Word: crater
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...heavily against investigators finding anything so decisive so soon. Telltale clues presumably lay at ground zero, the spot where the giant bomb had gone off in the parking garage under Manhattan's World Trade Center towers. And ground zero was buried at the bottom of a seven-story-deep crater, hidden under rubble and surrounded by beams that would have to be strengthened to prevent their collapsing on top of overeager probers...
...were also unsure about the exact motives, identity and whereabouts of the actual bombmaker and the driver or drivers who wheeled the explosive-filled van into the garage. (It is entirely possible that pieces of his or their bodies lie amid the other wreckage at the bottom of the crater.) Even so, the incomplete tale was already the most fascinating real-life detective story in years...
...bomb blew out a crater 200 ft. by 100 ft. wide and five stories deep. Floors collapsed onto one another with an impact that caused the ceiling of the PATH station nearby to come crashing down, showering chunks of concrete onto commuters waiting on the platform. In the same moment, the 110-story Twin Towers swayed visibly as the force of the blast shuddered upward. Lobby windows exploded onto the plaza and marble slabs fell from the walls. As fractured steam pipes launched jets of hot mist into the air, the first victims stumbled out of the buildings, bloodied...
...Trade Center plaza and which were supported in turn by the garage floors that were ripped away in the blast. Before investigators can safely enter the blast site, workers must buttress the dangerous sagging remnants of the garage and lay a web of tubular steel beams across the crater left by the bomb. It may be days before investigators can begin to sift through the tons of debris for clues to the bomber...
...chemical residue, which will help in determining what kind of explosive was used. In car bombings, bits of explosive matter are often found in the nooks and crannies of what is left of the auto's trunk lid. Nitrate, traces of which were found in the Trade Center crater, is the most basic component of most explosive mixtures. The next step is to find traces of chemicals that may be unique to a certain compound, like potassium or ammonium, which would identify the explosive far more precisely...