Quake Confusion after Bomb Blast

Daily Express ^ | September 20, 2008

[Schnucki]

Austrian authorities say what initially appeared to be a small earthquake which rattled Vienna turned out to be the explosion of a large Second World War bomb.

Investigators think the bomb weighed up to 500kg (half a ton).

It lay buried for decades in the garden of a home in the Austrian capital, and no one knew it was there.

When it exploded, officials thought the tremor was caused by a minor earthquake which had somehow set off the bomb.

But experts at the scene on Saturday said there was no quake.

The bomb left a crater when it exploded on Friday evening, but no one was injured.

Unexploded ordnance from the war remains strewn across Austria.

[itsthejourney]

That’s one way to get the garden tilled.

[arthurus]

It’s not any easier to do it that way, though.You still have to find the dirt and shovel it all back into the hole to plant your garden unless you would grow your tomatoes on the roof this year or out in the street.

[libertylover]

Wierd that it would just explode after all this time.

[Cvengr]

Karl Rove’s remote was accidentally tuned into the LHC,...oopsie..

[csvset]

Here's a pic.

Here's a BabbleFish translation of the story.

The quake in Vienna Liesing was consequence of a bomb explosion. The crater is 14 meters wide.

Crater landscape: The bomb exploded in range of vision of the housing estate alto Erlaa at the field of a market garden.
The Kriegsrelikt detonated underground in range of vision of the housing estate alto Erlaa in vienna Liesing. Obviously in order to avoid panic, however the speech was until Saturday morning further from a quake of a tectonic cause.

Gardner Hannes Rossios, 48, can hardly seize it on day after: The teuflische Kriegsrelikt flew scarcely 200 meters behind its house in the Meischlgasse 38 Friday against 20.40 o'clock to air. , Where smell and spice plants were cultivated, the explosion has several meter of deep and 14 meters spreads craters torn.

Scared

“I was in the bath, as it a dull/musty bang gave and the house trembled”, so Rossios. The father of two children with nine and eleven years calmed the family down and went checking: “I ’ believed that a gas tank exploded next door.” To see however nothing was in the darkness, therefore the family went sleeping: “The children were scared and to my wife and me in the bed crept.”

At the same time long the telephones ran hot at police and fire-brigade nearly one hour: From the district parts Erlaa and Inzersdorf announced anxious neighbors, that partly ran in fear on the road, their perceptions: “Powerful Kracher” or “loud bang” as well as “uncanny, deep humming from the earth”. Others had felt a “violent pressure wave”. Table-ware klimperte, Luster wackelten, tables ruckelten.

Cause search

District inspector Wolfgang cook of the inspection Anton Baumgartner road, scarcely a kilometer of air line of only eleven hours later the constituted bomb crater removes: “With us the disks trembled, a colleague in the room it in the armchair through-swung next door.” Immediately made themselves unsuccessful policemen, fire-brigade and gas works on cause search –.

Although numerous witnesses confirmed the explosion, it remained then for the time being with the official phraseology, in which also the earthquake service the high control room and many media practiced: It was a quake, whereby “due to the very local occurrence from the distant instrumental recordings no Magnitudenwert was assignable”.

The assumptions were confirmed Saturday against eight o'clock: “A woman employee constituted the crater on the field”, so gardner Rossios. There bomb experts of their work followed a little later. Also a radiation feeling troop of the police special unit WEGA became beige-pulled. “The measurements resulted in, determined nothing” WEGA boss Colonel Ernst Albrecht.
According to lieutenant colonel Robert intelligent from the state criminal police agency could have acted it with the bomb around a 250 or 500 Kilo heavy US-Kriegsrelikt with chemical long-term fuze. The fuze might have decomposed or activate by vibrations.

[1rudeboy]

Protip: Calculate bomb yield carefully.

[aposiopetic]

Also a radiation feeling troop of the police special unit WEGA became beige-pulled.

Doubtless this eased everyone's concerns.

[Popman]

That’s one way to get the garden tilled.

Here's another

Bunker Buster

[Right Wing Assault]

became beige-pulled

NO! I'll do anything you want. Just don't beige-pull me!

[Americanwolf]

not really the explosives may have finally distablized enough that a slight shift in the soil set it off... happens quite a bit on bombing ranges..