* Youtube video demonstrating blast wave in slow motion

Blast doors are designed to absorb the shock wave of a nuclear blast, bending and then returning to their original shape.

The blast from a nuclear bomb is the result of X-ray-heated air ( the fireball ) sending a shock / pressure wave in all directions at a velocity greater than the speed of sound ( aka, the " Mach-Stem "), analogous to thunder generated by lightning.

The blast sent out a hyper-intensified shock wave which travelled at ( slightly above ) the speed of sound, turning buildings into shrapnel.

At one mile ( 1. 6 km ), the force of the blast wave was 5 psi, with enough duration to implode houses and reduce them to kindling.

The thermal pulse, while being hot enough to ignite flammable material at distance, was short in duration and these fires went out immediately after the flash or were blown out by the blast wave.

It is estimated that the shock wave from the blast would have measured 5. 0 on the Richter scale.

A thermobaric weapon, which includes the type known as a " fuel-air bomb ", is an explosive weapon that produces a blast wave of a significantly longer duration than those produced by condensed explosives.

In previous times they were most often encountered in flour mills and their storage containers, and later in coal mines, but now most commonly in discharged oil tankers and refineries, the most recent being at Buncefield in the UK where the blast wave woke people from its centre.

Outside the cloud the blast wave travels at over-7200 mph.

The second charge then detonates the cloud, creating a massive blast wave.

The blast wave destroys unreinforced buildings and equipment and kills and injures people.

The antipersonnel effect of the blast wave is more severe in foxholes, on people with body armor, and in enclosed spaces such as caves, buildings, and bunkers.

As the blast wave passes, Jimmy and Bob clamber out and Jimmy runs to his car, shouting that he is going to try and reach Ruth.

* Explosive: An explosive charge is used to disintegrate the target, and damage surrounding areas with a blast wave.

The results of that missile's explosion are the instant blinding of those who see the explosion, the resultant firestorm caused by the heat wave, and the blast front ; later, the collapse of society, because of radiation sickness, psychological damage, and destroyed infrastructure ; the British Army burns corpses, while police shoot looters during food riots.

Upon detonation, a 1 kiloton neutron bomb would produce a large blast wave, and a powerful pulse of both thermal radiation and ionizing radiation, mostly in the form of fast ( 14. 1 MeV ) neutrons.

This rule has been challenged, however, by military development of thermobaric weapons, which employ a combination of negative shock wave effects and extreme temperature to incinerate objects within the blast radius.

Fallout ( also fall-out ) is the residual radioactive material propelled into the upper atmosphere following a nuclear blast or a nuclear reaction conducted in an unshielded facility, so called because it " falls out " of the sky after the explosion and shock wave have passed.

They noted that although the blast wave was of about the same pressure as that of a high-explosive bomb, the duration of the effect was longer and that brick buildings were collapsed as far as 7, 300 feet at Hiroshima and 8, 500 feet at Nagasaki, while traditional wood houses were about the same, while reinforced-concrete structures suffered structural damage or collapse up to 700 feet at Hiroshima and 2, 000 feet at Nagasaki.

Just before the wave exited the Solar System, the blast also hit the International Sun-Earth Explorer.

This extremely powerful blast of gamma ray radiation constituted the strongest wave of extra-solar gamma rays ever detected ; it was over 100 times more intense than any known previous extra-solar burst.

Overpressure ( or blast overpressure ) is the pressure caused by a shock wave over and above normal atmospheric pressure.

This fragmentation by blast wave is known as spalling, with the fragments themselves known as spall.

For air bursts at or near sea-level, between 50-60 % of the explosion's energy goes into the blast wave, depending on the size and the yield of the bomb.

Paired reports from the same shot may be observed when the listener is first reached by the shock wave generated by the bullet flying past at supersonic speed, then by the muzzle blast moving at sound speed all the way from the muzzle.

These six photographs, taken sideways on to the lateral blast, vividly show the extent and size of the avalanche and flows as they reached northwards over and beyond Johnston's position.

Several of the morning shift men were standing round the mouth of the pit, waiting to go down, when the blast occurred, and the part who had just descended met it soon after they had reached the bottom of the shaft ; these were most miserably burnt and mangled.

The devastating effects of the blast reached the west shore of the lake where a number of villages were also destroyed.

The younger boy said the blast knocked him out of bed and against the wall.

As the blast sends him toppling backward with a hole in his forehead, his mother snaps, " Harold!

When he lights the pipe, the blast knocks him unconscious, blackens his skin and burns away all his hair.

Alvin arranges for his mower to be transported back home on a flatbed truck ( with him still perched on the mower's seat ), where he takes out his frustrations on the mower by blowing up its motor and gas tank with a well-aimed shotgun blast.

The Champion was overpowered by the Silver Surfer, suffering his first known defeat in combat ( however it is notable the Surfer used the Power Cosmic to blast the Champion rather than engage him physically ).

Qui-Gon tries to cut through the bridge's blast doors with his lightsaber, but the arrival of Federation droidekas force him and his apprentice to escape and they stow away on troop transports invading Naboo.

He was awarded the honor for stopping a Viet Cong prisoner in possession of a live grenade by grabbing him in a " bear hug " and forcing the prisoner to the ground, taking the full force of the grenade's blast and saving several of his commanders.

But just as Chip claims victory, Alan seizes Chip and jams him into the powerline, triggering an EMP blast which kills Chip along with all of the remaining Commando Elite and Gwendy toys.

His main techniques include the, an attack he learned from Roshi, which enables him to emit a powerful ki energy blast from his hands.

Somehow, Mordaunt escapes the blast, and pleads with the Musketeers to let him into their boat.

He then analyzed the gases from blast furnaces, which helped him understand the role of heat in the changes of states ( phases ) of metals.

Reilly subsequently attempted to destroy the symbiote by subjecting himself to a potentially lethal blast of microwaves, but it escaped back to Kasady after the microwaves forced it to separate from him.

Rhino eventually gets through the cage completely after Spider-Man dodges him once more, but the villain is defeated when he rams a pole into a gas station that blows up and sends Rhino flying away from the blast.

It exploded, and the blast slammed him backward, shredding both his legs and one arm.

") and Crow to stuff him into an airlock and blast him out of the ship and into space.

However, Ravonna is mortally wounded by Baltrog, when she leaps in front of the blast meant for Kang, realizing she loved him.

" And when Virgil told him to hit a villain with a " web blast ," he replies, " I'm not that kind of spider.

Jack is believed to be an imposter attempting to imitate Santa, and the military goes on alert to blast him out of the sky.

In the Supreme Power: Hyperion miniseries, a hastily-assembled team of superhumans is sent by the government to retrieve him, and the resulting battle — through an interaction of Hyperion's " flash vision " eye-beams, Nuke's radiation blast, and Arcanna's reality manipulation — sends the combatants into a ( seeming ) alternate timeline where Hyperion and the Squadron Supreme ( consisting of several retrieval team members plus several previously unseen superhumans ) rule a dystopian world, causing Hyperion on the advice of his otherworld counterpart to rethink his ideas about power, humanity, and teamwork, leading him to surrender to the Squadron from his world.

", and tears him apart with a tornado blast, then has his remains melted down for good measure.

There, she easily located the team's hidden bunker, shut off Cable's weaponry, and disrupted Cannonball's blast field, allowing Sauron to stab him in the chest.

She has, for example, disrupted the blast field of Cannonball, making him vulnerable, and also caused the superhero Sleepwalker to temporarily lose control of his reality-warping ability.

Ultimately, Are shot him with a tank cannon blast, killing Zeu.