'This stunning image should scare us’
The event released 10 times the energy produced by the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima in World War II, despite going largely unnoticed.
The 173-kiloton explosion was only 40 per cent as powerful as the Chelyabinsk blast, but it came dangerously close to routes used by major airlines that often fly over the Bering Sea. “It is a scary reminder that there are these terrifyingly large rocks travelling at nearly 100,000 kms per hour when they slam into the Earth,” he told news.com.au. “Anything moving that fast has a lot of energy. This particular meteor had something like 10 times the energy of the Hiroshima bomb.
It released a shockwave that shattered thousands of windows and injured more than 1600 people, and its flash was bright enough to temporarily blind 70 people and cause dozens of skin-peeling sunburns just after dawn in the icy Russian city.
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