Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by brummm 2144 days ago
I am curious about 2 and 3. Since sounds is also just a pressure wave, those two should have been the same speed as well. I guess the sounds must have travelled through the ground as well.
2 comments

This is explained in the article. It describes the pressure wave as moving slower than the speed of sound. It was not a shockwave which would be generated by high-explosives which would travel at the speed of sound and be much more deadly.
The speed of sound in pretty much any solid (or liquid) body is much faster than in the air. That's why the earthquake came first, and it was probably the earthquake that caused the 2. noises.