You Can See the Explosion from Orbit

Exactly What It Says on the Tin: There's an explosion, and we see it from orbit.

On the "sliding scale of blowed up real good", this is much larger than Impressive Pyrotechnics, but much smaller than an Earthshattering Kaboom.

Anime and Manga

 * You can see the explosions from orbit in Super Dimension Fortress Macross when the main Zentradi fleet arrives.
 * Played for Laughs in the Hot Springs Episode of Rental Magica.

Film

 * Rogue One: A Star Wars Story has an example early on, when the Death Star "test fires" its main cannon.

Web Comics

 * Being a parody of the Star Wars movies, Darths and Droids has the same explosions as those movies, including the one visible from orbit in Rogue One.

Real Life

 * Whenever a dinosaur-killer asteroid hits Earth, the resulting impact - which may as well be an explosion - can be seen from orbit.
 * Nuclear explosions of most magnitudes are visible from orbit, at least as a flash of light approximately as bright as the star Vega. But that's not nearly as dramatic as the other explosions listed on this page.