The Tunguska event was a large explosion of between 3 and 50 megatons [2] that occurred near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in Yeniseysk Governorate (now Krasnoyarsk Krai), Russia, on the morning of 30 June 1908. [1][3] The explosion over the sparsely populated East Siberian taiga felled an estimated 80 million trees over an area of 2,150 km 2 ...

On June 30, 1908, an asteroid plunged into Earth’s atmosphere and exploded in the skies over Siberia. Local eyewitnesses in the sparsely populated region reported seeing a fireball and hearing a large explosion. They also reported massive forest fires, and trees blown over for miles.

Jan 15, 2025 · Tunguska event, enormous explosion that occurred at about 7:14 AM on June 30, 1908, at an altitude of 5–10 km (15,000–30,000 feet), flattening some 2,000 square km (500,000 acres) and charring more than 100 square km of pine forest near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in central Siberia, Russia.

Jan 27, 2025 · High-resolution simulations of airburst scenarios have closely matched the observed effects at Tunguska, reinforcing the meteoroid and comet hypotheses. Further studies of the site have also revealed long-term ecological changes, such as the accelerated growth of surviving trees, possibly due to nitrogen enrichment from the explosion.

May 26, 2020 · Known as the Tunguska event, the blast flattened more than 80 million trees in seconds, over an area spanning nearly 800 square miles (2,000 square kilometers) — but left no crater. A meteor...

Rumors, conjecture, and conspiracy theories swirl around the explosion that happened near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in Siberia, Russia, in 1908. Here is what is known for sure: The explosion occurred about 7:13 AM local time on June 30, 1908.

Jun 30, 2024 · On today’s date 116 years ago, the largest asteroid impact in recorded history struck on a warm summer morning in Siberia, Russia. Now, we observe Asteroid Day each year on June 30, on the...

Oct 21, 2024 · Over a century ago, on a quiet morning in an area of Siberia called Tunguska, the sky erupted with a flash brighter than the sun. An explosion shook the ground, leaving those who witnessed it both awestruck and terrified. They had just …

May 29, 2023 · On June 30, 1908, an asteroid flattened an estimated 80 million trees in Siberia over 830 square miles (2,150 square kilometers). Dubbed the Tunguska event, it is considered the biggest...

Jun 30, 2008 · Such is the harrowing testimony of one of the closest eyewitnesses to what scientists call the Tunguska event, the largest impact of a cosmic body to occur on the earth during modern human...