Tunguska event

When

30 Jun 1908

Kind

Explosion

Coordinates

60.92° N, 101.95° E

Description

powerful explosion that occurred near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River

Deaths

0

Injured

0

Cause

Tunguska meteorite

1908 air burst explosion in Siberia, Russia

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 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.

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• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “June 30 (June 17 OS) – The Tunguska event near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Siberia, Russian Empire, is believed to have been caused by…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Turkish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Tunguska olayı”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “le bolide de la Toungouska produit une explosion estimée à 10 mégatonnes (environ mille fois la puissance de la bombe d’Hiroshima) et détruit de forêts près du…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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• Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “en Siberia (Rusia), 1022 km al norte de la frontera con Mongolia, y 3635 km al noreste de Moscú, se registra una gigantesca explosión (bólido de Tunguska) que…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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