How could a blast be "heard from 40 miles away?"
Big sucker. CNN says they're leaving coverage on the US feeds, but are keeping it on CNN international.
Because it can? We had an explosion in Deer Park, TX that set off the seismographs at Rice University in Houston, 20 miles away.
"How could a blast be "heard from 40 miles away?"
People are reporting that they were woken up by it at a further distance than that. Big bang.
Turn up the volume on your hearing aid.....[grin]