Two days before the explosion they had taped a remote-controlled bomb underneath the car.

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Siberia time in the morning in June of the year 1908 high in the sky above the Forest in the remote wilderness of Tunguska Siberia heard an explosion that laid flat more than 800 square miles of the forest with all the trees pointing away from the center of the blast with most all the trees laying on their side.

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But Katmai blew up in a remote and little-populated area, while Tambora's explosion took place before the advent of undersea cables and international news agencies.

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