The Tunguska Event: The Explosion That Flattened 80 Million Trees — and Left No Crater
About 4 min readOn 30 June 1908, something exploded in the sky over central Siberia, flattening 2,150 square kilometres of forest and registering on seismographs across Eurasia. No crater was ever found. No fragment of the object was ever recovered. More than a century later, the Tunguska event is still the largest impact in recorded history — and still partly unexplained.