Quote Originally Posted by Montmorency View Post
I saw several Beirut videos taken from car in which the shockwave knocked the rearview mirror loose from its socket. Why does that happen, when nothing else in the car - including windows - appears to be affected?
Shockwave strength drops according to inverse square law so it could be that the videos which made it to the internet were from observers a certain distance away that the pressure wave was enough to violently shake a vehicle but not destroy the windows. People in cars close enough to have the glass shatter and fly into the passengers are probably not in a state to browse tiktok. Keep in mind car windows (at least the windshield) are designed to hold up to wind forces of over 120 miles per hour, since people will be driving up to those speeds.