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  2. Halifax Explosion - Wikipedia

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    Approximately 20 minutes later at 9:04:35 am, Mont-Blanc exploded. Nearly all structures within an 800-metre (half-mile) radius, including the community of Richmond, were obliterated. [ 3 ] A pressure wave snapped trees, bent iron rails, demolished buildings, grounded vessels (including Imo , which was washed ashore by the ensuing tsunami ...

  3. Time bomb - Wikipedia

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    A time bomb's timing mechanism may be professionally manufactured either separately or as part of the device, or it may be improvised from an ordinary household timer such as a wind-up alarm clock, wrist watch, digital kitchen timer, or notebook computer. The timer can be programmed to count up or count down (usually the latter; as the bomb ...

  4. List of explosions - Wikipedia

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    The disaster was the largest man-made explosion of the time and caused extensive damage to Richmond, Dartmouth, and the Miꞌkmaq neighborhood of Tufts Cove. 4-6 December 1918 United States: Sayreville, New Jersey ~100 100+ T. A. Gillespie Company Shell Loading Plant explosion – Munitions explosion at an ammunition plant in New Jersey

  5. List of tank truck explosions - Wikipedia

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    The explosion occurred at 8:30 am EAT, 20 minutes after a fuel tanker overturned while trying to avoid colliding with a motorcyclist. [124] The crash happened near Msamvu Bus Terminal. [125] The road on which the crash occurred connects Morogoro to the financial capital Dar es Salaam and is heavily used. [124]

  6. Daallo Airlines Flight 159 - Wikipedia

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    Daallo Airlines Flight 159 was a scheduled international passenger flight operated by Somali-owned Daallo Airlines.On 2 February 2016, an explosion occurred on board the aircraft 20 minutes after it took off from Mogadishu.

  7. Washington DC explosions – latest: Nation’s capital on edge ...

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    The attacks. 11:00, Rachel Sharp. The series of attacks all took place within a 15-minute period in the early hours of Sunday morning – a time when the streets of the city were deserted.

  8. LAPD investigates scores of bomb threats a year. Was ... - AOL

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    LAPD records show the department has investigated scores of bomb threats at government offices, schools and sports arenas, including at least 144 cases in which police found an explosive device.

  9. Pencil detonator - Wikipedia

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    The briefcase bomb used in the July 20 plot used a captured British pencil detonator inserted into a block of British plastic explosives weighing approximately two pounds. The bomb was set to 30 minutes and detonated as planned, but Hitler survived with minor injuries. Stauffenberg could not prepare the second block, though. He got rid of it ...