A Little History #2 - Tunguska Event

On June 30th 1908 a mysterious explosion occurred in the skies over Siberia. It was caused by the breakup of a large meteor. However, the meteor never touched earth, there was no impact. The meteor simply burst in mid air approximately 6 miles above ground level. However, the force of the explosion was so powerful that it flattened 830 square miles of forest in Siberia knocking over more than 80 million trees. This force is equivalent to 15 megatons of TNT which is about 1,000 times greater than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. This was called the Tunguska event.

Flattened Trees due to meteor explosion