CenterPoint Energy, which supplies electricity and gas to the area, said crews did not detect the presence of natural gas outside the destroyed homes following the explosion and stated its natural gas system did not appear to be compromised.
EVANSVILLE — Officials have yet to publicly identify a cause to Wednesday's deadly home explosion, but outside experts said the blast bears many of the hallmarks found in incidents caused by a natural gas leak.
“We don’t know if this is gas yet, but it sure has all the footprints of it,” Kuprewicz told the Courier & Press. “The explosions can be of tremendous force.” Regulations typically require utility companies to inject enough odorant into natural gas for the average person to be able to smell a gas leak at a concentration roughly equivalent to 1% of the air inside a home. Explosions, McDonald said, typically occur at a 5% to 15% concentration.
CenterPoint’s responsibilities cover the external lines, he said, but state investigators will likely conduct a forensic analysis of pipes within the home to determine if an internal gas leak caused the explosion. While forensic science regarding gas leaks and explosions is a robust field, Kuprewicz said it can be difficult to determine who is at fault when a blast causes massive damage, which complicates efforts to pinpoint the exact cause.
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