Now about this picture...www.globalsecurity.org...:
They have two craters outlined, can't get the blowup to download to look at closer.
Primary and secondary explosion's?????
Now about this picture...www.globalsecurity.org...:
They have two craters outlined, can't get the blowup to download to look at closer.
Primary and secondary explosion's?????
"[The photo] have two craters outlined...Primary and secondary explosion's?????
For the benefit of other readers that haven't gone as far as you have in tracking down this stuff...
The photo you posted in your #144 came from this website...
Ryongchon, DPRK Train-wreck and Explosion
That Global Security.com web page contains 24 thumbnail photos, linked to their bigger, original photos. Fully half of those photos (12) are altered versions of photos number one and two on that webpage. The other ten of that set, are software altered blow-ups of those first two primary photos.
Note in particular photos 2, 5, and 12 (the one you posted in #144) and you can see that 5 and 12 are simply artificial (software altered) zoom views of the original photo #2.
If you look carefully at photo #12 that you posted in your reply #144, you can see what appears to be only one crater that is in the process of being filled in by the tractors in such a away that it gives the impression of being two craters. Note the tractors at the top of the pictures and then note the vertical excavation marks extending from the tractors to the crater area.
Take a look below at the B&W satellite picture, which is photo #14 on that Global Security.com web page. It was taken (4/24) two days after the explosion (4/22), but three days before the photo you posted (4/27). Even in this photo, the excavation project has already begun, but notice the difference in the degree of excavation.
Also notice something else kind of interesting in that satellite photo above. Notice to the left of the crater, the railway cars labeled "Rail Rolling Stock". Three days later, in the photo #12 that you posted, they have been removed. (Note also that the three railway cars to the right of the crater are present in both photos.) I think I located a couple of photos of those "Rail Rolling Stock", before they were moved. (The first is a repeat of one already posted by menotyu in reply #101, above) Anyway, here they are...
If you look closely you can see that both photos are of the same set of railway cars, the ones to the "left" of the crater.
--Boot Hill