Islam Hamama, Masa-Yuki Yamamoto, Mohamed N ElGabry, Noha Ismail Medhat, Hany S Elbehiri, Adel Sami Othman, Mona Abdelazim, Ahmed Lethy, Sherif M El-Hady, Hesham Hussein
Chemical explosions are ground truth events that provide data, which, in turn, can enhance the understanding of wave propagation, damage assessment, and yield estimation. On 4 August 2020, Beirut, Lebanon was shocked by a catastrophic explosion, which caused devastating damage to the Mediterranean city. A second strong chemical explosion took place at the Xiangshui, China chemical plant on 21 March 2019. Both events generated shock waves that transitioned to infrasound waves, seismic waves, as well as hydroacoustic signals with accompanying T-phases in the case of the Beirut event...
March 2022: Journal of the Acoustical Society of America