Many feared dead in US fertilizer plant blast
A Texas fertilizer factory exploded in a huge
fireball Wednesday, flattening nearby homes and perhaps killing as
many as several dozen people, with one official likening the blast
to a “nuclear bomb.”
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Sun unleashes biggest solar flare of the year
The most powerful solar flare of the year
erupted from the sun on April 11 sparking a temporary radio blackout
on Earth, NASA officials say. The solar flare occurred at 3:16 a.m.
EDT (0716 GMT) and registered as a M6.5-class sun storm,
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India jolted by shifting tectonic plates
Tremors from the large magnitude earthquake
which struck south-eastern Iran were felt in parts of north and
north-western India because it was a deep earthquake, and not a
shallow one, with the hypocentre estimated to be about 82 km. (Hypocentre
is the position below the surface of the earth where the built-up
strain energy in the rocks is first released and the fault begins to
rupture.
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