Did you discern that on the 6th day of December 1917, 1,600 people died when a speeding Norwegian vessel strikes with a French munitions ship taking about 2,925 metric tons (about 3,224 small tons) of explosives in Halifax, Nova Scotia?

The French munitions craft incurred flame and detonated about 20 minutes after the crash. It was the most enormous human-made blast up to that time, issuing the commensurate energy of about 2.9 kilotons of TNT (12,000 GJ).

The blast and the 60 feet (18 meters) long wave of water devastated much of the city, damaging each building within a 1.6 mile (2.6 km) radius. Hundreds of individuals viewing the fire from behind windowpanes were blinded when the shock wave shivered the glass.