Ask the parents of that kid who was killed in Canberra by the controlled demolition, and the people around him at the time.
Buildings don't collapse in silence, the noise after a demolition implosion is bigger and louder than the bang that sets them falling, described by many wrongly as a second series of explosions after the demolition explosions are long long gone! That is frequently the internal floors pancaking, and when tonnes of flat surface pancake it creates a shockwave / pressure wave akin to an explosion, the same mechanism as clapping your hands.
The innocent bystanders on record are not expert witnesses, seeing something dramatic once in their life that they have never seen before, they neither have the words or training to explain what they saw, and most of the words gleamed from interviews are placed there by inadvertent suggestions from the interviewers. It is the experts listening to those reports, and making the associations with real world actions, that build a picture of the event.
Buildings don't collapse in silence, the noise after a demolition implosion is bigger and louder than the bang that sets them falling, described by many wrongly as a second series of explosions after the demolition explosions are long long gone! That is frequently the internal floors pancaking, and when tonnes of flat surface pancake it creates a shockwave / pressure wave akin to an explosion, the same mechanism as clapping your hands.
The innocent bystanders on record are not expert witnesses, seeing something dramatic once in their life that they have never seen before, they neither have the words or training to explain what they saw, and most of the words gleamed from interviews are placed there by inadvertent suggestions from the interviewers. It is the experts listening to those reports, and making the associations with real world actions, that build a picture of the event.
"Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck ....... Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck"