This map shows the shocking damage the deadly blast in Beirut would have caused if it had happened in Dublin.
The Lebanese city was rocked by the explosion as 2,750 tonnes of highly explosive ammonium nitrate stored in a city centre warehouse blew up.
The horrific incident has taken the lives of at least 135 people with more than 5,000 people injured in a boom that one Irishman who experienced it said would have been big enough to smash every window from Blackrock to Howth, Dublin Live reports.
But this map shows that the damage would have even been worse than that with the detonation covering a circumference of 25.2km.
It demonstrates that the blast would have tore apart the central of Dublin with heavy damage caused from the City Centre to Dundrum and its outskirts.
Damage would have been reported from Lucan right up to Swords and right down to as far as the outskirts of Bray too.
While even people in Wicklow, Louth, Meath and Kildare could possibly have seen their windows smashed in the eruption.
Anthony Cleary experienced the terrible tragedy first hand as he lived about half a kilometre away from the blast - the Irishman who made the claim that it would have destroyed Dublin from Blackrock to Howth.
Himself and his wife Maria were both cut, bruised, and shaken by the disaster, but they are both safe, well, and alive.
Niamh Fleming-Farrell was with a pal grabbing a bottle of wine from the bookshop and café she owns just a few streets away when the blast hit.
She said: “We were standing there when we heard a sound which sounded to me like the sound barrier being broken.”
“I walked toward the door like an idiot to see what it was and then obviously the second blast hit and I was thrown backwards.”
The shaken business owner said ‘half the city’ has been destroyed by the explosion, which was felt as far away as Cyprus.
“It’s incredible how far this thing has extended.
“Every single building and shop has had windows, shutters blown off."
