Amateur video footage of the explosion showed a large-scale explosion about 11:30 p.m. lighting up a dark sky far on the horizon from where the footage was taken.
The video of the explosion has quickly spread through Chinese social media, including Weibo.
Twitter user @freewill89 said a “powerful blast” rocked Tianjin’s Binhai New Area, that faces a coastal area and the Yellow Sea that separates China from the Korean peninsula.
