Sandrine Zeinoun, 34, poses for a photograph inside her destroyed apartment after Tuesday's explosion in the seaport of Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, Aug. 6, 2020. The gigantic explosion in Beirut on Tuesday tore through homes, blowing off doors and windows, toppling cupboards, and sent flying books, shelves, lamps and everything else. Within a few tragic seconds, more than a quarter of a million people of the Lebanese capital's residents were left with homes unfit to live in. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)BEIRUT The gigantic explosion in Beirut on Tuesday tore through homes, blowing off doors and windows, toppling cupboards, and sent flying books, shelves, lamps and everything else. Within a few tragic seconds, more than a quarter of a million people of the Lebanese capitals residents were left with homes unfit to live in.

BEIRUT Videos captured and shared on social media show a massive explosion that rocked Lebanons capital city Beirut on Tuesday. This is a video filmed by someone who was standing on his balcony close to the port of #Beirut. First you see big plumes of smoke followed by small explosions on ground level and finally an enormous explosion. Fireworks can be seen clearly in this video https://t.co/Z2DMT0JNbs pic.twitter.com/fXZgMbJ0EV Ali (@allushiii_new) August 4, 2020The cause of the blast was not immediately clear. WATCH: Aftermath of Beirut's massive explosion.