All buildings in the village of Severny (both wooden and brick), located from ground zero within the Sukhoy Nos test range, were destroyed. In districts hundreds of kilometres from ground zero, wooden houses were destroyed, stone ones lost their roofs, windows, and doors, and radio communications were interrupted for almost one hour. One participant in the test saw a bright flash through dark goggles and felt the effects of a thermal pulse even at a distance of . The heat from the explosion could have caused third-degree burns away from ground zero. A shock wave was observed in the air at Dikson settlement away; windowpanes were partially broken for distances up to . Atmospheric focusing caused blast damage at even greater distances, breaking windows in Norway and Finland. Despite being detonated above ground, its seismic body wave magnitude was estimated at 5.0–5.25.