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Date: 30 June 1908; 116 years ago (): Time: 07:17: Location: Podkamennaya Tunguska River, Yeniseysk Governorate, Russian Empire: Coordinates: 1]: Cause: Probable meteor air burst of small asteroid or comet: Outcome: Flattened 2,150 km 2 (830 sq mi) of forest Devastation to local plants and animals: Deaths: Up to 3 possible [2]: Property damage: A few damaged buildings: The Tunguska event was a ...
It was an 3–5 megaton explosion that occurred near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in Yeniseysk Governorate (now Krasnoyarsk Krai), Russia, on the morning of 30 June 1908. The explosion over the sparsely populated East Siberian taiga flattened an estimated 80 million trees over an area of 2,150 km 2 (830 sq mi) of forest, and eyewitness ...
A 1961 investigation estimated the age of the lake to be at least 5000 years, based on meters-thick silt deposits on the lake bed. [10] However, Luca Gasperini and his co-investigators working in 2008 concluded that the sediments, isotopes, and pollen "suggest that Lake Cheko formed at the time of the Tunguska Event" and thus was only 100 years old.
Upper Tunguska, an old name of the lower course of the Angara, tributary of the Yenisey; Podkamennaya Tunguska ("Stony Tunguska", also: "Middle Tunguska"), tributary of the Yenisey The Tunguska event, a catastrophic explosion over Siberia in 1908; Nizhnyaya Tunguska ("Lower Tunguska"), tributary of the Yenisey; Tunguska (Amur), tributary of the ...
Tunguska is located in the East Siberian taiga ecoregion, which sits between the Yenisei River and Lena River. Its northern border reaches the Arctic Circle, and its southern border reaches 52°N latitude. The dominant vegetation is light coniferous taiga with Dahurian larch (Larix gmelinii) forming the canopy in areas with low snow cover. This ...
The Visitation (Christianity), a Christian feast day commemorating the visit of the Blessed Virgin Mary with Saint Elizabeth as recorded in the Gospel of Luke 1:39–56; The Visitation , a 1982 serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who; The Visitation, a 1999 novel by Frank Peretti
The name Tunguska, a region of eastern Siberia bounded on the west by the Tunguska rivers and on the east by the Pacific Ocean, has its origin from the Tungus people (Evenks). [1] Russian Tungus was likely taken from East Turkic tunguz (literally, 'wild pig, boar', from Old Turkic tonguz ), [ 2 ] although some scholars prefer derivation from ...
Roadside Picnic is set in the aftermath of an extraterrestrial event, the Visitation, which occurred simultaneously in several locations around the Earth over a two-day period. Neither the Visitors themselves nor their means of arrival or departure were ever seen by the local populations, who lived inside the relatively small areas, each a few ...