* 1944 – Bombay Explosion: A massive explosion in Bombay harbor kills 300 and causes economic damage valued then at 20 million pounds.

At 22: 00 the fire reached the magazines and the Orient was almost completely destroyed by a massive explosion.

One person scavenging the oil drops a lit cigarette, creating a massive explosion which kills 120.

* 1979 – A 106-car Canadian Pacific freight train carrying explosive and poisonous chemicals from Windsor, Ontario, Canada derails in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada just west of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, causing a massive explosion and the largest peacetime evacuation in Canadian history and one of the largest in North American history.

The core of an aging massive star may undergo sudden gravitational collapse, releasing gravitational potential energy that can create a supernova explosion.

* June 28 – An explosion in the Newton Coal Company's Twin Shaft Mine in Pittston City, Pennsylvania results in a massive cave-in that killed 58 miners.

The resulting fire ignites 200, 000 lb ( 90, 000 kg ) of gunpowder being stored there, causing a massive explosion which destroys 1 / 6 of the city and kills 3, 000 people.

There are two possible routes to a supernova: either a massive star may run out of fuel, ceasing to generate fusion energy in its core, and collapsing inward under the force of its own gravity to form a neutron star or a black hole ; or a white dwarf star may accumulate ( accrete ) material from a companion star until it reaches a critical mass and undergoes a thermonuclear explosion.

Stars more massive than 8 solar masses ( M < sub >⊙</ sub >) will likely end their lives in a dramatic supernova explosion.

Her attacks include the Peach Bomber ( where she leaps forward, twirls and rams her hip into her opponent which causes an explosion ); her forward grab ( a massive slap that kills players at higher percentages ); her parasol ; using Toad as a human shield ; using golf clubs, tennis rackets, and frying pans as melee weapons ; and pulling turnips from the ground.

In the so-called Type Ia supernovae, gases falling onto a white dwarf raise its mass until it nears a critical level, the Chandrasekhar limit, resulting in an explosion ; in Type Ib / c and Type II supernovae, the progenitor star is a massive star which runs out of fuel to power its nuclear fusion reactions and collapses in on itself, reaching such phenomenal temperatures that it explodes.

When The Pattern and The Logrus came in direct conflict a massive explosion destroyed part of the palace in Amber.

* A massive explosion in Jalalabad at the maintenance facility of the Afghan Construction and Logistics Unit, a private construction company, kills at least 10 and injures 25, damaging 50 homes and a hydroelectric dam.

The massive demonstration was peaceful at first, but violence broke out and a powerful explosion led to the death of six people.

During the actual attack, the fatal bomb caused a massive explosion about seven seconds after penetrating the deck, making it virtually impossible for a crewman to see the bomb within the ship or say anything.

On the evening of July 17, 1944 a massive explosion instantly killed 320 sailors, merchant seamen and civilians working at the pier.

It was the site of the 1924 Nixon Nitration Works disaster, a massive explosion and resulting fire that killed 20 persons and destroyed several square miles of the Township.

On February 2, 1998, a massive explosion occurred at the York International plant.

By about the 15th century BC a massive volcanic explosion known as the Minoan eruption blew the island of Thera apart, casting more than four times the amount of ejecta as the explosion of Krakatoa and generating a tsunami in the enclosed Aegean that threw pumice up to 250 meters above sea level onto the slopes of Anaphi, 27 km to the east.

The arsenal caused massive local protests, and the municipal council made a declaration where it supported the concerns raised about the danger of an explosion.

When core collapse occurs in a sufficiently massive star, the explosion energy is insufficient to expel the outer layers of the star and it will collapse into a black hole without producing a visible supernova outburst.

Dutch barely escapes the massive explosion and is later rescued by helicopter along with Anna.

However by the late 1990s, the Bollywood connection and the massive media and IT explosion that occurred in India in its post-Doordarshan late 1990s has had a hegemonic influence in Sri Lanka ’ s own fashion outlook.

Prefaced by wild emissions of an unknown form of magnetic radiation, the accumulated waste reaches critical mass and, on 13 September 1999, detonates in a massive thermonuclear explosion.

* 1806 – A massive landslide destroys the town of Goldau, Switzerland, killing 457.

Heading for the capital of Luoyang, his massive and undisciplined army ( 360, 000 men ), burns and destroys government offices and outposts.

* A massive fire in Edinburgh's Old Town destroys part of the pioneering Informatics department of the University, as well as a major venue for the Edinburgh Fringe.

However, Zedd pursues them across the galaxy in Serpentera, his massive personal Zord, which destroys most of the Deserted Planet.

The tornado destroys the shed and Jo and Bill find themselves sucked into the vortex of the massive funnel and they find another tornado that looks like an F1 tornado before it dissipated.

Upon his return, Jack faces almost all of his foes in a massive battle that nearly destroys Opal City.

As the Zentraedi fleet prepares to fire again, The Alaska base, which survived the initial attack, fires the massive Grand Cannon which destroys a large portion of the Zentraedi Grand Fleet.

Guests then entered a screening room, where they watched a brief film that depicted a massive earthquake that destroys Los Angeles.

He destroys Fifth's Replicator ship as it exits hyperspace, but cannot stop massive numbers of Replicator blocks from raining down on Orilla.

Suddenly a massive crack appears at a beach near Venice, runs through Los Angeles, collapses the downtown skyline, destroys the Hollywood sign, and continues inland with the ocean pouring inside.

"), resulting in a massive detonation that destroys them both.

He takes the Nucleus to a distant land, where he destroys it in a massive nuclear detonation.

* The Ideon Gun ( a. k. a. the Wave Leader Cannon ), a massive blue cannon directly powered by the Ideon's Ide energy to produce an enormous white wave of energy which destroys literally anything in its path in a forty five-degree angle, including star ships and planets.

Once the Dude destroys it, he leaves Paradise in his car with his dog and his trailer while Paradise explodes due to a massive nuclear warhead he " borrowed " to destroy a rival video game development and publishing company whose name is obscured by black bars ( If you remove the black bars in the UnrealEd, the name of the company is revealed to be " Bullfish Interactive ").

Omega sprouts wings and tries to escape, but Vincent charges at it, creating a massive explosion which destroys Omega, whilst Vincent disappears.

Realizing the reactor is going to overload, he speeds away on his bike as a concealed detonator triggers a massive hydrogen explosion that destroys the lab and surrounding streets.

As foretold by a prophecy, when Armageddon's Blade and the Sword of Frost clash in battle, the result is a massive explosion ( known as the Reckoning ), which destroys the world of Enroth.

As they are rescued, massive power feedback from the sabotaged machine destroys the Sea Devil colony before the military attack can begin.

Jack just barely manages to escape as a propane tank causes a massive explosion and destroys the home.

His small, ironic role in the novel represents both the triumph and ultimate failure of west coast liberalism of the late Cold War era: when faced with a massive ecological crisis that threatens ( and indeed ultimately destroys ) the nation, Brown's solution is to build a large youth center, a twice-life-size fiberglass replica of the Taj Mahal, and then abandons the country so he can devote himself to self-improvement.

Meyers battles Caruzzo's elite soldiers and destroys the Black Tower antenna, causing a massive explosion that destroys the volcano and Caruzzo along with it.

* The Big One: The Great Los Angeles Earthquake, a 1990 made-for-television movie starring Joanna Kerns, depicting a massive earthquake that destroys Los Angeles, California