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Published online 30 May 2002 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news020527-8
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Seismologists turn snoops
Tremors unearth terrorists, accidents and smuggling.
Following the bombing of the US embassy in Nairobi in 1998, rescue crews inadvertently destroyed potential evidence. It fell to seismologists at the nearby University of Nairobi to piece together basic, but crucial, information about the size of the bomb and the exact time of the explosion.
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