Forty-nine hours after an atomic burst the radiation intensity is only about 1 percent of what it was an hour after the explosion.

The most infamous of all was launched by the explosion of the island of Krakatoa in 1883 ; ;

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.

On 11 September 1878 it was the site of an underground explosion which killed 268 coal miners.

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

For ten minutes after the explosion there was no firing ; sailors from both sides were either too shocked by the blast or desperately extinguishing fires aboard their own ships to continue the fight.

It was during one of these latter engagements that Captain Miller of Theseus was killed in an ammunition explosion.

It is likely that these were part of the treasure taken from Malta that was lost in the explosion aboard Orient.

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.

In 1927, the Belgian Roman Catholic priest Georges Lemaître independently derived the Friedmann-Lemaître-Robertson-Walker equations and proposed, on the basis of the recession of spiral nebulae, that the universe began with the " explosion " of a " primeval atom "— which was later called the Big Bang.

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.

One way to potentially explain the problem of the Champagne Supernova was considering it the result of an aspherical explosion of a white dwarf.

At the beginning of the 20th century, there was an explosion of innovation in dance style characterized by an exploration of freer technique.

The center span of the original bridge was demolished in a controlled explosion in September 1984.

Artist Carel Fabritius was wounded in the explosion and died of his injuries.

The explosion was big enough to deform the door and blow it off its hinges.

One theory is that this was caused by a design fault in the ammunition loading system to the main gun turrets, so that an enemy hit on the turret set off an explosion in the magazine, thus sinking the ship.

Two people died in the explosion, forty people were injured and an estimated £ 150m of damage was caused.

Einsteinium was discovered as the debris of the first hydrogen bomb explosion in 1952, and named after Albert Einstein.

The Dowager Lady Brabourne, his elder daughter's 83-year-old mother-in-law, was seriously injured in the explosion and died from her injuries the following day.

It was discovered in the debris of the first hydrogen bomb explosion in 1952, and named after Nobel laureate Enrico Fermi, one of the pioneers of nuclear physics.

Bomp was not alone ; an August 1970 issue of Rolling Stone included an article about the explosion of rock fanzines.

This killed Dutch freelance photographer Fernando Pereira, who thought it was safe to enter the boat to get his photographic material after a first small explosion, but drowned as a result of a second, larger explosion.

In 1815, aware of the explosions often caused in mines by naked flames, Stephenson began to experiment with a safety lamp that would burn without causing an 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.

By crushing the aspirations of humans for over three thousand years, Leto caused the Scattering, an explosion of humanity into the rest of the universe upon his death.

An explosion midflight over the Sahara Desert in Niger caused the aircraft to break up, killing all 156 passengers and 15 crew members, including the U. S. Ambassador to Chad Robert Pugh.

The crew of the Apollo 13 mission survived despite an explosion caused by a faulty oxygen tank ( 1970 ); the crews of Soyuz 11 ( 1971 ), the Space Shuttles Challenger ( 1986 ) and Columbia ( 2003 ) were killed by malfunctions of their vessels ' components.

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.

The explosion caused considerable damage to the ship's computer and electronic equipment.

This may be caused by the explosion of a helium shell on a white dwarf.

The explosion was estimated to have caused at least $ 652 million worth of damage.

When the Romulans examined the wreckage, they discovered the recordings ; assuming the incriminating defects to have been caused by the explosion, the Romulan Star Empire entered the war against the Dominion, joining the Klingon-Federation alliance.

The nation's recognition of the Bears ' accomplishment was overshadowed by the explosion of the Challenger two days later, an event which caused the cancellation of the Bears ' post-Super Bowl White House visit ; the surviving members of the team eventually would be invited to the White House in 2011.

The explosion, having the epicenter ( 60. 886 ° N, 101. 894 ° E ), is believed to have been caused by the air burst of a large meteoroid or comet fragment at an altitude of above the Earth's surface.

In 1921, the Russian mineralogist Leonid Kulik, visiting the Podkamennaya Tunguska River basin as part of a survey for the Soviet Academy of Sciences, deduced from local accounts that the explosion had been caused by a giant meteorite impact.

The explosion caused more than US $ 2 million in damage and killed at least 43 people.

A steam explosion occurred when the extreme overheating of the core caused water to flash into steam.

* 23 May 1992 – Able to a violent explosion on Autostrada A29 ( Italy ) section between the ' Punta Raisi Airport and Palermo, caused by the Mafia, causing the death of Judge Giovanni Falcone, a hero in the fight against organized crime.

The results of that missile's explosion are the instant blinding of those who see the explosion, the resultant firestorm caused by the heat wave, and the blast front ; later, the collapse of society, because of radiation sickness, psychological damage, and destroyed infrastructure ; the British Army burns corpses, while police shoot looters during food riots.

* A pyroclastic flow is caused by a collapsing cloud of hot ash, gas and rocks from a volcanic explosion that moves rapidly down an erupting volcano.

# Avoid an " explosion of classes " that would be caused by subclassing for " every possible combination of embellishments " and elements ( p44 )

It is implied that the pandemic was caused by a war, and that it was spread by dust storms in the cities and an explosion in the mosquito population.

A thermal wave is created by the sudden release of heat caused by an explosion.