The scientists have also warned that no life above ground or underground, sheltered or unsheltered could be expected to survive in an area at least 50 miles in diameter.

Metro rail or rapid transit usually covers a smaller inner-urban area ranging outwards to between 12 km to 20 km ( or 8 to 14 miles ), has a higher train frequency and runs on separate tracks ( underground or elevated ), whereas commuter rail often shares tracks, technology and the legal framework with mainline railway.

* Corsham Computer Centre, an underground British government installation near RAF Corsham and RAF Rudloe Manor in the heavily-tunneled Corsham area of Wiltshire

The Johnston Atoll area was used during the 1950s and 1960s as an American nuclear weapons test site — for both above-ground and underground nuclear tests.

Openings in the rock increase in size, and an underground drainage system begins to develop, allowing more water to pass through the area, and accelerating the formation of underground karst features.

Ironically it was preparations for this concert, rather than historical interest, that brought about the first detailed post-Cold War survey of the area with a view to determining what, if anything, was left of Hitler's bunker and any other underground installations.

The Super-K is located underground in the Mozumi Mine in Hida's Kamioka area.

* Seven Sisters, London, an area and road in England with a railway and underground station of that name

During this time, the ANC was banned and Mbeki was involved in underground activities in the Pretoria-Witwatersrand area.

The desert area of Abu Dhabi includes two important oases with adequate underground water for permanent settlements and cultivation.

Though the area is still volcanically active, the caldera itself is extinct: seismic mapping has shown the magma body deep underground is mostly crystallized and not molten anymore.

One important area of robotics research is to enable the robot to cope with its environment whether this be on land, underwater, in the air, underground, or in space.

The new main entrance is a structure detached from the main museum building, through which visitors descend into an underground area and re-ascend into the main building, similar to the Louvre Pyramid.

Overall, though, the political sensibilities of the label can be said to be left-wing, feminist, and anti-war, and the label initially showed a commitment towards underground punk bands and to representing artists in the Olympia, Washington area.

At this time, the underground was far smaller than at present, and so the playing area also was more restricted, primarily due to plague.

In 2006 and 2007, the area surrounding the railway station was completely renovated: a new bus terminal and an underground bicycle parking lot were constructed, and the main road leading from the railway station to the city centre was turned into a road for pedestrians and cyclists only.

The project began with the building of giant underground vaults upon which the temple would be built so it could be larger than the small flat area on top of Mount Moriah.

It is named for a large central wholesale marketplace which was demolished in 1971 and replaced with an underground modern shopping precinct, the Forum des Halles, whose open air center area is below street level, like a sunken garden, and contains sculptures, fountains, and mosaics.

Verni, Bobby Gustafson and Bobby Blitz, released the Power In Black demo, a recording that made as much impact in the underground tape trading circuit as demos by up-and-coming Bay area thrash bands like Exodus and Testament.

Older concepts, such as a role-playing game-like system which made real-time changes to rooms and an underground cave area located under the mansion, were also scrapped with the inclusion of the new ideas.

Historically a part of Surrey, the area takes its name from the old village of Battersea, an island settlement established in the river delta of the Falconbrook ; a river that rises in Tooting Bec Common and flows underground through south London to the River Thames.

Kentish Town was originally a settlement along the River Fleet which flowed through the area, and today runs underground.

They also connect the area to nearby underground stations at Highgate, Bounds Green, East Finchley, Finsbury Park and Turnpike Lane and to train services at Alexandra Palace and Hornsey.

It also made international headlines in 1992 with the unexplained " Hueytown Hum ", a mysterious noise believed to be related to large ventilation fans for an underground coal mine in the area.

It incorporates the oldest section of underground railway in the world, which opened in 1863 and now forms part of the Circle, Hammersmith & City, and Metropolitan lines ; and the first line to operate electric trains, in 1890, now part of the Northern line.

The railway is now totally underground within Monegasque territory, and no trains can be seen at ground level within the nation.

The factory even had an underground plant for filling munitions, which were then stored at Krappitz ( now Krapkowice ) in Upper Silesia.

Other tributaries of the Warta within Poznań are the Junikowo Stream ( Strumień Junikowski ), which flows through southern Poznań from the west, meeting the Warta just outside the city boundary in Luboń ; the Bogdanka and Wierzbak, formerly two separate tributaries flowing from the north-west and along the north side of the city centre, now with their lower sections diverted underground ; the Główna, flowing through the neighbourhood of the same name in north-east Poznań ; and the Rose Stream ( Strumień Różany ) flowing east from Morasko in the north of the city.

In Armageddon, the Martian colonists now reside underground following the destruction of the machine responsible for terraforming Mars.

That means that anything left of Jamestown would now be underground.

What is now a single network of lines controlled by a single organisation began as a collection of independent underground railway companies that constructed lines in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

* UMIST is on land which used to be home to a large number of dyers ' factories by the River Medlock, which now runs through underground culverts beneath the site.

While an " underground railroad " running south toward Florida, then a Spanish possession, existed from the late 17th century until shortly after the American Revolution, the network now generally known as the Underground Railroad was formed in the early 19th century, and reached its height between 1850 and 1860.

Within the context of the Dungeons & Dragons game, the drow were forced underground in what is now known as the Underdark after the great war amongst the elves, a vast system of caverns and tunnels spanning much of the continent.

However, it is not reasonable to accept that the whole country was burned down at a time as a result of such an event rather than as a result of a fire bursting from underground whose source has now died out.

The ending concludes with Creator, 20 years into the future, having secluded itself inside an underground facility on Earth, now brimming with life again, creating a clone of Buster and Reana, from their strands of hair, the thing that he asked from both of them.

The first deep level London ' tube ' underground line was ' The City and South London Railway ', now the City Branch of the Northern Line, opened in 1890, running from King William Street through Borough to Stockwell.

" Earlier the deputy mayors were on the castle of the Counts of Hainaut, and now it is only the conciergerier, Saint-Calixte chapel and some underground rooms and the chamber.

The East side of the Kremlin triangle, lying adjacent to the Red Square and situated between the rivers Moskva and the now underground Neglinnaya River was deemed the most vulnerable side of the Kremlin to attack, since it was neither protected by the rivers, nor any other natural barriers, as the other sides were.

But now they have bowed to residents ' demands for underground parking.

Furthermore, he promoted the theory of gradual climate change over centuries of time once ancient petrified bamboos were found to be preserved underground in the dry, northern climate zone of Yanzhou, which is now modern day Yan ' an, Shaanxi province.

Likewise, the rumblings of Typhon emitted from deepest Tartarus could be clearly heard within the underground torrent near Seleuceia, now in Turkey, until his presence was neutralized by the building of a Byzantine church nearby.

" At what is now known as Oil Creek, Butler County resident William Smith and Edwin Drake first proved that oil could be tapped from underground for consistent supply.

The distinctive building is now occupied underground by a massage shop and on ground level by a ' Cash Converters ' pawn shop at the corner of Kentish Town Road and Castle Road.

From the 1850s it was piped underground and is now one of London's many underground rivers.

It was named after a crossing of the River Westbourne, which is now an underground river.

The reasons for this were probably the vulnerability of the plain around the church to flooding ( the River Fleet, which is now underground, runs through it ) and the availability of better wells at Kentish Town, where there is less clay in the soil.