The problem was reports of an "earth-shaking explosion". A blast of that magnitude would almost certainly have vented. Hence I wasted time on analyzing what was most likely a bogus photo -- because we on FR deserved to know if it was -- or was not -- evidence of a vented explosion.
Oh, well, it was a useful exercise in doing something I hadn't done for a while -- and I polished up several useful analysis techniques using different software -- and we had some nice discussions...
Thanks for your work. I have been scouring the world press for any information. So far nothing new or from any new source. Unless the sinking of the $40 million Iranian platform was part of the Ops:)