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Originally Posted by Terry B
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Hi All & Terry,
For an explosion or impact resulting in any kind of crater in hard ground, the debri would be flying out at tremendous speed like shrapnel.
I find it hard to believe that a person would survive at the close proximity the article describes. The shock wave alone would have caused fatal injuries.
If the teen was at some distance a glancing blow by debri would do the expected injury. The speed that all this occurs would be so great that he would not be able to discriminate what happened first. The impact or the injury to the hand.
I say that a very probable explanation is that the media has sensationalized the incident and the truth being that the teen was some safer distance from the impact area.
Cheers Marty