Top 10 most powerful non-nuclear explosions

Train accident near Ufa, USSR. During the passage of two passenger trains No. 211 “Novosibirsk-Adler” and No. 212 “Adler-Novosibirsk,” a powerful explosion occurred in an unlimited cloud of wide fractions of light hydrocarbons, formed as a result of an accident on the nearby Siberia-Ural-Volga region pipeline. 575 people were killed, 181 of them were children, and more than 600 were injured.
The explosion of a large volume of gas distributed in space had the character of a volumetric explosion. The power of the explosion was estimated at 250-300 tons of trinitrotoluene. According to other estimates, the power of the volumetric explosion could reach 12 kilotons of TNT, which is comparable to the power of the nuclear explosion in Hiroshima (16 kilotons) /

Train explosion in Arzamas. Three cars detonated, carrying a total of 121 tons of hexogen intended for mining enterprises. At the time of the explosion, the train was passing through a railway crossing in the city of Arzamas.
The explosion destroyed 151 houses, leaving more than 800 families homeless. According to official data, 91 people died and 1,500 were injured. 250 meters of the railway track were destroyed, the railway station was damaged, an electrical substation and power lines were destroyed, and a gas pipeline was damaged. 2 hospitals, 49 kindergartens, 14 schools, 69 shops were damaged.

Explosion during the second launch of the N1 launch vehicle, USSR. The accident was due to abnormal operation of engine No. 8 of block A and the shutdown of all engines on the 23rd flight. The carrier fell to the launch site. As a result of the largest explosion in the history of rocket science, one launch pad was completely destroyed, and the second was seriously damaged.

British Engineers carried out an explosion on the island of Heligoland. The purpose of the explosion was to destroy German bunkers and structures. About 4,000 torpedo warheads, 9,000 underwater bombs, 91,000 grenades of various calibers were blown up - a total of 6,700 tons of explosives. Score - 3.2 kt. Included in the Guinness Book of Records as the largest explosive detonation.

Texas City. The explosion of up to 2,300 tons of ammonium nitrate and subsequent fires and explosions killed at least 581 people.

During the loading of ammonal in Nakhodka, the Dalstroy steamship exploded. 400 tons of TNT detonated.

Explosion of the steamship "Fort Staykin", Bombay - 1400 tons of explosives, killed about 800 people.

explosion of the cellars of the stern towers of the battleship Mutsu. More than 1000 dead.

The Battle of Messina - the explosion of 19 huge mines, containing a total of more than 455 tons of ammonium explosives. It is estimated that about 10 thousand Germans died.

in the Battle of Jutland - as a result of an artillery explosion. 3 British ships sank in the cellars: Indefatigable (1015 dead), Queen Mary (1262 dead), Invincible (1026 dead).