Israeli seismologists prepared Monday to carry out a series of powerful underground blasts in the Dead Sea in hopes of gaining insight into predicting earthquakes. The Environment Ministry protested the experiment and requested that a study be conducted on whether the explosions could cause environmental damage.
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