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I hope that the person who claimed that the explosion caused the earthquake can go back and find his source, because this is really an interesting claim. It is well accepted that human activity can cause small earthquakes, [1] but typically these are either the result of a very long slow process that changes the mass of a landscape (digging a mine, building a dam) or are directly associated with the site of a huge explosion (like a nuclear bomb). Though I'm not a seismologist and I could have missed much, I've never heard of a case where you set off an explosion and get a real earthquake (i.e. actual shift of geologic plates) somewhere else. It would be interesting if this really happened. It would also be interesting if an underground bunker of secret weapons was destroyed... Wnt ( talk) 23:26, 5 July 2008 (UTC)
For context, a 3.2 earthquake packs about the same energy as fifty tons of TNT. If it weren't in a different location I would suggest it had been an explosion at the depot. I suppose it's possible the Chelopechene explosions could have caused the earthquake, given the earthquake's small size, but this claim needs the attention of a geologist. Quicksilvre ( talk) 01:52, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
This short article in Bulgarian contains some details about the earthquake, citing the Geophysical Institute of the Bulgarian Academy Of Sciences. The Institute has a
website, but it seems that updating it is not among their top priorities. :( --
Daggerstab (
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21:42, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
Oops, my bad - this article cites the Institute, the one above doesn't. -- Daggerstab ( talk) 06:43, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
I removed the following section. Speculation about causes is non-factual and doesn't belong here. A paragraph saying that the cause has not been determined yet, but that the government has instituted such-and-such an inquiry probably does. But just so you know what people were thinking round here, here they are:
Possible causes
Jason A. Recliner ( talk) 08:27, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
I don't think that fits. For the simple reason that the explosions started when the workers shift was not started yet. If there was a worker that started fire by mistake, he wouldn't be alive after the explosions, and you know there's no fatalities.
From what I know there is not destruction place there. The main destruction place used for ammunition is Zmeevo, located near Stara Zagora, about 240 km east from Sofia. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.87.6.21 ( talk) 10:35, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
I know this is complete heresay, but I was one of the State Department contractors that came over in Winter/Spring of '09 to collect and dispose of munitions. Judging from the depth of the blast craters and their locations relative to eachother, it is highly unlikely that this was accidental. An accidental fire would have had to have been absolutely massive to have set off each of the major detonation sites, and while there was a good deal of explosive damage at the site, there was almost no sign of massive fire (the trees were unscarred, the ground unscorched, and the building derbris unburned). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.159.81.6 ( talk) 17:55, 13 September 2010 (UTC)
Are there any videotapes of this? Spike TV has shows that depict these kinds of accidents, such as the Pepcon Explosion depicted in The World's Scariest Explosions. 65.173.105.27 ( talk) 19:52, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
The president were not first on the scene, but mayor of Sofia was, according to all TV and radio programs that I did watch and listen that morning. Did some fan of Georgi Parvanov wrote this? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.130.27.38 ( talk) 07:55, 11 July 2008 (UTC)