The impact creates a large
A 250 meter asteroid would result in less than a a 10 meter high tsunami after 60 km of travel, a 500 meter asteroid would result in a 100 meter high wave after 30 km of travel and in a 10 meter high tsunami after 200 km of travel, a 1 km diameter asteroid would run 80 km before the tsunami wave amplitude was less than ...
Can asteroids, meteorites or man-made explosions cause tsunamis? Fortunately, for mankind, it is indeed very rare for a meteorite or an asteroid to reach the earth. Although no documented tsunami has ever been generated by an asteroid impact, the effects of such an event would be disastrous.
If the asteroid hits on land, there would be a huge amount of dust thrown up into the atmosphere. If it hits in water, then there would be an increase in water vapor in the atmosphere. This would result in an increase in rain resulting in landslides and mudslides.
That all depends on the size of the object and where it hits. For modest sizes, landing in a deserted area (middle of Antarctica comes to mind) would be fine. A water hit might create tsunamis that could destroy seaside cities with much loss of life.
When the 6-mile-wide asteroid that led to dinosaur extinction hit Earth 66 million years ago, the impact also triggered a “mega-earthquake” that lasted weeks to months, new evidence suggests.
"An impact in the nearby Atlantic or Pacific oceans would have meant much less vaporised rock – including the deadly gypsum. The cloud would have been less dense and sunlight could still have reached the planet's surface, meaning what happened next might have been avoided.
Description. The 6+ miles wide asteroid that hit Earth 66 million years ago, widely accepted to have wiped out nearly all the dinosaurs and roughly three-quarters of the planet's plant and animal species, also triggered a megatsunami with mile-high waves.
Earth is safe from a devastating asteroid impact for 1,000 years (probably) It's not a complete all-clear for Earth, however. Astronomers have completed a comprehensive examination of large asteroids that zoom near our planet, determining that Earth probably won't be struck by such an object for at least 1,000 years.
It would depend on where the asteroid struck. Unless the asteroid struck in the vicinity of the submarine and if the submarine was at sea submerged there would be no immediate effect on the submarine. Nuclear powered submarines are only limited by the amount of food they can carry.
A gigantic tsunami would be produced, flooding coasts and reaching a height of about 120 metres, about 10 times higher than the Asian tsunami on 26 December 2004. In the film, the tsunami is about 400 metres high.
Most tsunamis are less than 10 feet high when they hit land, but they can reach more than 100 feet high. When a tsunami comes ashore, areas less than 25 feet above sea level and within a mile of the sea will be in the greatest danger. However, tsunamis can surge up to 10 miles inland.
A mega-tsunami is an extremely rare and destructive phenomenon that strikes the world every few thousand years. Unfortunately, as seen in the documentary above, there is a concrete possibility that it will occur again in the near future.
Use t hem to guide you to a safe area. If no maps or signs are available, go to an area 100 feet above sea level or two miles inland, away from the coast. If you cannot get this far, go as high as possible. Every foot inland or upwards can make a difference.
Scientists have predicted that Earth will get warmer by the year 2027 compared to the 19th century and this may change the weather conditions of the world.
An asteroid, named "2019 PDC", was discovered that will come dangerously close to the earth 8 years from now, on April 29, 2027. The space rock is between 330 and 1000 feet in size, somewhere in between the length of 6.5 school buses to the height of two Washington Monuments stacked on top of each other.
An asteroid on a trajectory to impact Earth could not be shot down in the last few minutes or even hours before impact. No known weapon system could stop the mass because of the velocity at which it travels – an average of 12 miles per second.
Although the crater was massive at the time, it has been 66 million years since the asteroid dropped. So today, most of the area is buried under 3,000 feet of limestone. (Bummer.) But even though you can't walk up and see a mammoth hole in the ground, the legacy of the Chicxulub crater is all around.
Now a new study, led by paleoceanographer Molly Range of the University of Michigan, suggests the Chicxulub asteroid thrust up a tsunami so energetic it scoured the seafloor and eroded sediments half a world away. It also dwarfs all tsunamis in recorded history, in energy and size.
It is impossible to predict exactly when or where the next major tsunami will occur. They are very rare events in our limited historical record. But by dating prehistoric tsunami deposits, we can see that major tsunamis happen on average every few hundred years in many coastal regions.
Birds: Birds are the only dinosaurs to survive the mass extinction event 65 million years ago. Frogs & Salamanders: These seemingly delicate amphibians survived the extinction that wiped out larger animals. Lizards: These reptiles, distant relatives of dinosaurs, survived the extinction.
"So the hypothesis that came out of this was the animals that survived the extinction preferentially survived because they were able to dig to get underground, survive that immediate impact period and the fires, the nuclear winter, and just hunker down for a bit."
According to new research, dinosaurs would have lived on Earth for many more years, if a huge asteroid hadn't smashed into the planet and wiped them out.