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You're underestimating the sensitivity of seismic sensors. Bear in mind that they picked up not only the initial rupture, but also the noise of the escaping gas

You're underestimating the sensitivity of seismic sensors. Bear in mind that they picked up not only the initial rupture, but also the noise of the escaping gas after the fact. I've been firmly in camp incompetence-before-malice since they went pop; the 17 hour gap just doesn't feel right for an intentional attack. Shoddy maintenance causing catastrophic failure by some mechanism even if it's not hydrate plugs makes at least as much sense to me as geopolitical tomfoolery.

MichaelCollins 4y ago
> the 17 hour gap just doesn't feel right for an intentional attack Why? 17 hours is enough time to figure out what happened, but not enough time to prevent it from happening again. If the attacks were calculated to have a psychological impact on political leadership, 17 hours or so sounds about right to me. And keep in mind, the bombs might have been planted months ago. 17 hours isn't enough time to inspect the whole pipe for more bombs.