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

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 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,