That was the day in World War II when a fire aboard an ammunition ship in New York Harbor threatened to cause a gigantic explosion that could have cost thousands of lives and destroyed swaths of Lower Manhattan, Brooklyn, Staten Island and the New Jersey ports of Jersey City and Bayonne.
The white Ford Bronco chase, being covered by all of the television networks in real time, was a gigantic explosion within a story that people were already covering.
Standing on a rim inside the darkened lower hemisphere, the audience looks down and hears the voice of Jodie Foster say that the universe began with a gigantic explosion.
One missile hit a building with a gigantic explosion only a few hundred yards from the Palestine Hotel on the east bank of the Tigris, where about 150 foreign journalists are staying.
Pinatubo, Luzon, Philippines 4,875 1,486 1991 A gigantic explosion in 1991 may have produced more ash and smoke than any other volcanic eruption of the 20th century.
The flare's pattern--an intense spike of energy and a fading afterglow--leads researchers to suspect that they caught a miniature gamma ray burst (GRB), a gigantic explosion that astronomers usually see in very distant galaxies.
Others have mentioned a series of upcoming anniversaries, meetings, and events that Kim John-un might choose to commemorate with a gigantic explosion.
The gigantic explosion of biological sequence databases leads to an urgent need for accelerating these computations.
Katmai, Alaska, U.S. 6,716 2,047 1912 The summit of this volcano collapsed in 1912 following the gigantic explosion of nearby Novarupta Volcano--the largest eruption recorded in the 20th century.
