* Once the planes collided and exploded in the Twin Towers, each shook violently for about four minutes. The buildings also warped about to change the view that people had their windows. In the next few minutes, the towers turned slightly to the starting position, but not completely.
energy generated by the falls would have been sufficient to supply all the houses and apartments in Miami or Atlanta for a whole hour.
* The impact of landslides was so strong that unleashed waves of tremors in the earth that were detected by meters to 500 miles away.
* According to American engineers who analyzed the violence of the fall of the towers, a cloud of toxic dust, created landslides, lightning struck at least two miles. This is because half of a building is composed of empty space, or air. When was the falls, this huge amount of air displaced was fiercely out of the towers.
* Pieces of the body of a man who was in one of the floors directly hit by the first plane in the north tower, were found five blocks away from the World Trade Center (WTC).
* Of the 2,753 dead, only 289 whole bodies were found in the wreckage of the towers. Altogether, more than 21,800 pieces of bone, cartilage, skin and organs were collected at Ground Zero (where were the WTC buildings). Over 6000 of these fragments are so small they fit in test tubes. A team of doctors working in the recognition of the remains came to catalog up to 200 pieces of the same person.
* About an hour after the attacks, firefighters at the base of the North Tower saw a column of aluminum liquid leaking on the side of the building. The plane was melting. It is believed that the temperature at floors directly hit by the aircraft has reached 1000 ° C.
By: Ana Júlia Rigoni
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