Table 6.

Damage to surrounding buildings caused by the explosion of the West fertilizer plant in the United States.

Serial number	Building name	Distance to epicenter (m)	Damage to buildings	Damage scale
A1	2-story wood light-frame apartment complex	166	Roofs complete blow out. East wall surface: collapsed completely; west wall surface: collapsed partially (the second story collapsed); north and south surfaces: façade collapsed completely, wall panels severely damaged. Wood framing destructed completely.	DS7
A2	A regular-shaped single-story residential house	174	A large area of Collapse. East surface destructed completely; a large area of façade collapse and wall panel destruction (south surface). East surface wall framing destroyed; large amount of roof truss failure.	DS7
A3	A single-family residential house	256	Very large deflections; several big holes. A large area of façade collapses (south surface). Failure of several roof trusses.	DS6
A4	A residential house	442	Shattering of all window glass on the east surface. Destruction of the garage door; several small-sized roof shingle torn offs.	DS4
A5	A residential house	526	All window glass is broken or Shattered. Destruction of garage door; small area of brick facade collapse (north surface).	DS4
A6	A school	827	There are small areas where the brick façade wall collapsed, corrugated wall panels and the garage door slightly buckled, and a few window glasses were broken. For the interior of the building, a lot of ceiling materials, e.g., boards, grids, and insulation materials, collapsed.	DS3