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

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.

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

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 has dropped an absolutely enormous bomb on Syria, so massive it registered a 3.0 on the Richter scale. This is Israel's response to Bashar al-Assad fleeing, leaving Syria vulnerable to falling

"Israeli warplanes launched strikes' targeting a series of sites including air defence units and 'surface-to-surface missile depots," said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, in what it called "the heaviest strikes in Syria's coastal region since the start of strikes in 2012.

Targeting missile depots and air defense systems, Israeli airstrikes on Syria's Tartus area resulted in enormous explosions that were measured as an earthquake of magnitude 3.0. Significant political changes occurred at the same time as the strikes,