content: Find it on a map and look at aerial photos, its basically a heavy industrial area/port on the edge of a city. The industrial zone does not have the density of the city, and at night theyd be far fewer people. The perspective makes it look like the explosion was beside a highrise, but thats not accurate. If the explosion was centred in the industrial zone, the damage and risk to the city was debris and shockwave. I'd be surprised if it was 17, I'd expect maybe 100, but not thousands.