![]() ![]() The blast left part of the two story apartment building collapsed. It was just chaos.”ĭuncan’s mother made it out, but now her whole family, like the rest of the residents at the complex, is without a home. About 300 residents from 200 households were affected. “Now saying she can’t breathe and she’s choking. It just exploded.’” Before Duncan could even respond, “Boom! I hear another explosion in the background,” she said. “She gives me this call, frantic, hollering and screaming saying, ‘The apartment just exploded next to us. But her disabled mother was still at the apartment waiting for her caretaker to arrive. Jennifer Duncan, who lives in the complex, was out working that morning. In the middle of their investigation, the place lit up. The next morning, before the explosion, Dallas Fire-Rescue came to check for a potential gas leak. Russians accuse Ukraine of attacking the dam, but Ukrainians claim Russians used demolition charges to destroy it.In Oak Cliff's Highland Hills Apartments, residents had smelled gas the night before a blast rocked the apartment complex and displaced hundreds. Nor can the the detection say what caused an explosion. But Oye says explosions in this particular part of Ukraine are rarely seen, and so a blast due to something else would be an unusual coincidence. The seismic arrays can't locate the blast to closer than within 20-30 kilometers (12-19 miles) of the dam. "We see a pulse of energy which is focused, which is typical of an explosion," Volker Oye, a seismologist at NORSAR who's analyzed the data, told NPR. But according to NORSAR, which monitors for underground nuclear tests and other seismic events, there was an explosion detected around the time the dam is thought to have collapsed. The strain and previous damage to the dam led to speculation that it might have collapsed on its own. Norwegian seismologists say it looks like an explosion. NORSAR The seismic signal as detected in Romania, 620 kilometers (385 miles) from the dam. Russia, which controls the dam, only had a few of its 28 gates open since November of last year. Spring rains had filled the Kakhovka Reservoir to capacity, and water had been spilling over the top of the dam, which did not have enough sluice gates open to manage the flow. The dam had been under even more stress in recent weeks. In recent months it had endured bombardment at the hands of Ukrainian forces and at least one explosion, believed to be caused by retreating Russian troops who blew up a road over the dam. The Kakhovka Dam sat on the front lines of the war, with Russian forces on one side and Ukrainian troops on the other. "Without international investigation teams. "The evidence should be carefully collected and presented," Zelenskyy said during an online press event about the dam collapse. The detection is the first piece of independent evidence that the dam, which held back a reservoir roughly the size of Utah's Great Salt Lake, was blown up, rather than collapsing from strain and mismanagement.Īt a press conference earlier today, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called for an international investigation of what happened to the dam. ![]() According to their data, the explosion took place on June 6 at 2:54 AM local time in Ukraine. The analysis was done by NORSAR, a Norwegian group that monitors seismic networks throughout Europe. ![]() Seismic stations in Ukraine and Romania detected what appears to be an explosion at the Kakhovka Dam on the morning that it failed, Norwegian seismologists tell NPR. ![]()
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