A large tidal wave, triggered by a distant explosion, threatens to drown the island of Atlantis.
There, 170,000 light-years from here, near a star cluster known as NGC 2074, glowing but not twinkling in the upper left corner of this picture taken by Hubble's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2, clouds are condensing in what the astronomers called in a press release "a firestorm of raw stellar creation," perhaps triggered by a recent supernova explosion.
There was violent opposition to the new regime, however, and during a meeting at IRP headquarters, Beheshti and a number of other party officials were killed in an explosion allegedly triggered by an antigovernment group, the Mojāhedīn-e Khalq (Persian: "People's Fighters").
It was thought the rockslide was triggered by an earthquake, volcanic eruption or explosion within the mine.
Federal officials said the 2010 explosion was triggered by an electrical problem at a control center in Milpitas, 40 miles from San Bruno, that caused valves that regulate pipeline pressure to open.
Officials said the explosion was triggered by an electrical problem at a control center in Milpitas, about 40 miles from the San Bruno blast site, that caused the valves that regulate pipeline pressure to open, allowing more gas into the line.
A man has died after an explosion believed to have been triggered by an electronic cigarette being charged, said Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service.
Seconds before the explosion, an alert was triggered by an American spy satellite designed to watch for the bright flash of a Russian missile launch.
Each trial was triggered by an experimenter.
For the last 10 million to 20 million years NGC 1569 has been undergoing a burst of star formation and supernova explosions, perhaps triggered by a collision with a massive gas cloud.
