Tunguska event

air burst of

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The Tunguska event is the largest impact event on Earth in recorded history, though much larger impacts are believed to have occurred in prehistoric times, including the Chicxulub impact that ended the Cretaceous period.

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air burst

when

1908-06-30

Wikidata

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q125953

Wikimedia

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Tunguska_event

Wikipedia

Tunguska event (Wikipedia) The Tunguska event was a large explosion of between 3 and 50 megatons TNT equivalent that occurred near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in Yeniseysk Governorate (now Krasnoyarsk Krai), Russia, on the morning of 30 June 1908.