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JERUSALEM (Reuters) – The explosion of the port of Beirut was preceded by a series of explosions, the last of which was a burning of fireworks that apparently set a warehouse full of ammonium nitrate, an Israeli seismological and ammunition expert said on Thursday. Boaz Hayoun, of the Tamar Group …

For years, scientists have been trying to track down an extremely rare “boomerang” earthquake. Well, they’d taken one into the ocean for the first time – and it’s even more bizarre than they expected. Earthquakes are the result of rocks breaking on a fault, which is a boundary between two …