The Tunguska Event, occurring on June 30, 1908, involved an airburst explosion of an asteroid approximately 3.8 to 9.7 kilometers above the Tunguska River in Siberia. The explosion released energy ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. In February 2013, a meteor exploded in the sky of the Russian ...

On June 30, 1908, an asteroid flattened an estimated 80 million trees in Siberia over 830 square miles (2,150 square kilometers). Dubbed the Tunguska event, it is considered the biggest asteroid ...

On June 30, 1908, a catastrophic explosion rocked the skies over Eastern Siberia, releasing an energy equivalent to 10–15 megatons of TNT. Known as the Tunguska event, this mysterious occurrence ...

Early in the morning of June 30, 1908, in the Tunguska region of Siberia about 1,000 km (600 miles) north of Irkutsk, an asteroid about 60 meters (200 ft) in diameter entered the Earth’s atmosphere, ...

At 7:17 am on the morning of June 30, 1908, something exploded over Russia. A celestial body disintegrated over the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in Siberia, with a yield comparable to up to 30 megatons ...

The “Tunguska Event” refers to the tremendous explosion on the morning of June 30, 1908, that laid waste to about 2150 square kilometres of Siberia in the region to the north and north-west of Lake ...

Over a century ago, on the morning of the June, 30, 1908, a stupendous explosion occurred over the Tunguska forest of Siberia. The resulting shock waves were detected on seismographs thousands of ...

An enormous explosion occurred approximately 3 to 6 miles (3.8 to 9.7 kilometers) above the Tunguska River area of Siberia on June 30, 1908, when an asteroid entered Earth’s atmosphere and exploded in ...