2min 30sec + shows similar detonation on 100ton and 500ton of TNT. Explains shock wave.
https://youtu.be/rdHRX7iIAQs
>The Beirut explosion was a 3.3 to 4.5 on the earthquake scale.
Well 500ton was used to simulate nuke in that vid by mil (half a megaton).
Would guess in that neighborhood equivalence, maybe 200-500 tons (TNT)
It was a big boom hard to say.
Can only speculate from 8 lbs of explosive target material.
Dominic
Repeat of Androscoggin, successful, target accuracy within 100 ft (30 m); last U.S. nuclear weapon airdrop. 2.56 kt/kg. Housatonic - 8.3 Megaton Airdrop @ 12,130ft - Operation Dominic October 30 (1962) ~2400 frames per second