Would decompression cause a moon habitat to explode?

Assume I have a human colony on The Moon. A meteor fragment gets by the defense system and smashes into a portion of the dome, let's say the hole is 1 meter in diameter, it's big.

Safety measures come into play and the section is sealed off. So only the one section is experiencing decompression. But the hole is large, so air is escaping fast.

Two questions.

1) Would the rush of air further damage the hole, assuming reasonable precautions against this were made? Whether it's multiple layers or whatever.

2) The main question though - would this incident ever cause the habitat section to explode?

I am writing a novella where there is a ticking time element. Certainly part of this is that the air is going for the people there. It would be nice to have the extra dram of further structural damage/danger imminent from the hole - but I don't want to introduce that if that really wouldn't happen.

posted almost 5 years ago

MajorTom‭

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