earthquake, but the house wasn t moving, just the window. martha: how far away are you? about a quarter of a mile, half a mile. martha: when you went outside, what did you see? i saw smoke, but i heard a bang, and the planes fly over the house all the time so you think it might be a plane. and then i saw some flames. martha: did you go out and investigate, did you get a closer look or was there anything to get away? no, i went up to seep it and it was terrible. martha: oh my gosh. and the flames, 1000 feet, that s a minimum. it was like you know when a plane crashes, it has a crash field? that s what it was like. martha: at that point did you still think that might what about it was or were people on the scene aware it was a gas explosion at that point? no, they were saying it was a gas station that went up, which it wasn t tkpwau the because the gas station is not there, and they said it was a plane and