surface-to-surface missile depots’, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, in what it said were ‘the heaviest strikes in Syria’s coastal region since the start of strikes in 2012’.
The huge explosion, as well as secondary explosions, may indicate the presence of a large volume of stored armaments. Dramatic videos circulating on social media showed a huge bright flash followed by several explosions which sent an enormous mushroom cloud of smoke into the air.
According to researcher Richard Cordaro the blast was detected by a magnetometer station 820km away in Isnik in western Turkiye. He added that the signal had travelled about ‘as twice as fast’ as that of a typical earthquake.
Until 2017 the facility was classed as a ‘Material-Technical Support Point’ rather than a base, and is Russia’s only entrance point to the Mediterranean. Putin ordered the base’s expansion in 2017, after Assad gave a 49-year lease on the facility free-of-charge in exchange for helping keep him in power.
On Wednesday, a Kremlin spokesperson had said Moscow was in contact with the new authorities in Syria regarding their bases’ future. The air strikes now raise more questions about the future of the Russian assets in the country, including the Hmeimim military airfield.
A Massive Explosion seen in Northwestern Syria near the City of Tartus, following an Israeli Strike against a Munitions Depot; with the Explosion reported to have been so large, that it measured as a 3.0 Magnitude Earthquake on nearby Seismic Sensors. pic.twitter.com/i1jC1vNjVJ
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The second photo could almost be considered a work of art.
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