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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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Seismologists 3,000 miles away in New Zealand calculated the blast's strength to have been around 5 on the Richter scale.
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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
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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
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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
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From the blast's intensity we determined that 12 to 14 kilograms of explosives were detonated.
The Investigator 2007
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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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