Tunguska event

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The Tunguska event was a large explosion that occurred on the morning of 30 June [O.S. 17 June] 1908, at around 7:14 KRAT (0:14 UT) in Central Siberia, then part of the Russian Empire. This cataclysm occurred in a remote and sparsely populated region of the taiga, near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River after which it is named. The shock wave knocked several witnesses to the ground, killed at least three people as well as numerous animals, and shattered windows within a 200 km (120 mi) radius. The blast was recorded by various Russian and German seismological stations with a magnitude close to 5 on the Richter scale, while atmospheric waves generated by the shock wave were detected worldwide. From 30 June to 3 July, intense bright nights were observed across western Eurasia over an area of about 12,000,000 km2 (4,600,000 sq mi). Although the Russian press and various correspondents reported the blast in the following days, it was not until 1921 that a first scientific expedition was organized...

Read on Wikipedia · Image Leonid Kulik, the expedition to the Tunguska event, Public domain