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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.

If the last three sonatas are about reflection and the different kinds of poetic resolution a composer can achieve, this work deals unashamedly in confrontation, generating tensions that can't be resolved in any other way than in the gigantic explosion of the final fugue, whose deliberately clashing sonorities and raw-edged piano sound create a music that it is impossible to prettify.

Entrails were lastly added inside the suit, as Nicotero asserted that his team wanted "a gigantic explosion of gore".

For all we know, their most recent underground experiment wasn't a nuclear test, but a gigantic explosion of nothing more threatening than gunpowder.

The gigantic explosion of biological sequence databases leads to an urgent need for accelerating these computations.

Here, sometimes with the characters quite literally in the dark, the authors chew the cud of Existenz — trying to digest mortality, change, failed potential, friendship, love, the passing of time, and, unless I'm a Dutchman and the gigantic explosion that singes the faces of the oldsters toward the end is a red herring, some kind of nuclear incident.

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.