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  • One of those beams was pointed directly at Earth, which has an atmosphere that shields it from the blast's effects, but where it was detected by the Swift satellite.

    Rare cosmic blast traced to black hole 2011

  • In the blast's immediate aftermath, 31 plant operators and firemen died – they were not told the reactor was the cause of the blaze or that radiation levels were lethal – while thousands more people, living on land that is now in Ukraine and Belarus, received doses that undoubtedly shortened their lives, although scientists still dispute the death toll.

    Chernobyl 25 years on: a poisoned landscape 2011

  • One of those beams was pointed directly at Earth, which has an atmosphere that shields it from the blast's effects, but where it was detected by the Swift satellite.

    Rare cosmic blast traced to black hole 2011

  • Witnesses said that the first explosion was heard at 07: 40 AM coming from the JW Marriott, and two minutes after a second explosion ripped a restaurant of the Ritz Carlton Hotel, located about 500 meters from the first blast's point, filled with people who are attending breakfast meetings.

    Global Voices in English » Bombings kill nine in Indonesia 2009

  • Seismologists 3,000 miles away in New Zealand calculated the blast's strength to have been around 5 on the Richter scale.

    France Blows It Again 2008

  • But by some violent caprice, a calling card was left at the blast's perimeter-the partial truck chassis.

    A Break In The Blast 2008

  • The coalition did not release any other details, including the nationalities of the troops or the blast's location.

    Archive 2008-09-01 CC 2008

  • Noting a minute decrease in helpless cries for mercy, Petraeus added that the blast's aftermath was "not even close" to being as grisly as it could have been.

    IN IRAQ / SUCCESS IS RELATIVE AND FAILURE IS ALWAYS AVOIDED 2007

  • From the blast's intensity we determined that 12 to 14 kilograms of explosives were detonated.

    The Investigator 2007

  • Noting a minute decrease in helpless cries for mercy, Petraeus added that the blast's aftermath was "not even close" to being as grisly as it could have been.

    Satire: Not-So-Horrible Thing Happens In Iraq William Harryman 2007

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