almost 24 hours since this quake struck. all of them to the north of the epicenter in what is known as a zipper effect. you think of opening or closing a zipper. and you begin to see damage across a widespread area. but some of the images out of new zealand looking like this and damage that has taken place could tally upwards to $7 billion and with a 7.8, you would typically see one magnitude 6.8 or greater although we ve had four 6.0 or greater magnitudes and the hundreds of aftershocks in smaller scale. but statistically speaking in the next several days is when you would see the strongest shaking. 5s or 6s would occur in the next
the half pound bomb set up to know off with sugar icing. the people involved in this activity are creatures of habit. what they were successful at using military grade explosives more than likely. there are a whole series of them. those particular types of explosives it has a quality. they are moving at such a great speed the velocity is 20,000 to 27,000 feet per second. that creates what they call the monroe effect. and when it is placed close to a piece of metal it will burn through the metal and cut the metal apart. like a zipper. the zipper effect is what some engineers refer to when the
hybrid explosive, that means ones that ripped as jimmy was saying. it opens up the side of an airplane, the zipper effect. doesn t take much explosives. if they wanted to make sure the plane went down, they could get it around security and have a baggage handler simply put it in the tail of the plane, use a lot of explosives to make sure the plane came down. weather whether it was a vapor or barometric switch i don t think we ll ever know. i have to emphasize how easy this is once you ve got staff on the ground to get a bomb on and blow a plane up. i mean, you don t need a suicide bomber. you don t need any fancy equipment. and the rest of it, what scares me, is the islamic state has managed to i mean, they understand this and they know that the same sort of security weaknesses exist in europe and the united states. what should worry us now is whether they might try something in this country because a lot of staff we have on the ground is