Earthquake update

Looks like the USGS put it the earthquake at M3.4. NMT calculated it to be a 2.9, but that is probably an underestimate. Lots of fun! Here are a couple of links
http://www.ees.nmt.edu/Geop/recentquakes.html
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/us2007csam.php

and a picture of an actual seismogram. I was going to stitch several together to show the whole thing, but it didn't turn out well for some reason.

EARTHQUAKE!

Just had another earthquake. I will post more once I find out. It is probably going to be around M2.5 again, though after looking at the seismogram from the 2.5, this looks bigger, so it could be as big as a M3. Here is the online seismogram of it. Looks like there were a few fore shocks. Once again I heard it coming, though it wasn't as loud as the first one. The main jolt felt stronger this time, there was a strong jolt to my chair.

Big Boom

I finnaly got around to taking screen shots of the video.

This is the car they blew up. A nice, redish, hail damgaed car. The lines going through the picture are from the mirrors. They made us watch the explosion in a bunker so we wouldn't be hit by flying debree. The shock wave would have hurt our ears if we had been unprotected. As it was it was still really loud.

Note the shock wave above the explosion. Though it is not visible on most of the screen shots, the shock wave was quite visible in the movie. The flying debree was also very obvious.

Another picture of the fire ball.

And finnaly a picture of what is left of the car. It looks like it may be the engine block or something. It is also possible to see how far the engine was throw from where it started initially. It seems like they told us that they put the explosives in the back seat. Due to atmospheric conditions they only used 100 lbs of explose instead of the usual 500 lbs...