An air strike by Israel on Syria caused an explosion so big it could be felt more than 500 miles away. Video footage shows a enormous orange blast in the distance that fills the sky, shortly before the explosion can be heard.

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.

Israeli air strikes on a military site in Syria overnight were as powerful as a 3.1 magnitude earthquake. The bombing, which targeted military sites in Syria’s coastal Tartus region, were described as “the heaviest strikes” in the area in more than a decade.

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.

A huge explosion has rocked northwestern Syria following an Israeli airstrike, with video showing the moment the massive blast sent a fireball into the sky

Video circulating on social media shows an enormous explosion after Israeli warplanes dropped a bomb in northern Syria.

Israel has bombarded a city in northwestern Syria with airstrikes described as the "the heaviest strikes" in the area for more than a decade.The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said the overnight strikes on "surface-to-surface missile depots" set off explosions so big it measured as a 3.