Tunguska River Meteor Explosion

Tunguska River Meteor Explosion

A meteor air burst traveling between 3 and 6 miles above Earth at about 60,000 mph on June 30th, 1908, caused a 12-megaton explosion over the Tunguska River in Russia. The blast flattened approximately 80 million trees over 830 square miles of forest.

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