debris field
Zone of fragments
A debris field is an area where wreckage or scattered remains are distributed, typically after an explosion, crash, or violent event.
The term appears most often in discussions of aircraft disasters, spacecraft breakups, or shipwrecks: Investigators mapped the debris field across three square miles of ocean floor.
The pattern of scatter often helps determine what happened.
- wreckageDestroyed remains of something
- rubbleBroken building fragments
- shrapnelScattered explosion fragments
- flotsamDebris from wrecked vessels
- crash siteLocation of impact
scattered remains · plane crash · fragments · jetsam · remnants · scatter · blast radius · ground zero · point of impact · shockwave · disaster recovery · splinters · structural failure · satellite imaging · orbital decay · flight recorder · spillage · ruins
- TitanicTitanic, RMS Titanic, iceberg, sinking, lifeboats
- Tornadoestornado, twister, funnel cloud, funnel, vortex
- dump siteslandfill, junkyard, garbage dump, trash heap, rubbish pile
- rocky terraincliffs, boulders, scree, outcrops, rockfall
- wreckagewreckage, rubble, remains, remnants, fragments
- Crash InvestigationsNTSB, crash investigation, crash site, crash scene, black box
debris fieldoriginal form
debris fieldempty space
Area devoid of contents
grid pattern · open field · void · vacuum
field, debris, battlefield, fielder, airfield, fielded, fielding, minefield, fieldwork