He heard nothing after the initial blast, no sound of settling rubble; that was bad.

The initial blast killed a dozen or so people, witnesses said.

Many of them, however, came back after the initial blasts and endured the disruption.

Smaller explosions continued to occur for hours after the initial blast.

With luck the whale's mass would shadow me from the initial blast.

He is on a bus when he experiences the initial blast.

We can expect the initial blast to begin within five minutes.

He'd been running away from his doomed vehicle until the initial blast knocked him down.

Eye witnesses reported the initial blast "had a wall of fire more than 1,000 feet high".

Life Emergency says another four died in the initial blast.