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...pillar of bright flame. In its glare, the 200 families in the trailers, little more than a B-29's length away, stumbled out of their homes and back into the darkness. Then, while seven fire trucks pumped Foamite into the flames, the bombs went off, blasting a crater as big as a bungalow. Bodies were blown back across the field, the fire trucks rolled up like the tops of sardine cans, the trailers and their little picket fences were smashed, as one witness put it, "like a giant had stepped on them...
This week Dr. Meen returned from a quick air visit to the lake and reported that it was almost certainly a meteorite crater (there was no lava or other sign of volcanic activity), and the biggest yet discovered. The lake in the crater (still frozen at the end of July) is 2½ miles across, compared with Arizona's famed meteorite crater, which is four-fifths of a mile across. Its level is about 80 feet above that of other small lakes in the vicinity, and around it is a ring of shattered granite that rises 550 feet above...
...might prove to be the peculiar stony material of which some meteorites are made. But there was plenty of other evidence that some enormous body had buried itself in the earth: shattered blocks of stone from football to freight-car size, and concentric circles in the granite around the crater, like ripples stirred up by a pebble dropped into still water...
...area, Korea is washed on three sides by salt water-the Japan Sea, the Korea Strait, and the Yellow Sea (see map). It can be said to begin with a mountain, the far northern peak of Paektu (White Head), coated with glistening pumice and sheltering in its ancient crater the deep Dragon Prince's Pool...
Hawii's vast Mauna Loa erupts about once every three years, but this time was different. At 9:20 p.m., clouds over the 13,675-ft. peak parted to uncover a glow seen 200 miles away. Not from the crater, where it usually erupts, but out of the southwest flank of the mountain melted rock burst and shot 300 ft. up; steam shot higher to 20,000 ft., striking a passing plane. Through two other vents in the slope, streams of glowing lava oozed out, surged 25 miles...