The Pentagon affirmed that the explosion was as strong as the earthquake next to Gerald R. Ford was unrelated to the Florida state collapse.

I don't see any connection between the trial trial with tragic events in South Florida.

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The US Navy on June 18 conducted a comprehensive shock test (FSST) with the latest USS Gerald R. Ford carrier in the payroll.

Only 6 days later, the 12-storey Champlain Tower Tower suddenly collapsed, raised a lot of speeches on social networks that this accident was a result of a strong explosion near Gerald Ford Carrier.

Local 10 TV channel in Miami has received a lot of audience messages asking about this issue.

However, the American Naval spokesman Clay Doss confirmed that the test took place from the coast of Jacksonville, Florida, about 160 km and more than 400 km from the apartment building.

Paul Earle, seismic house at the National Earthquake Information Center under USGS, said that the scale of explosion, distance to the collapsed venue and nearly a week between two events shows they don't have

There is no mechanism in the Navy's explosion on June 18, enough to knock down the apartment on June 24.

The FSST test ended the testing phase after handing over with USS Gerald R. Ford before the US Navy first put it into use.

Rescue workers seek victims in the rubble of the apartment building on June 26.

Champlain Towers South in Surfside Town, Florida, collapsed on June 24.

It is unclear what causes the collapsed collapse of the apartment building against decades, but the building has shown signs of subsidence in the 1990s.