Tunguska event
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tunguska-event-181-15591539
title:
Tunguska event
text:
The Tunguska event was a large explosion of between 3 and 50 megatons that occurred near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in Yeniseysk Governorate, Russia, on the morning of 30 June 1908. The explosion over the sparsely populated East Siberian taiga flattened an estimated 80 million trees over an area of 2,150 km (830 sq mi) of forest, and eyewitness accounts suggest up to three people may have died. The explosion is generally attributed to a meteor air burst, the atmospheric explosion of a ston
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encyclopedia
description:
1908 meteor air burst explosion in Siberia
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event
date created:
2001-09-17T20:53:47Z
date modified:
2024-09-06T08:54:44Z
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