1.   The explosion caused irreparable damage to several buildings.

2.   The explosion caused little structural damage to the office towers themselves.

3.   For the most part the explosions caused few casualties and little material damage, but were effective in fostering an impression of insecurity.

4.   As a result, experts say, it would have taken a far bigger bomb to destroy the TWA plane, and that explosion might cause a different sound.

5.   A surface explosion causes dirt and debris from the ground to get mixed with the radiation.

6.   Francis was careful not to say that an explosion caused the crash.

7.   It is also the largest fuel depot in the nation, so any explosion would cause widespread destruction.

8.   Just a few feet away, the explosion had caused sections of all nine floors to collapse by blowing out many of the supports.

9.   Now some astronomers think they have identified a new class of mysterious and powerful gamma-ray bursts possibly caused by explosions of extremely massive stars called supernovas.

10.   Nobody was injured, although the explosions caused several thousand dollars of damage, police said.