On Tue, 2 Nov 2010, Avocet wrote:
> BTW atomic explosions, distant explosions and explosions in space
> don't go bang, but everybody has come to expect them to, so a bang is
> dubbed on. I once saw an interview with a woman who had witnessed a
> huge volcanic explosion, and she ended with: "One thing was weird,
> though - it didn't make any noise!". I wanted to shout: "No lady, if
> you had been close enough to hear it go bang, you would have been
> dead."
I beg to interfere but I was reminded of the sound reach map about the
Krakatoa eruption present in "Soundscapes" by Schafer...
So I would say some do, some don't, vulcanoes are like humans, they don't
all go the same way...
but this remindes me the tactic used by the military when firing this huge=
naval guns: the safest place to be, soundwise, was just next to the firing=
piece.
best,
Ricardo Reis
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