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For a list based on power or death toll see largest artificial non-nuclear explosions or the explosions section of list of accidents and disasters by death toll. This list also contains notable explosions that would not qualify for the articles mentioned above and is more detailed, especially for the latest centuries.
Determining the power of explosions is difficult, but this was probably the largest planned explosion in history until the 1945 Trinity atomic weapon test, and the largest non-nuclear planned explosion until the 1947 British Heligoland detonation (below). The Messines mines detonation killed more people than any other non-nuclear deliberate ...
It was the deadliest industrial accident in U.S. history and one of history's largest non-nuclear explosions. The explosion was triggered by a mid-morning fire on board the French-registered vessel SS Grandcamp (docked at port), which detonated her cargo of about 2,300 tons (about 2,100 metric tons) of ammonium nitrate. [1]
Pages in category "Explosions in the United States" ... This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9. 1946 Greenville propane explosion ... a non-profit ...
The Halifax Explosion was one of the largest artificial non-nuclear explosions. An extensive comparison of 130 major explosions by Halifax historian Jay White in 1994 concluded that it "remains unchallenged in overall magnitude as long as five criteria are considered together: number of casualties, force of blast, radius of devastation ...
Nike, Safeway, and Truist Bank all targeted with explosions within 15 minutes of each other on Sunday morning Washington DC explosions – latest: Nation’s capital on edge as new photos show ...
USS Mount Hood, 10 November 1944 explosion of an ammunition ship at Seeadler Harbor, 432 killed; Tolar, New Mexico, 30 November 1944, munitions carried by train exploded, causing extensive damage to town and killing 1. RAF Fauld explosion, UK underground munitions storage depot in 1944, one of the largest non-nuclear explosions in history
Ten members of the Beirut Fire Brigade, who arrived at the port that evening following a call about a fire, were eviscerated minutes later by one of the largest ever non-nuclear explosions.