Yet even that explosion did not mean much.

Although it was never able to match the number of ships of the Royal Navy, it had technological advantages, such as better shells and propellant for much of the Great War, meaning that it never lost a ship to a catastrophic magazine explosion from an above-water attack, although the elderly pre-dreadnought Pommern sank rapidly at Jutland after a magazine explosion caused by an underwater attack.

Significant investigations conducted by the NTSB in all modes of transportation in recent years include the collapse of the I-35 highway bridge in Minneapolis, Minnesota ; the collision between two transit trains in Washington, D. C .; the pipeline explosion that destroyed much of a neighborhood in San Bruno, California ; the sinking of an amphibious vessel in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ; and the crash of a regional airliner near Buffalo, New York.

During the period, secular music had an increasing distribution, with a wide variety of forms, but one must be cautious about assuming an explosion in variety: since printing made music more widely available, much more has survived from this era than from the preceding Medieval era, and probably a rich store of popular music of the late Middle Ages is irretrievably lost.

The explosion expels much or all of a star's material at a velocity of up to ( 10 % of the speed of light ), driving a shock wave into the surrounding interstellar medium.

* Silicon transistors are much more vulnerable than vacuum tubes to an electromagnetic pulse generated by a high-altitude nuclear explosion.

In this environment, security was not nearly as much a concern as it became after the bandwidth explosion of the 1990s.

In either case, the resulting supernova explosion expels much or all of the stellar material with velocities as much as 10 % the speed of light, that is, about 30, 000 km / s.

A third example, a cross-over with the Swedish Chef, has the Swedish Chef open and cause a wine bottle " explosion " ( if a bottle is shaken too much before opening it for the first time, fizz will shoot up and out of the bottle ) and flies through the air, classified as a UFO by the Muppet Newsman.

In July 1962, a 1. 44 megaton ( 6. 0 PJ ) United States nuclear test in space, above the mid-Pacific Ocean, called the Starfish Prime test, demonstrated to nuclear scientists that the magnitude and effects of a high altitude nuclear explosion were much larger than had been previously calculated.

Because of the nature of the pulse as a large, high powered, noisy spike, it is doubtful that there would be much protection if the explosion were seen in the sky just below the tops of hills or mountains.

For high-altitude nuclear explosions, this means that much of the EMP is actually generated at a large distance from the detonation ( where the gamma radiation from the explosion hits the upper atmosphere ).

A nuclear weapon employs chemical-based explosives to initiate a much larger nuclear-based explosion.

Particularly challenging is the need to explain the very high efficiencies that are inferred from some explosions: some gamma-ray bursts may convert as much as half ( or more ) of the explosion energy into gamma-rays.

An unusual ( but telling ) example of the increase of Berlioz's fame in the 60s was an explosion of forged autographs, manuscripts, and letters, evidently created to cater for a much greater interest in the composer.

Sprague's motor and related inventions led to an explosion of interest and use in electric motors for industry, while almost simultaneously another great inventor was developing its primary competitor, which would become much more widespread.

On January 25, 2012, an ash explosion occurred on the mountain causing much dust and ash to contaminate the atmosphere around it.

A three-stage H-bomb uses a fission bomb primary to compress a thermonuclear secondary, as in most H-bombs, and then uses energy from the resulting explosion to compress a much larger additional thermonuclear stage.

In a few years, Eta Carinae produced almost as much visible light as a supernova explosion, but it survived.

A large ANFO explosion was detonated which caused much local complaint as described in Location, Location, Location.

The plant became part of Hercules Powder Company when DuPont assets were divided in 1912 under provisions of the Sherman Antitrust Act, and it closed permanently after a major explosion on January 14, 1913 destroyed much of the plant.

* January 9, 1883: explosion on the factory premises, resulting in 13 deaths and much damage to the factory and Muiden.

* January 17, 1947: explosion of collected grenades on the factory premises, 17 deaths and much damage in Muiden.

Mrs. Eleanor Kowalski, 42, died yesterday afternoon in Holy Cross Hospital of burns suffered in a fire that followed a bottled gas explosion Saturday night at the flat of her widowed mother, Mrs. Mary Pankowski, in the adjoining suburb of Warren.

Mrs. Pankowski, 61, remained in Holy Cross Hospital as a result of the explosion, which occurred while Mrs. Kowalski fueled a cook stove in the grandmother's small upstairs flat at 2274 Eight Mile Road East.

There have been cases of humans being contaminated with americium, the worst case being that of Harold McCluskey, who at the age of 64 was exposed to 500 times the occupational standard for americium-241 as a result of an explosion in his lab.

A broad public discussion of environmental problems began in the mid-1980s, when the first " green " groups formed in opposition to Yerevan's intense industrial air pollution and to nuclear power generation in the wake of the 1986 reactor explosion at Chernobyl '.

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

* 2010 – Twenty-nine coal miners are killed in an explosion at the Upper Big Branch Mine in West Virginia.

On 6 February 1890, an underground explosion at Llanerch Colliery killed 176.

As the “ tourist explosion ” took place in the 1960s, a number of researchers were looking for new standard symbols to be used at roads, stations, airports, etc.

In one such incident involving the 1972 explosion and sinking of the tanker, the Coast Guard photographed the wreck and recovered several bodies, in contrast with one Triangle author's claim that all the bodies had vanished, with the exception of the captain, who was found sitting in his cabin at his desk, clutching a coffee cup.

Primitive chordates are known from at least as early as the Cambrian explosion.

Graph theory also enjoyed an explosion of interest at the same time, especially in connection with the four color problem.

Furthermore, Cyprus was dealt a severe blow by the Evangelos Florakis Naval Base explosion in July 2011, with the cost to the economy estimated at € 1 – 3 billion, or up to 17 % of GDP.

* 1914 – A gas explosion at Mitsubishi Hojyo coal mine, Kyūshū, Japan, kills 687.

* 1907 – A coal mine explosion at Monongah, West Virginia kills 362 workers.

* 1910 – An underground explosion at the Hulton Bank Colliery No. 3 Pit in Over Hulton, Westhoughton, England, kills 344 miners.

* Heat — Sensitivity is expressed in terms of the temperature at which flashing or explosion of the material occurs.

* 1567 – Lord Darnley, second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, is found strangled following an explosion at the Kirk o ' Field house in Edinburgh, Scotland, a suspected assassination.

Switzerland built an extensive network of fallout shelters, not only through extra hardening of government buildings such as schools, but also through a building regulation that ensured that all residential building built after 1968 contained a nuclear shelter able to withstand a blast from a 50 megaton explosion at a distance of 700 metres.

The infrastructure, although continuing to grow and improve, at times appears to be lagging in relation to the population explosion.

These were partly caused by the explosion in population, but also to concentrate economic power at strategic locations, while formerly cities only existed in the shape of either old Roman foundations or older bishoprics.

Though the Internet has allowed the global explosion of collectively authored comedy, its precursors existed on bulletin boards, corporate messaging systems, and even through such low-tech mechanisms as the facsimile since at least the 1970s.

* 2010 – The South Kivu tank truck explosion in the Democratic Republic of the Congo kills at least 230 people.

* 1974 – Flixborough disaster: an explosion at a chemical plant kills 28 people.

* 2002 – An explosion at a military storage facility in Lagos, Nigeria, kills at least 1, 100 people and displaces over 20, 000 others.