The Israeli bombardment of Syria has reached a colossal magnitude following the fall of President Bashar al-Assad, as the impact from the latest salvo of airstrikes could be felt on the Richter Scale—marking the heaviest attack on the embattled nation in 12 years.

The Israeli bomb explosion took place in northwestern Syria near the city of Tartus with a giant mushroom cloud fireball visible in the aftermath.

The massive explosion and subsequent secondary blasts suggested a large cache of stored armaments in the area.

The massive blast, along with subsequent explosions, suggests a massive stockpile of weapons may have been present at the site.

This is the dramatic moment Israel dropped a so-called ‘earthquake bomb’ on Syria, with the blast so powerful it reportedly measured on the Richter scale.

Israel's bombing of Syrian military assets and its entry into the UN-patrolled buffer zone on the Golan Heights show it fears the worst from the end of the Assad clan's rule, analysts told AFP.   "The Israeli

Israel’s demilitarization of Syria continued with one of its biggest strikes yet, triggering an explosion that registered on the Richter scale. On Sunday, Israel launched the “most violent round ever” of airstrikes in Syria since the first in 2012,

Israel has dropped an absolutely enormous bomb on Syria, with the subsequent explosion at a munitions depot registering a 3.0 on the Richter scale

Israeli strikes on military targets in Syria overnight set off explosions as powerful as a 3.1 magnitude earthquake.