Now you’ve done it, made me go dig out my copy of “Impact Earth; Ateroids, Commets and Meteoroids, The Growing Threat”, by Austen Atkinson, 1999.;-) News reports said many of the injuries were from flying glass.
Impact Earth, pg. 22. “...[Tungusku] blast...at a height of approximately 8 km....burnt, defoliated and felled trees, and killed thousands of reindeer, across an area of approx. 2,000 sq. km.” “Games of cricket were played in London under an incandescent night sky that was said to be so bright as to allow a newspaper to be read at midnight.” Also an 18 time level of Iridium was found with the GISP2 Greenland ice core project.
IE, pg. 80. The Brazil event occurred in May 1931. An Amazon tribe was so shocked it was preparing mass suicide. A Catholic priest, who is apparently the source of this information, talked them out of it. It is suggested that this air burst was “equivalent to 4-8 Hiroshima sized atomic bombs.” It set afire 1,300 sq. kms. of rainforest. The square root of 1300 is about 36, so rounding out, it was probably an area 40 km. in diameter.
I wonder if Soddom and Gommorah was an air burst event?
This meteor was somewhat horizontal to the earth plane....I wonder what would have happened if it was vertical...would it have been able to make it to the ground?
This meteor was somewhat horizontal to the earth plane....I wonder what would have happened if it was vertical...would it have been able to make it to the ground?
This meteor was somewhat horizontal to the earth plane....I wonder what would have happened if it was vertical...would it have been able to make it to the ground?
That’s the one, 1931; didn’t know about the iridium layer for Tunguska, and it’s a nice detail, I’m going to grab your post text.
Sodom and Gomorrah was probably something besides impact, because in addition to the possible description of a fireball, the entire landscape was altered sometime between their disappearance (or rather, after the tribes departed for Egypt) and the return of the Hebrew tribes. The Jordan River formerly flowed in the Valley of Siddim (the OT explicitly states that what is now the Salt Sea was the Valley of Siddim in the time of Abraham), going north, then bent toward the Med, flowing down the Jezreel. It is now divided by a 600m ridgeline.
http://www.varchive.org/itb/overthrow.htm
http://www.varchive.org/itb/deadsea.htm
http://www.varchive.org/itb/rift.htm