The asteroid flew through the sky at 40 times the speed of sound and crashed into the earth’s crust.
Most of us know that a huge asteroid fell to Earth 66 million years ago, but the consequences of this collision is the most important part.
Scientists in detail described everything that happened immediately after the fall.
In 1991, geologists discovered the fall location: a crater with a diameter of 180 km on the Mexican Yucatan Peninsula. He was not at all obvious, as was underground and part of it even in the ocean.
The asteroid flew through the sky at 40 times the speed of sound and crashed into the earth’s crust. It produced an explosion equivalent to 100 trillion tons of TNT, about 7 billion times more powerful than the bomb at Hiroshima.
Tsunami of between 100 and 300 m in height struck the coast of the Gulf of Mexico and destroyed all the bottom to 500 m deep. The earthquake of a magnitude of 10 points destroyed the coast, and the blast razed all the forests within a radius of thousands of kilometers from the epicenter.
In the end, tons of rocks fell from the sky, destroyed the rest of my life. Within minutes after the impact the world has turned from lush green and bustling from its inhabitants in absolute silence and “nothing”.
The most famous victim of the asteroid that the dinosaurs, although many of them survived in the form of birds. The smoke from the fires along with dust prevented the penetration of sunlight and plunged Earth into a long dark and cold period.
Animals and plants near the epicenter were killed. And there, where some escaped, extremely hot temperatures destroyed all the food, and acid rain has polluted all the water. The vegetation died, then the herbivores had nothing to eat.
As the herbivores died, carnivores also was not enough food. A chain reaction had begun. In this terrible picture calms only that on Earth today there is still a life, reborn after the terrible cataclysm.
