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The Tunguska Event

On the morning of June 30, 1908, a powerful explosion ripped through the remote Siberian wilderness near the Tunguska River. That much we know, but what created the explosion 1,000 times greater than the atomic bomb at Hiroshima that destroyed 80 million trees but left no hole in the ground is still a mystery.

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19 Aug 2024

On the morning of June 30, 1908, a powerful explosion ripped through the remote Siberian wilderness near the Tunguska River. That much we know, but what created the explosion 1,000 times greater than the atomic bomb at Hiroshima that destroyed 80 million trees but left no hole in the ground is still a mystery.


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