[eastforker]

Very good photo analysis, thank you. I hadn't taken into account that the crater was already being filled in.Any guess as to the actual strength of the explosion and any ordinance we have in our arsenal?

[Boot Hill]

"Any guess as to the actual strength of the explosion and any ordinance we have in our arsenal?

Given the size of the crater and the damage shown in the photographs to the surrounding area, I suspect that we're talking about a device containing somewhere in the neighborhood of 10-20 tons of explosive. But you would need to adjust that figure up or down by an efficiency factor, once the specific type of explosive material has been determined.

This is the kind of damage I'd expect from a MOAB on steroids.

--Boot Hill